Lockdown and subsequent restrictions have given me time to browse
the dustier reaches of my chess library, including Napier's Paul
Morphy and the Golden Age of Chess, a compilation of his
three booklets Amenities and Background of Chess, each a
selection of 100 lightly annotated games to amuse and provide an
educative ABC. Horowitz edited this combined work and commented:
I started coaching adults at the Exeter club in 1993, about the same time as Alan Maynard started up the current incarnation of Exeter Junior Chess Club. I went looking for some useful resources for teaching, and there were some, but mostly I became a magpie, picking shiny bits out of various good books. I did find it irksome that so many books repeated familiar examples, and I thought I could at least pull those out for my colleagues, and that became the core of the Canon. I found particularly useful:
* Tony Gillam - Simple Chess Tactics and Simple Checkmates
Some more time at home recently has meant I have been able to do something I've been meaning to do for ages, which is tidy up my database of teaching games, which I call the Canon.
Sorry if you have an earlier version and have had to tidy it yourself.
Graham Bolt 196 (B) ½-½ Paul Brooks 170 (W)
Dave Regis 166 (W) ½-½ Alan Brusey 158 (B)
Sean Pope 140 ½-½ Vignesh Ramesh
Tony Hart 135 0-1 Andrew Kinder
John Guard 130 ½-½ John Allen
Will Marjoram 128 ½-½ Jacquie Barber-Lafon
John Maloney 108 0-1 Mike Hussey
Brian Aldwin 88 0-1 Z Grophulous
Exeter 6-0 Newton Abbot
1 Tim PAULDEN (W) 1-0 Trefor THYNNE (B)
2 Paul O'NEILL (B) 1-0 Charles HOWARD (W)
3 Lorenz HARTMANN 1-0 Wilf TAYLOR
4 Chris LOWE 1-0 John ALLEN
5 Leif HAFSTAD 1-0 Jacquie BARBER-LAFON
6 Dave REGIS 1-0 Mike HUSSEY
Newton Abbot weren't able to field their strongest team against an Exeter home side who were looking to put the title beyond doubt.
Mike Hussey dropped a Bishop very early but attacked strongly until Dave found a goalmouth save.
