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Uncrowned Kings October 20, 2002
Webmaster Phil Hughes has assembled a collection of games & tournament/match records of a number of very strong players. While the concept for the site appeared to be originally intended to focus on "a select group of players who were not granted the opportunity, for various reasons, to play a match for the world title" (Victor Korchnoi - 2746 games, Bent Larsen - 2605 games, Paul Keres - 2011 games, Aron Nimzowitsch - 609 games, Akiba Rubinstein - 946 games) he has added pages related to other fine players of yesteryear. There is a section dedicated to the Hypermoderns (Saviely Tartakower - 1282 games, Richard Réti - 717 games, Ernst Grünfeld - 508 games, and Gyula Breyer - 170 games), and another for British Champions (Howard Staunton - 353 games, Henry Atkins 125 games (is he the forebear of our illustrious editor?), Frederick Yates - 531 games, Sir George Thomas - 605 games, Mir Sultan Khan - 138 games, William Winter - 194 games, C.H.O'D Alexander - 384 games, and Doctor Stefan Fazekas 165 games) along with a page charting every British Champion since 1866. Many of the sections contain images of the players. The game files themselves are zipped files in the .cbv Chessbase format. The site contains a link in their links collection for downloading the free ChessBaseLight program so you can view these files even if you don't have the full blown version of Chessbase. While Hughes doesn't claim to have the definitive collection for these players (although he thinks his collection of 2011 games by Paul Keres may well be complete), he does intend to continue collecting games and adding to the collection until they are complete. There have been three updates this year, the most recent to the collection of Sir George Thomas on September 4th. The site is pretty straightforwardly organized, with easy to find and follow links to the other pages. There isn't a lot of discussion of the players themselves, so it you are looking for biographical information you will need to look elsewhere. Still, the games collections are a valuable resource if you want to study a particular player or are looking for a particular game by one of these great players, and the images are interesting for their historical value. Visit Uncrowned Kings today.
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