Owen Hindle (born 14 March 1940) is an

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and a

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individual bronze medal winner (

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Biography

Owen Hindle was one of England's leading chess players in the 1960s. He played in the

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several times. In this tournament, Owen Hindle achieved the best result in 1963, in Bath, when he shared 4th and 5th place (

Jonathan Penrose Jonathan Penrose, (7 October 1933 – 30 November 2021) was an English chess player, who held the titles Grandmaster (1993) and International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster (1983). He won the British Chess Championship ten times between 1958 ...

won the tournament). Owen Hindle also regularly participated in the

Hastings International Chess Congress The Hastings International Chess Congress is an annual chess tournament which takes place in Hastings, England, around the turn of the year. The main event is the Hastings Premier tournament, which was traditionally a 10 to 16 player round-robin t ...

tournaments, where in 1965 he beat

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, one of the strongest grandmasters at the time. In 1967, in

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, he participated in the World Chess Championship Zonal Tournament. Owen Hindle played for England in the

s: * in 1964, at the first reserve board in the 16th Chess Olympiad in

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(+9, =4, -3), winning an individual bronze medal, * in 1966, at the first reserve board in the 17th Chess Olympiad in

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(+2, =5, -1). Owen Hindle played for England in the

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s: * in 1963, at the fourth board in the 10th Clare Benedict Chess Cup in Lucerne (+1, =4, -0), winning a team bronze medal, * in 1965, at the third board in the 12th Clare Benedict Chess Cup in

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(+0, =4, -1), * in 1966, at the third board in the 13th Clare Benedict Chess Cup in

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(+0, =1, -4). Owen Hindle is also known as a chess journalist and historian. From 1960 to 1963, he worked for London's chess magazine ''Chess''. He has written several books on chess and the history of chess, including books about English chess players

Joseph Henry Blackburne Joseph Henry Blackburne (10 December 1841 – 1 September 1924) was a British chess player. Nicknamed "The Black Death", he dominated the British scene during the latter part of the 19th century. Blackburne learned the game at the relatively late ...

and

Cecil Valentine De Vere Cecil Valentine De Vere (14 February 1846 in London – 9 February 1875 in Torquay) was the winner of the first official British Chess Championship in 1866. He was born Valentine John Cecil De Vere Mathews in 1846. It is likely that he was th ...

. Owen Hindle is the author of a study on the history of

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and

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chess clubs. In 1968 Owen Hindle married the Scottish chess master Kathleen Patterson.Chess Scotland
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Literature

* Owen Hindle. Further Steps in Chess. 1968. * Owen Hindle. J.H. Blackburne: the Final Years (Chess masters). 1998. * Robert H. Jones, Owen Hindle. The English Morphy?: The Life and Games of Cecil De Vere, First British Chess Champion. 2001.

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