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Jonathan Penrose, OBE (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 and 1969.
Dec 3, 2021 · Jonathan Penrose, a 10-time British champion, grandmaster as well as correspondence grandmaster who famously defeated reigning world champion Mikhail Tal at the 1960 Leipzig Olympiad, has died at the age of 88.
- Peter Doggers
Nov 30, 2021 · BCN remembers GM Dr. Jonathan Penrose OBE who passed away on Tuesday, November 30th, 2021. In the 1971 New Years Honours List Jonathan was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) The citation read “For services to Chess.”
Last Tuesday, 30 November 2021, the English Grandmaster Jonathan Penrose died at the age of 88. In the 1950s and 1960s Penrose was the best British player, and he became internationally famous when he defeated the reigning World Champion Mikhail Tal at the Chess Olympiad in Leipzig 1960.
Dec 11, 2021 · Raymond Keene, a chess player and writer, recounts his encounters with Jonathan Penrose, a British chess legend who died in 2021. He relates how he once saved Penrose from choking and how he lost to him in a team tournament.
Nov 30, 2021 · Thanks to Pete Doggers' obituary being featured here, many on this site will be aware of the passing of G.M. Jonathan Penrose. Someone joked recently along the lines of '10 British titles and his own academic career left him as the under achiever of the family!' Indeed, I have commented elsewhere on the extraordinary Penrose family.
Jonathan Penrose obituary. Record-breaking British chess champion known for his spectacular defeat of the reigning world champion Mikhail Tal in 1960.
