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20/07/2018 P. C. Gibbs Retires from MCCU Presidency
YCA Honorary Life Member Bradford-born Peter Campbell Gibbs has retired as President of the Midland Counties Chess Union having served in the post for nine years. He turned 83 years of age earlier this year.
Peter finished first equal in the British Under 18 Championship back in 1952. As a 26-year-old he played for England in the 7th Student Olympiad in Leningrad (as was), in 1960, from which event there exists a photograph of him in play, as Black, against a 23-year old USSR player, a certain Boris Spassky, who had been a grandmaster since 1956. Since the early 1960s he has been resident in the Midlands, now living at Burbage, Hinckley, Leics. He is still active as a player, as well as being an arbiter and a coach. In about 1975 he started annually giving a chess display to schoolchildren. (2014 saw the 40th such display.) He was a recipient of a BCF President’s award in 1988. As a player, his main club seems to be Nuneaton.
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