Peter Hugh Clarke (18 March 1933 – 11 December 2014) was an English chess player who held the titles of FIDE Master, International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster (1980), FIDE International Arbiter (1976) and Chess Olympiad individual silver medal winner (

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Biography

Peter Hugh Clarke started playing chess at the age of six. He twice won the London Boys' Chess Championship (1950, 1951). He participated in the British Chess Championship multiple times, winning five silver medals. Since 1959, Peter Hugh Clarke has worked as a chess journalist for the newspaper ''

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'' for the magazine '' British Chess Magazine''. He is known as a biographer of Mikhail Tal (1961) and Tigran Petrosian (1964). Thanks to his good knowledge of the

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, he translated a book about Vasily Smyslov in 1958. In 1963, he wrote the book ''100 Soviet Chess Miniatures''. Peter Hugh Clarke played for England in the Chess Olympiads: * in 1954, at the second reserve board in the

11th Chess Olympiad The 11th Chess Olympiad ( nl, De 11e Schaakolympiade), organized by the FIDE and comprising an openAlthough commonly referred to as the ''men's division'', this section is open to both male and female players. team tournament, as well as several o ...

in Amsterdam (+2, =2, -3), * in 1956, at the reserve board in the

12th Chess Olympiad The 12th Chess Olympiad (, ''12-ya Shakhmatnaya olimpiada''), organized by the FIDE and comprising an openAlthough commonly referred to as the ''men's division'', this section is open to both male and female players. team tournament, as well as se ...

in Moscow (+7, =5, -0), winning an individual silver medal, * in 1958, at the fourth board in the

13th Chess Olympiad The 13th Chess Olympiad (german: Die 13. Schacholympiade), organized by FIDE and comprising an openAlthough commonly referred to as the ''men's division'', this section is open to both male and female players. team tournament, as well as several o ...

in Munich (+2, =10, -3), * in 1960, at the third board in the

14th Chess Olympiad The 14th Chess Olympiad (german: Die 14. Schacholympiade), organized by Fédération Internationale des Échecs, FIDE and comprising an openAlthough commonly referred to as the ''men's division'', this section is open to both male and female playe ...

in Leipzig (+4, =7, -3), * in 1962, at the second board in the

15th Chess Olympiad The 15th Chess Olympiad ( bg, 15-ата Шахматна олимпиада, ''15-ata Shahmatna olimpiada''), organized by FIDE and comprising an openAlthough commonly referred to as the ''men's division'', this section is open to both male and fe ...

in Varna (+3, =10, -2), * in 1964, at the second board in the

16th Chess Olympiad The 16th Chess Olympiad ( he, אולימפיאדת השחמט ה-16, ''Olimpiada ha-shachmat ha-16''), organized by FIDE and comprising an openAlthough commonly referred to as the ''men's division'', this section is open to both male and female ...

in Tel Aviv (+2, =8, -2), * in 1966, at the first board in the

17th Chess Olympiad The 17th Chess Olympiad ( es, La 17a Olimpíada de ajedrez), organized by FIDE and comprising an openAlthough commonly referred to as the ''men's division'', this section is open to both male and female players. team tournament, as well as severa ...

in Havana (+2, =10, -1), * in 1968, at the third board in the

18th Chess Olympiad The 18th Chess Olympiad ( it, Le 18º Olimpiadi degli scacchi), organized by FIDE and comprising an openAlthough commonly referred to as the ''men's division'', this section is open to both male and female players. team tournament, as well as seve ...

in Lugano (+0, =7, -1). He also played for England in the World Student Team Chess Championship (1954, 1959) and in the Clare Benedict Cup (1960–1961, 1963, 1965, 1967–1968) where he won a team silver medal (1960) and four bronze medals (1961, 1963, 1967, 1968). In later years, Peter Hugh Clarke actively participated in correspondence chess tournaments. In 1977, he won the British Correspondence Chess Championship. Peter Hugh Clarke was awarded the title of International Correspondence Chess Master (IMC) in 1976 and the International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster (GMC) title four years later.

Literature

* Peter Hugh Clarke "Mikhail Tal's Best Games of Chess", Bell, 1961, * Peter Hugh Clarke "Petrosian's Best Games of Chess 1946-1963", G. Bell & Sons, 1971,

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* * * 1933 births 2014 deaths English chess players Chess FIDE Masters Correspondence chess grandmasters Chess Olympiad competitors British chess writers Sportspeople from London Chess arbiters {{England-sport-bio-stub