Once upon a time Bedford, traditionally the intellectual centre of Bedfordshire, had to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortunes by conceding considerable chess inferiority to its industrialized half-sister Luton. Blackburne, who trusted historian Tim Harding has recently written about, http://www.amazon.co.uk/Joseph-Henry-Blackburne-Chess-Biography/dp/0786474734/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1446805615&sr=8-1&keywords=tim+harding managed to squeeze in a visit whilst circumnavigating the county and its more established chess hubs (post on his visit to Luton to follow). Here’s an account of his time in Bedford, he puts the current world champion to shame on the blindfold front (please click on the image for a better view).
Allegedly taken a year before his visit to Bedford.
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