{"id":965,"date":"2013-05-17T19:43:06","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T18:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/?page_id=965"},"modified":"2020-04-17T15:18:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T14:18:41","slug":"chess-team-playing-newcastle-grammar-school","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/where-are-they-now\/chess-team-playing-newcastle-grammar-school\/","title":{"rendered":"RHS Chess Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flickr-gallery image none\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/chess_500.jpg\" alt=\"RHS Chess Team playing Newcastle Grammar School \" class=\"flickr medium\"\/><\/div>\nThe RHS chess team playing Newcastle Grammar School over the telephone in the Sunday Times National Schools Chess Tournament \u2013 1960-61, would that be right? None of the matches finished \u2013 but we lost on adjudication (I think)!\n<ul>\n \t<li>Alastair MacLean<\/li>\n \t<li>Dennis Wallace<\/li>\n \t<li>Colin Moffat<\/li>\n \t<li>Gordon Burt<\/li>\n \t<li>Keith Moffat (no relation)<\/li>\n \t<li>Gavin Bolus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nAlex \u2018Henry\u2019 Hall is the man with the pipe \u2013 he was head technology teacher and staff member responsible for the chess club.\n\nGeorge Kempsall is the man standing behind Wallace and Moffat. He was himself a chess player and a great advocate and organiser of Edinburgh schools chess \u2013 and a reporter for the Edinburgh (was it the Evening Dispatch or the Evening News). Every chess match was reported with individual results \u2013 so we regularly got our names in the newspaper!\n\nI have forgotten the name of the man on the left \u2013 but he was an associate of George Kempsall\u2019s and likewise a great enthusiast for schools chess.\n\nPosted by Gordon Burt","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RHS chess team playing Newcastle Grammar School over the telephone in the Sunday Times National Schools Chess Tournament \u2013 1960-61, would that be right? None of the matches finished \u2013 but we lost on adjudication (I think)! Alastair MacLean Dennis Wallace Colin Moffat Gordon Burt Keith Moffat (no relation) Gavin Bolus Alex \u2018Henry\u2019 Hall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":273,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"page-templates\/page-sidebar-where.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-965","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3252,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/965\/revisions\/3252"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}