50-odd games from 100-odd years of Exeter Chess Club,
with notes, souvenirs and stories
compiled and annotated by its current members

Edited by David Regis and
other members of Exeter Chess Club.

Revised Third Edition

(c) Exeter Chess Club 1998,1999 N.B. [*GIF*] = Huge GIF alert

• Introduction: a "sad waste of brains"?
• Editor's Notes
• 1280-1894: Chess in Exeter before the Club
• 1878-1923: An Exeter Problemist: J Paul Taylor
• 1895: From the Archives
• 1906: Exeter Chess Club before the first war
• 1924: More from the chess columns
• 1919: HV Mallison
• 1923-1945: From the archives
• Characters of the 1950s
• 1960: St. Luke's Chess Club: a new Exeter club and a new World record
• 1964: Denis Gray writes:
• 1966: Richard Hall writes:
• 1970s: Towards a new decade
• 1970s: Tales from a Devon Club
• 1975: En route
• A press release
• Find the continuation
• Brian's Endgame Adventures
• The EXE files
• Roll of Honour
• Black Queen * GIF
• 1996-1997: Just Another Year - The Exeter Chess Club Championship
• Postscript: The cultural politics of chess