Archibald Johnson Neilson

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Archibald Johnson Neilson ( 1871 or 1872 - April 17, 1942 ) was an Irish chess player .

Neilson was column administrator in the Falkirk Herald (1894-1942) and The Linlithgowshire Gazette . He was Honorary Treasurer of the Glasgow Chess Club for at least 34 years.

Neilson, who composed occasionally himself , contributed to the dissemination and research of the Saavedra study by reprinting it repeatedly in the Falkirk Herald , sending it to Creassey Edward C. Tattersall for his anthology A Thousand Endgames (1911), and in 1939 with John Selman as Eyewitness to the events corresponded.

By Thomas Rayner Dawson Neilson was in an obituary in the British Chess Magazine described 1942 as hospitable man. He was an analytical chemist or pharmacist, music critic, church dignitarian, journalist and chess lover.

Neilson's 150 chess books were transferred to the library of the Glasgow Chess Club in 1942.

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  • Harrie Grondijs: No Rook Unturned. A Tour Around the Saavedra Study. The Hague 2004. ISBN 90-74827-52-7 . Pp. 61-62
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SURNAME Neilson, Archibald Johnson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish chess player
DATE OF BIRTH 1871 or 1872
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1942