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Born (as Harold Alexander)

22/08/1904, Sunderland

Died

23/01/1983, Sunderland

Cremated

28/01/1983, Sunderland

 

H. A. Hunnam” was a Sunderland-based chess-player who achieved attention as a strong player with much potential in the late 1920s and the 1930s, but ceased playing chess at the start of the Second World War, and didn’t resume organised chess until about 20 years later, and never fulfilled the potential which had been shown in his youth.

 

The only apparent evidence of a death of an “H. A. Hunnam” is that of a Harold Alexander Hunnam who died in Sunderland on 23/01/1983 and was cremated at Sunderland Crematorium on 28/01/1983.

 

The date of birth given at the time of death of this Harold Alexander Hunnam was 22/08/1904, yet no evidence of a birth in 1904 answering to the name “H. A. Hunnam” is evident.

 

It’s possible, of course, that the given date of birth is wrong.  There was Harold Hunnam whose birth was registered at Sunderland in the third quarter of 1898, but a corresponding death was recorded in the same quarter so this was presumably not the chess-player.  He could have been born abroad, or records could have gone astray, but the reason for the absence of a record of the birth of chess-player “H. A. Hunnam” seems to be that his birth was in fact registered under a different name.

 

By a “deed poll” dated 22/11/1939, a certain “natural born British Subject” known as “Harold Alexander”, a joiner of 2 Fox Street, Sunderland, changed his name legally to “Harold Alexander Hunnam”.  A South Shields player, Joe Watson, who as a schoolboy played for Sunderland YMCA, recalls that chess-player Harry Hunnam, who then also played for Sunderland NALGO (though not actually a Local Government Officer), was in fact a joiner by trade.  The chess-playing Harry Hunnam thus looks like the Harold Alexander who became legally a “Hunnam” on 22/11/1939.  However, if this is indeed the case, then he’d been playing chess for over a decade under the “unofficial” name “H. A. Hunnam”.

 

The 1939 Register found “Harold A. Hunnam”, born 22/08/1904, involved in the building trade, residing at 2 Fox Street with Anna Hunnam.  Thus he was using “Hunnam” (in the Register) before the formal change (deed poll). The date of birth ties in with that given at his death.  Thus he was born Harold Alexander, on 22/08/1904, and such a birth was registered at Sunderland in the fourth quarter of 1904.

 

Ward’s Directory for Sunderland &c, dated 1939, listed Mrs. M. Hunnam at the above-mentioned address, 2 Fox Street, Sunderland.  Thus we have a “Hunnam” connection with the Harold Alexander who added “Hunnam” to his name, though “Mrs. M.” and “Ann” are inconsistent as cohabitees of 2 Fox Street.  “Mrs. M.” would most likely be a Martha Hunnam.

 

Martha Hunnam and Harold Alexander “Hunnam” must have recently arrived at 2 Fox Street, as Ward’s Directory for Sunderland &c, dated 1938, listed “Misses Johnson” at 2 Fox Street, Sunderland.

 

Martha Hunnam (née Martha Bland, born 1856, Deptford, Sunderland) had married Robert Hunnam (born 1855, Sunderland) in 1878.  It is conceivable that Martha Hunnam was Harold Alexander’s grandmother, and one of her son’s was his father.  If that is the case, then two sons fit the bill, Robert Bland Hunnam (born 1878, Sunderland), who in time married in 1909, and George Hunnam (born 1883, Sunderland, baptised 16/05/1883, Sunderland), who seems to have married in 1914.  Equally, some Hunnam household could have taken in Harold Alexander when he was young, without his father having been a Hunnam.  His mother’s surname was presumably Alexander.

 

That all means that chess-player Harold Alexander Hunnam’s birth, on 22/08/1904, was apparently recorded under the name Harold Alexander.  If “H. A. Hunnam” was in fact originally “Harold Alexander”, then answers to the questions of when he adopted the additional “Hunnam”, albeit initially informally, and why, are not clear, but he was certainly known in the wider chess world as “H. A. Hunnam” as early as 1927.

 

There was a Harold Alexander born in Sunderland in the fourth quarter of 1904 who could have been he who became H. A. Hunnam, but, if so, the birth was seemingly not registered for at least 40 days, suggesting possible complications arising from illegitimacy as suggested by the term “natural born”.  The idea that this Harold Alexander became Harold Alexander Hunnam is supported by the lack of a corresponding death record in the name “Harold Alexander!”.

 

There was another Harold Alexander, who was born in 1896, but he appears to have died, aged 72, in 1968, still called Harold Alexander, so presumably ruling him out of being the chess-player, so the 1904 birth remains the most likely.

 

This explanation of the dates of birth and death of chess-player H. A. Hunnam is clouded by a reference in John Wheeler's book Chess in Northumberland (2nd edition, p 136) stating Hunnam was of age 82 at a match played on 13/05/1978 (implying birth in 1895 or 1896).  Further, one who remembers him once told of an incident when Hunnam was described as “well over 80”.  Somebody who was born in 1904 and died in 1983 was never aged 82, let alone “well over 80”.  Wheeler says Hunnam died in the mid-1980s, so agreeing with the 23/01/1983 theory.

 

Non-Chess Life

 

No feasibly corresponding entry for Harold Alexander (Hunnam) is evident in the 1911 census in or near Sunderland, or indeed elsewhere.

 

In 1929 the chess-player H. A. Hunnam went to live in Scotland for a short while, but was back in Sunderland in time for the chess season 1930-31, and it was as a Sunderland chess-player that he became best known.  [BCM]

 

As stated above, Ward’s Directory for Sunderland &c for 1939 listed Mrs. M. Hunnam at 2 Fox Street, Sunderland, this being the address given as that of the Harold Alexander who changed his name on 22/11/1939 to Harold Alexander Hunnam.

 

Martha Hunnam died on 30/11/1940, aged 84, at Monkwearmouth and Southwick Hospital, Sunderland, at which time her residence was given as 80 Coniston Avenue, Sunderland.  Probate was granted to younger son George Hunnam, marine engineer, and John Hudson Meek, engineer’s foreman.  Her estate totalled £276 6s 4d.

 

A Harold A. Hunnam married to Emma Robina Gilbert at Sunderland in 1945.  This was presumably the chess-player, who would no longer be in the flush of youth.  The couple appear to have had no children.  The death of Emma Robina Hunnam was registered in 1972.

 

H. A. Hunnam was seemingly still resident at 2 Fox Street throughout the 1940s, as he is listed there in Wright’s 1952-53 Sunderland Directory.  He was listed at this address on telephone books right up to that dated 1955.

 

In telephone books dated 1956 and 1957 he was listed at 44 Otto Terrace, Sunderland.  Then from 1963, somewhat enigmatically, he was listed at 31 Broad Meadows, Sunderland.  (The 1963 Sunderland Directory listed J. W. Humble and E. Swales at 2 Fox Street.)  Nevertheless, from 1971 to 1981 he was listed as before at 44 Otto Terrace, Sunderland.

 

Although in 1939 he’d been described as a joiner, telephone directories from 1950 to 1963 described him as a builder, though by 1971 the “Bldr.” epithet had been dropped, suggesting he retired at some time from 1963 to 1971 (e.g. 1969).

 

No pre-war directories seem to list H. A. Hunnam under trade headings such as joiner or carpenter, suggesting he had been an employee then.

 

Former Wakefield player John D. Taylor recalls that around 1959 he played against H. A. Hunnam who was playing for Sheffield’s Woodhouse Cup team.  So, why was he in Sheffield?

 

Possible Hunnam-Sheffield Connection

 

There was a William Hunnam who was born in Leeds on 24/12/1882 but by 1911 was living in Sheffield, where the 1911 census recorded him living at 6 Botham Terrace, Brightside, Sheffield, with his wife of barely three months, Mary Elizabeth Hunnam (née Everson or Alderson, 1886, in or near Merthyr Tydfil).  William was employed as an engine fitter.

 

William and Mary had two children, Constance Hunnam (born 1915, Sheffield; died, unmarried, 1944, Wortley, near Sheffield) and Kenneth W Hunnam (born 1927, Sheffield; married Jacqueline A Paget, 1959, Sheffield; son Gregory C. Hunnam, born 1965, Nottingham).

 

In 1961, William and Mary lived at 38 Greystones Crescent, Sheffield, into which they’d moved as the first residents after its being built around 1930/31.  Wife Mary died at Sheffield in 1961, whereupon William evidently moved to live with or near son Gregory, as he died in the Nottingham area in 1963.

 

So, perhaps this William Hunnam was connected in some way with H. A. Hunnam, being perhaps an uncle – or even the father, though his birth in Leeds reduces the probability.  Burgess Rolls for 1959-60 show only William and Mary as voters resident at their home, though the chess-player could have been resident with them at that time though without a vote.

 

One possible reference to H. A. Hunnam in Sheffield is found in Kelly’s Sheffield directory dated 1961, which lists “Alex Hunnam” at 35 Forres Road, Sheffield.  So, was Harold Alexander Hunnam recorded living in Sheffield as “Alex Hunnam”?  It seems highly unlikely, yet no records of birth or death of an “Alex Hunnam” (or “Alexander Hunnam”) are evident, so who was this person?  This record is all the more mysterious as the householder at that address given for 1957 was Willie Troake, then no occupant was listed for 1959, then Alex Hunnam popped up for 1961, but then in 1963 Willie Troake was back in residence there.

 

H. A. Hunnam was seemingly back in Sunderland fairly soon, being absent from the writer’s memory of the Sheffield chess scene from the late 1960s onwards.

 

Chess

 

An illuminating source of information on the earlier phase of H. A. Hunnam’s chess career was provided by an article by the Northumberland Chess Association secretary (in 1932), Robert Pringle Boutland (presumably the one b. 1888, d. 1953), appearing on pp. 209-210 of the 1932 British Chess Magazine.

 

H. A. Hunnam had started playing in the Newcastle & District Chess League ten years earlier (as at about April 1932, hence started about 1922), and since then had been undefeated in the league and county matches.

 

In 1924-25 he won the Newcastle Weekly Chronicle Trophy for the Class 2 championship of Northumberland County Chess Association, so becoming counted as of Class 1.  (No grading system in those days.)

 

The series of Scarborough Whit congresses which ran from 1925 to 1929 was run primarily by Gerald Mutrie Reid (b. 1895/96, Harrogate, d. 1958, York), honorary secretary of Scarborough Chess Club.

 

H. A. Hunnam played in the 1927 event, held at the Pavilion Hotel, Westborough, Scarborough, from Saturday 04/06/1927, to Saturday 11/06/1927.  He finished 1st-4th= in the Major A section (second in rank to the Premier Section, won by Edgar Colle).  The Major A placings were as follows:

 

Place

Player

Points

1‑4

Climenson Charles Yelverton Dawbarn

(Liverpool)

6

1-4

William James Fry

(Southampton)

6

1-4

Harold Alexander Hunnam

(Sunderland)

6

1-4

Francis Percival Wenman

(Northallerton)

6

5

F Schofield

(Leeds)

5

6

Albert Henry Bardsley

(Manchester)

4

7-8

Mrs Edith Martha Holloway

(Bromley)

7-8

Victor Kahn

(Moscow)

9

Alfred William Piniston Tulip *

(Trimdon, Co. Durham)

3

10

Charles Ryshworth Mitchell

(Lancaster)

2

* not to be confused with Albert Walter William Tulip

(Main source Yorkshire Telegraph & Star 04&11&18/06/1927.)

 

Boutland mentioned that Hunnam had scored wins in this event against Wenman, Schofield and Kahn.  (The Major B section featured players weaker than those in Major A.)

 

In the 1928 Scarborough Whit Congress H. A. Hunnam appears to have played in the Premier Reserve section (again second in rank to the Premier, won by William Winter, ahead of Colle), but finished joint next-to-bottom.

 

Boutland goes on to record than in 1929 H. A. Hunnam moved to Glasgow where he played on board 1 for Pollack Chess Club in the Spens Cup, scoring =5, =1, -0.

 

In a web article titled “P.B. Anderson Remembers”, the opinion is expressed that only two players had cropped up who might have challenged the superiority of William Fairhurst in Scottish chess, though neither had stayed around long enough to do so, “One was H.A. Hunham, of Northumberland, and the other was Max Pavey, from Brooklyn, N.Y.  I was a great admirer of both players, . . ”  Editor Alex McGowan points out this should have read “H. A. Hunnam”.  (The slightly erroneous reference to Northumberland will have stemmed from Sunderland-resident Hunnam being a member both of the Newcastle and Sunderland chess clubs, imparting a two-county eligibility shared by a number of players in the area.) (http://www.chessscotland.com/history/andersonmemoirs.htm)

 

Hunnam seems to have been back in the North East, presumably Sunderland, for an inter-county friendly match played on 24/01/1931.

 

For the season 1930-31, the Northern Counties Chess Union tried allowing Northumberland and Durham to compete in the NCCU county-team championship as a combined county team.

 

Hunnam played in at least 4 county matches from January 1931 to March 1932:

 

24/01/1931

Northumberland & Durham v Yorkshire, Gambit Café, Leeds

board 6. H. Hunnam (Durham) ½ ½ F. Schofield

21/03/1931

Lancashire v Northumberland & Durham, NCCU Counties Final, Gambit Café, Leeds

board 5. Dr. Harry Holmes ½ ½ H. Hunnam (Durham)

31/10/1931

Northumberland v Durham (friendly), at Newcastle-upon-Tyne; won 15-13 by Durham.

board 2. H. A. Hunnam (Durham) 1-0 George Sydney Sell (Northumberland)

23/01/1932

Northumberland & Durham v Cheshire, at Leeds; 10‑8 at close of play with 6 adjudications ‑ N&D expected to win.

board 2. H. A. Hunnam (Northumberland) ½ ½ J. J. Taylor

Feb/Mar 1932

Northumberland & Durham v Lancashire; 8-8, Lancashire winning on elimination rule

board 2 H. A. Hunnam (Northumberland) 1-0 Dr. Harry Holmes

 

He’d risen up the county board order, but had yet to displace Charles William Fallows from board 1.

 

Boutland mentioned that in 1931-32, Hunnam’s score playing on board 1 for Sunderland in the Newcastle & District Chess League was +3, =2, -0, and that in county matches he’d drawn against Cheshire and won against Lancashire, agreeing with the above list.

 

In 1931-32 H. A. Hunnam, as a member of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Chess Club, won the Zollner-Viking Trophy for the (Class 1) championship of Northumberland County Chess Association.  (This was what occasioned Boutland’s article in the BCM.)  In the final he beat F. Dovey of Whitley Bay Chess Club.  C. W. Fallows had had to withdraw due to illness.  This appears to have paved the way for Hunnam to participate in the British Championship.

 

The 1932 BCF Championship took place at Whiteley’s, Bayswater, London, the cross-table  being as follows:

 

 

S K

A1

Th

M

Ty

Y

F

J

H

G

A2

Sa

Total

Sultan Khan, Mir

X

1

1

1

1

1

½

0

½

½

1

1

Alexander, Conel Hugh O’Donel

0

X

½

1

0

1

1

1

1

½

1

1

8

Thomas, George Alan

0

½

X

½

1

1

1

0

1

0

1

1

7

Michell, Reginald Pryce

0

0

½

X

1

1

0

1

1

1

½

½

Tylor, Theodore

0

1

0

0

X

0

1

1

1

0

1

1

6

Yates, Fred Dewhirst

0

0

0

0

1

X

0

1

1

1

1

1

6

Fairhurst, William Albert

½

0

0

1

0

1

X

½

0

1

1

½

Jackson, Edward Mackenzie

1

0

1

0

0

0

½

X

0

½

1

1

5

Hunnam, Harold Alexander

½

0

0

0

0

0

1

1

X

1

½

1

5

Golombek, Harry

½

½

1

0

1

0

0

½

0

X

0

1

Alexander, Frederick Forrest Lawrie

0

0

0

½

0

0

0

0

½

1

X

½

Saunders, Harold

0

0

0

½

0

0

½

0

0

0

½

X

 

Thus H. A. Hunnam finished 8th-9th= on 5 out of 12, with a draw against Sultan Khan, and wins against Fairhurst and Golombek.  (Some game scores appended.)

 

Hunnam, it appears, was now a minor celebrity in Sunderland, and on Tuesday, 18/10/1932, billed as the “chess champion of Northumberland and Durham”, he played a 12-board simultaneous display at St. Gabriel's Church Hall, and was unbeaten.

(Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette of 19 October 1932)

 

Hunnam played in the following two county matches for Northumberland:

10/12/1932

Middlesex v Northumberland & Durham,

English County Championship Final, St. Bride’s Institute, London:

board 1. John Harold Morrison 0-1 H. A. Hunnam (playing above Fallows)

14/01/1933

Northumberland & Durham v Lancashire, on 14/01/1933, at York, over 16 boards

board 1. H. A. Hunnam ½ ½ Edmund Spencer

 

Alongside the team Olympiad run by the BCF in Folkestone in June 1933, there was a “General Congress” which consisted of a Premier Tournament (in which Hunnam played) and a Premier Reserve Tournament.  In the 9-round premier tournament the final scores and placings (from Yorkshire Telegraph & Star of 01/07/1933) were as follows:

 

1

Eugene. Alexandrovich Znosko‑Borovsky

(Paris)

2

Dr. A. Blum

(Paris)

8

3

Adrian Garcia Conde *

(London)

4‑5

Harry Golombek

(London)

4-5

Dr (Jacob) Adolf Seitz

(Augsburg)

6

K. H. Bancroft

(Malay Straits)

7

Charles Ambrose Scott Damant

(London)

5

8-9

Harold Alexander Hunnam

(Sunderland)

8-9

Edward Mackenzie Jackson

(Bexhill)

10

Eugene Ernest Colman **

(Malay Straits)

4

11

Arthur Eva ***

(Bramhall, Lancs.)

3

12

Edmund Spencer ****

(Liverpool)

* born Mexico, raised in Liverpool; spent time prior to this in Bradford and Hull

** chess champion of Singapore at the time

*** not to be confused with Alfred Eva of Cheshire

**** donor of the NCCU junior championship trophy

 

“Dr. Blum” is sometimes said to have been “Dr. Oscar Blum”, but reports on Folkestone use “A.” as his initial, where one is used.  (Possibly an error was copied from a single source.)

 

The YT&S did not report round-by-round Premier results, but the Folkestone, Hythe, Sandgate & Cheriton Herald did carry such detailed reports, though not all content is accessible to me.  The following are Hunnam’s round-by round results as far as I can glean:

 

1

H. A. Hunnam

½‑½

E. Spencer

2

A. G. Conde

1‑0

H. A. Hunnam

3

H. A. Hunnam

1*0

E. M. Jackson

4

H. Golombek

½‑½

H. A. Hunnam

5

H. A. Hunnam

1‑0

Arthur Eva

6

H. A. Hunnam

0-1

Dr. A. Seitz

7

E. A. Znosko‑Borovsky or

Dr A Blum

0*1

H. A. Hunnam

8

H. A. Hunnam

0-1

C. A. S. Damant

9

K. H. Bancroft

½‑½

H. A. Hunnam

* pairing and result deduced from other known pairings in given rounds

 

It appears Emmanuel Lasker visited Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1934, as there is record of a consultation game being played on that occasion between “Scott/Hunnam/Bardsley” as White, and “Lasker, Em/Beaty” as Black, with the Lasker-Beaty syndicate winning.  The White players would have been J. E. Scott, H. A. Hunnam and H. Bardsley, while Emmanuel Lasker’s partner will have been G. H. Beaty.  All three local players played for Northumberland against Yorkshire on 24/11/1934 (below).

 

For the season 1934-35, the combined Northumberland & Durham team ceased competing in the NCCU county-team championship, and only Cheshire, Lancashire, Northumberland, and Yorkshire competed that season.  Northumberland was due to play Yorkshire in Newcastle, but Yorkshire could raise only five players prepared to make the journey, so Yorkshire conceded.  Cheshire met Lancashire at Warrington, and the final 8-8 score gave Cheshire victory under the bottom-board elimination rule.  Northumberland beat Cheshire in the final at Leeds, on 17/03/1934, over 16 boards.  After 8 adjudications results were resolved, Northumberland ended winners by 10-6.  [Details not to hand, but Hunnam presumably played.]

 

Hunnam played for Northumberland in the following county matches:

 

24/11/1934

Northumberland v Yorkshire, at Newcastle-upon-Tyne

board 3. H. A. Hunnam 0‑1 C. W. Roberts (Huddersfield)

(Hunnam now below 1. J. E. Scott and 2. C. W. Fallows)

Jan 1935

Lancashire v Northumberland, at York

board 3. H. G Rhodes 1-0 H. A. Hunnam

 

At this time H. A. Hunnam seems to have given up playing in county matches.  Maybe his relative playing strength was waning due to lack of top-level practice, and that prompted him to withdraw.

He was absent from the following:

Lancashire v Northumberland, on 11/01/1936, at York,

Yorkshire v Durham, on 18/01/1936, at Darlington,

Yorkshire v Northumberland, on 14/11/1936, at York,

Lancashire v Durham, on 28/11/1936, at Durham, and various later pre-war matches.

 

He may by now have been cultivating an interest in his future bride, which may have put the brakes on his chess activities.

 

After the war, on 14/12/1946, he played on board 3 for Durham v Northumberland, beating George Sydney Sell, playing below Fred Waldo Yielder (then county champion) on 1, and P. Mason on 2.  This appears to have been something of a one-off.

 

H.A. Hunnam was absent from the following:

24/11/1945

Durham Co. v Tees‑side (post‑war resumption of this  annual match).

16/11/1946

Durham v Tees-side

19/01/1946

Durham away to Yorkshire at Darlington.

30/10/1948

Durham v Tees-side.

22/01/1949

Yorkshire v Durham, Railway Institute, York.

 

By his own admission, H. A. Hunnam had given up chess for 20 years, but whilst he remained a Sunderland-based player, he surfaced briefly, it seems, playing chess in (or for) Sheffield.  John Dudley Taylor, who has played for both Wakefield and Sheffield in the Woodhouse Cup, remembers that while playing for Wakefield against Sheffield he was defeated by H. A. Hunnam, who mentioned he’d given up chess for 20 years, and mentioned some of his past notable results.  This will have been in about 1959, and he must soon have returned to Sunderland, otherwise the present writer would remember him.

 

On 13/05/1978 he played in Northumberland v Durham match organised to commemorate the 100th birthday of George Sydney Sell.  Sell was born 08/05/1878, so 13/05/1978 was the Saturday after his birthday.  H. A. Hunnam played against, and beat, birthday-boy Sell.

 

Paul Bielby remembers (in April 2016) how when he moved to the North East in 1967, he encountered “Harry” Hunnam, commenting as follows:

 

Harry Hunnam was a very senior member of the Sunderland YMCA club when I moved to the NE in '67.  He was well past his best as a player by then, but we played many games together.  He had played against Sultan Khan in the British Championships, and those were the days before Swiss tournaments so he must have been regarded as among the best 12 players in the country at the time.  He won the Silver Knight in 1925.  This seems to have been the nearest thing to a Northumberland/Durham Championship at the time; though games were played with players giving odds!   He won the Northumberland County Championship in 1932, a year after its inception.  I am sure he has won the Durham County Championship in the past.

 

I remember playing in the George Sell Centenary match at Alnwick, when George played Harry on top board.  There is a very blurred photograph of that game in progress in John Wheeler's book Chess in Northumberland which devotes a whole chapter to George Sell. 

 

One final anecdote - I can remember a fellow club member, Stan Graco (now deceased), telling me that he was walking past Harry's house one day, when he was hailed from the rooftop.  There was Harry, well over 80, up on the roof repairing the tiles!

 

Games

 

1) British Championship 1932

 

Harold Alexander v Fred Dewhirst Yates,  Br Ch, London, 1932; round 1

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. Qe2 Be7 6. c3 d6 7. d4 Bd7 8. Bc6 Bc6

9. de5 de5 10. Ne5 Be4 11. f3 Bf5 12. O-O O-O 13. Re1 Re8 14. Qf2 Bd6 15. f4 Ne4

16. Qf1 Bc5 17. Be3 Qd5 18. c4 Be3 19. Re3 Qd4 20. Qe2 f6 21. Nf3 Qb6 22. Kh1 Ng3

23. hg3 Re3 24. Qd2 Rae8 25. Nc3 Rd3 26. Qc2 Rf3 27. Qf5 Rf2 28. Nd5 Qe6

29. Qh5 Qe2 30. Qh3 Qc4 31. Qd7 Qe4 32. Rg1 Qe6

 

Harold Alexander Hunnam v William Albert Fairhurst,  Br Ch, London, 1932, round 2

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O d6 5. d4 Bd7 6. Nc3 Be7 7. Re1 ed4 8. Nd4 O-O

9. Nde2 Re8 10. Ng3 Bf8 11. h3 g6 12. Bg5 h6 13. Be3 Bg7 14. f4 Kh7 15. Qd2 Re7

16. Be2 Ng8 17. Nd5 Re8 18. c4 Nge7 19. Bf3 f5 20. Kh2 Kh8 21. Rad1 fe4 22. Be4 Nf5

23. Nf5 gf5 24. Bb1 Rf8 25. Bf2 Rc8 26. Re2 Rf7 27. Rde1 Bf6 28. b4 Bg7 29. b5 Nb8

30. Ne7 Qf8 31. Ng6 1-0

T. Tylor 1-0 Harold Alexander Hunnam in round 3

 

Harold Alexander Hunnam v C Hugh O'D Alexander Br Ch, London, 1932, round 4

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 d6 5. O-O Nf6 6. c3 b5 7. Bc2 Bg4 8. d4

Qd7 9. Be3 Be7 10. Nbd2 h6 11. Re1 g5 12. Qe2 O-O 13. Rad1 Rae8 14. dxe5 dxe5

15. Nf1 Qc8 16. Bc1 Rd8 17. Ne3 Bc5 18. Nd5 Rd6 19. Be3 Bxe3 20. Qxe3 Qd8 21.

Rd2 Nh5 22. Red1 Kg7 23. h3 Bxf3 24. Qxf3 Nf4 25. Kh2 Nxd5 26. Rxd5 Rxd5 27.

exd5 Ne7 28. Qd3 f5 29. d6 Qxd6 30. Qxd6 cxd6 31. Rxd6 Rf6 32. Rd7 Kf7 33. Rd8

e4 34. Bb3+ Kg6 35. Re8 Nc6 36. Rg8+ Kh7 37. h4 g4 38. h5 Ne5 39. Re8 Nd3 40.

Re7+ Kh8 41. Kg1 Nxb2 42. Bf7 Nd3 43. Bg6 Nf4 44. Re8+ Kg7 45. Re7+ Kg8 46.

Re8+ Kg7 47. Re7+ Kg8 48. Re8+ Rf8 49. Rxf8+ Kxf8 50. Bxf5 Ne2+ 51. Kf1 Nxc3

52. Ke1 g3 53. fxg3 Nxa2 54. Bxe4 Nc3 55. Bb7 a5 56. Kd2 b4 57. Kc2 a4 58. g4

Ne2 59. g5 hxg5 60. Kd2 a3 61. Kc2 Nd4+ 62. Kb1 b3 63. Bd5 a2+ 0-1

 

Reginald P Michell v Harold Alexander Hunnam Br Ch, London, 1932, round 5

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Nbd7 5. e3 Be7 6. Nf3 O-O 7. Rc1 h6 8. Bh4

a6 9. cxd5 exd5 10. Bd3 c6 11. Qc2 Re8 12. O-O Ne4 13. Bxe7 Qxe7 14. Bxe4 dxe4

15. Nd2 Nf6 16. Nc4 Bf5 17. f4 Rad8 18. Nb6 Ng4 19. Rfe1 h5 20. h3 Qh4 21. hxg4

hxg4 22. g3 Qxg3+ 23. Qg2 Qh4 24. Ne2 g3 25. Qxg3 Qh5 26. Kf2 Bg4 27. Rh1 Qf5

28. Rc5 Rd5 29. Nxd5 cxd5 30. Qh4 Kf8 31. Rc7 1-0

 

Harold Alexander Hunnam v Edward Mackenzie Jackson Br Ch, London, 1932, r. 6

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. d4 Nxe4 4. Bd3 d5 5. Nxe5 Be6 6. O-O Bd6 7. f3 Bxe5 8.

dxe5 Nc5 9. c3 Nxd3 10. Qxd3 Qd7 11. f4 g6 12. Be3 Nc6 13. Nd2 Bf5 14. Qb5 O-O

15. a4 Rfe8 16. Nf3 a6 17. Qe2 Na5 18. h3 Nc4 19. Bd4 Rac8 20. Qf2 Qe7 21. g4

Be4 22. Bc5 Qd8 23. Ng5 f5 24. exf6 Qxf6 25. Qh4 Qg7 26. Bd4 Qd7 27. Nxe4 Rxe4

28. Qf6 c5 29. Qh8+ Kf7 30. Qxh7+ Ke8 31. Qg8+ Ke7 32. Qg7+ Ke8 33. Qxg6+ Qf7

34. Qxf7+ Kxf7 35. Be5 Nxe5 36. fxe5+ Ke6 37. Rf6+ Ke7 38. Raf1 Rh8 39. Kg2 Rh7

40. Rb6 Ke8 41. e6 Re3 42. Rf3 d4 43. cxd4 cxd4 44. Rxe3 dxe3 45. Rb3 Rc7 46.

Rc3 e2 47. Kf2 1-0

 

Harry Golombek v Harold Alexander Hunnam Br Ch, London, 1932, round 7

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. c3 d5 4. Qa4 Bd7 5. exd5 Nd4 6. Qd1 Nxf3+ 7. Qxf3 f5 8.

d4 e4 9. Qd1 Nf6 10. c4 Bb4+ 11. Bd2 Bxd2+ 12. Qxd2 O-O 13. Be2 f4 14. Nc3 e3

15. fxe3 fxe3 16. Qxe3 Re8 17. Qf4 Bg4 18. Kd2 Bxe2 19. Nxe2 Re4 20. Qf3 Qe7

21. Rae1 Re8 22. h3 Re3 23. Qf1 Qe4 24. Kc1 Qd3 0-1

 

Harold Alexander Hunnam 1-0 Harold Saunders in round 8

 

George Alan Thomas v Harold Alexander Hunnam Br Ch, London, 1932, round 9

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Bc5 6. c3 O-O 7. Bxc6 dxc6 8.

Nxe5 Nxe4 9. d4 Ba7 10. Qf3 Qd5 11. Re1 f5 12. Nd3 Bd7 13. Bf4 c5 14. dxc5 Bxc5

15. Nxc5 Qxc5 16. Na3 Bc6 17. Qe3 Rae8 18. Rad1 Qa5 19. Qd4 Qa4 20. Qc4+ Qxc4

21. Nxc4 Ba4 22. Rc1 Nf6 23. b3 Bb5 24. Na3 Nd5 25. Be5 Bc6 26. Nc2 Re7 27. c4

Nb6 28. Bf4 Rfe8 29. Rxe7 Rxe7 30. f3 h6 31. h4 g5 32. hxg5 hxg5 33. Bxg5 Rg7

34. f4 Rd7 35. Ne3 Rd2 36. Rc2 Rxc2 37. Nxc2 Be4 38. Nd4 c5 39. Ne2 Kf7 40. Kf2

Nd7 41. Nc3 Bc6 42. g3 Nf8 43. Bd8 Ne6 44. Bb6 Ke7 45. Nd5+ Kd6 46. Nc3 Bh1 47.

Ba7 Kc6 48. Bb8 b5 49. Nd1 b4 50. Be5 Be4 51. Ke3 Bb1 52. Kd2 a5 53. Kc1 Be4

54. Nf2 Bf3 55. Kd2 Kb6 56. Ke3 Bh5 57. Nd3 a4 58. bxa4 Ka5 59. Nb2 Be8 60. g4

fxg4 61. f5 Nf8 62. Kf4 Nd7 63. Bc7+ Ka6 64. Kxg4 Kb7 65. Bd8 Ne5+ 66. Kf4 Nc6

67. Bh4 Kc7 68. Kg5 Kd7 69. Kf6 Nd4 70. Bg3 Kc6 71. Bf2 Ne2 72. Ke7 Bh5 73. f6

Nc3 74. f7 Bxf7 75. Kxf7 Nxa2 76. Kf6 Nc3 77. Ke5 Kb6 78. Be1 Ne2 79. Kd5 Nf4+

80. Kd6 Ne2 81. Bf2 Ka5 82. Bxc5 Nc3 83. Bd4 1-0

 

Harold Alexander Hunnam ½-½ Mir Sultan Khan in round 10

 

Alexander, Frederick Forrest Lawrie ½-½ Harold Alexander Hunnam in round 11

 

2) Consultation game v Emmanuel Lasker

 

White: J. E. Scott, H. A. Hunnam and H. Bardsley,

Black: Emmanuel Lasker, G. H. Beaty.

Newcastle up0on Tyne, 1934

 

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d3 Bc5 5. Nc3 d6 6. h3 Ne7 7. Qe2 Ng6 8. Bd2 c6

9. Bb3 O-O 10. g3 b5 11. Nd1 d5 12. a3 Re8 13. Ba2 a5 14. Bg5 b4 15. a4 Ba6

16. Nd2 Qd6 17. Bxf6 Qxf6 18. Ne3 Bd4 19. O-O-O Ne7 20. Ng4 Qd6 21. f4 f5

22. Nxe5 Bxe5 23. fxe5 Qxe5 24. Qh5 Qxg3 25. Rhg1 Qe5 26. d4 Qxd4 27. exf5 Qf4

28. Rg5 Be2 0-1

 

 

 

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