Victor Brentnall Rush was born in Braintree, but then moved round the country quite a bit. He appears to have started his chess career in Sheffield in the late 1890s. He very nearly died during World War I, but survived, and after the war a non-combative role in the army took him round the world.

In 1908 he managed to beat Emanuel Lasker in a simultaneous display given by the latter, though his victory seems to have been attributable to a gross oversight by Lasker, rather than Victor’s ingenuity. All the same, a win over Lasker is a win over Lasker!

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While in Hong Kong, he played in the Hong Kong Championship of 1935, finishing second, and it was in that competition that he had an amazing finish which got published in the chess press back in England.

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