Peter Clarke (chess player)

Peter Hugh Clarke (18 March 1933 – 11 December 2014) was an English chess player, who hold titles FIDE master (FM) and International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster (1980), FIDE International arbiter (1976), Chess Olympiad individual silver medal winner (1956).

Peter Hugh Clarke
CountryEngland
Born(1933-03-18)18 March 1933
London, England
Died11 December 2014(2014-12-11) (aged 81)
Cornwall, England
TitleInternational Correspondence Chess Grandmaster (1980)

Biography

Peter Hugh Clarke started playing chess at the age of six. He twice won the London Boys' Chess Championship (1950, 1951). He was British Chess Championship multiplier participant where five times won silver medal.[1][2]

Since 1959, Peter Hugh Clarke has been working as a chess journalist in the newspaper Sunday Times and magazine British Chess Magazine. He is known as the biographical book's author of Mikhail Tal (1961) and Tigran Petrosian (1964). Thanks to his good knowledge of Russian language, he translated the book about Vasily Smyslov in 1958. In 1963 he wrote a book 100 Soviet Chess Miniatures.[3]

Peter Hugh Clarke played for England in the Chess Olympiads:[4]

Also he played for England in the World Student Team Chess Championship (1954, 1959)[5] and in the Clare Benedict Chess Cup (1960-1961, 1963, 1965, 1967-1968) where he won team silver medal (1960) and 4 bronze medals (1961, 1963, 1967, 1968).[6]

In later years, Peter Hugh Clarke active participated in correspondence chess tournaments. In 1977, he won British Correspondence Chess Championship. In 1976, Peter Hugh Clarke was awarded the International Correspondence Chess Master (IMC) title and received the International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster (GMC) title four years later.

Literature

  • Peter Hugh Clarke "Mikhail Tal's Best Games of Chess", Bell, 1961, ISBN 9780713502046
  • Peter Hugh Clarke "Petrosian's Best Games of Chess 1946-1963", G. Bell & Sons, 1971, ISBN 9780713502060

References


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