LONG CHESS CONTEST
A chess contest which lasted for twenty years has been brought to an end b.v the death-of Mrs. Annie Paton, of Rhyl, in North Wales. She was ninety-three. Since 1920 Mrs. Paton had corresponded weekly with her 50-year-cld nephew, Hugh Paton Harrison, . of Hartlepool. And their boards have shown one move a week, year in, year " out. The matches wero always hotly contested; but Mrs. Paton invariably won in the end. "So I should," she ■used to remark. "I've been playing chess forty sears longer than Hugh
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23773, 28 September 1940, Page 2 (Supplement)
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90LONG CHESS CONTEST New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23773, 28 September 1940, Page 2 (Supplement)
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