Arthur John Mackenzie

Arthur John Mackenzie (5 February 1871 – 21 August 1949) was a Scottish chess player, three-times Scottish Chess Championship winner (1908, 1909, 1913).

Arthur John Mackenzie
CountryUnited Kingdom
Born(1871-02-05)5 February 1871
Birmingham, England
Died21 August 1949(1949-08-21) (aged 78)

Biography

Although born in Birmingham, Arthur John Mackenzie was associated with chess in Scotland because of his family background. He participated in Scottish Chess Championship from 1906 to 1928 and won this chess tournament on three occasions: 1908 (he scored 7/7),[1] 1909[2] and 1913.[3] He was Warwickshire County Chess Champion in 1931. Arthur John Mackenzie was multiple participant of the Hastings International Chess Congress minor tournaments.

Arthur John Mackenzie played for Scotland in the Chess Olympiad:[4]

Arthur John Mackenzie was very active in chess life organisation. He was one of the founders of the Birmingham and District Chess League in 1897, the Midland Counties Chess Association (later Union), also in 1897, and the British Chess Federation in 1904. Arthur John Mackenzie serving on British Chess Federation Executive from foundation to the 1930s. He was a controller at the famous Nottingham 1936 chess tournament, and he was the British delegate to the FIDE council at Stockholm 1937.

Mackenzie was the chess columnist for the Birmingham's Daily Post (from 1896 to 1948) and The Glasgow Herald.[5]

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gollark: This is ridiculous. They're ruining perfectly good prefixes.
gollark: This is impressively good. I want to arbitrarily use CLIP for something now, but I have no actual usecase.
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References
  1. "Chess Scotland". www.chessscotland.com.
  2. "Chess Scotland". www.chessscotland.com.
  3. "Chess Scotland". www.chessscotland.com.
  4. "OlimpBase :: Men's Chess Olympiads :: Arthur John Mackenzie". www.olimpbase.org.
  5. "Chess Scotland". www.chessscotland.com.
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