LONG CHESS CONTEST
A chess contest which lasted for twenty years has been brought to an end by 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-old nephew, Hugh Paton Harrison, of Hartlepool. And their boards have shown one move a week, year in, year out. The matches were always hotly contested; but Mrs Paton invariably won in the end. “So I should,” she used to remark. “I’ve been playing chess forty years longer than Hugh has.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21784, 14 October 1940, Page 2
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92LONG CHESS CONTEST Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21784, 14 October 1940, Page 2
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