Eileen Betsy Tranmer

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Eileen Betsy Tranmer (born May 5, 1910 in Scarborough , † September 26, 1983 in Ticehurst ) was a British musician and chess player . She won the British Women's Chess Championship in 1947, 1949, 1953 and 1961 . In 1950 she was the first British player to hold the title of International Champion .

Life

Tranmer was a professional musician and played clarinet in various orchestras from the 1930s to 1950s , including the Scottish Orchestra, the Edinburgh Concert Society Orchestra, Sadler's Wells Opera and Ballet Orchestra, the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra, the Scarborough Opera Season, and the Covent Garden Opera . For professional reasons she lived temporarily in Scotland . She later had to give up her music career because of progressive hearing loss .

She learned the game of chess from her brother at the age of six, but only began to study the game at the age of 28. In the mid-1940s she was one of the best chess players in the country and represented England in a radio match against the leading chess nation, the Soviet Union , but lost both games to Valentina Borissenko . Tranmer won their first national championship in 1947 and repeated this success in 1949 (with 11 points from 11 games), 1953 and 1961.

In October 1949 she won an international women's tournament in Barcelona with 5.5 points from 7 games after fine evaluation before the tied Chantal Chaudé de Silans .

At the World Chess Championship for women in Moscow in 1949/50 she came in 6th place with 9.5 points from 15 games and was able to achieve a draw against both the tournament winner Lyudmila Rudenko and the second-placed Olga Rubzowa . In 1950 she was one of the first seventeen players to be awarded the title of International Champion by the World Chess Federation FIDE . In the Candidates' tournament for the Women's World Cup in 1953, which took place in Moscow in 1952 , Tranmer came in 7th place with 9 points from 15 games. She managed a victory against the tournament winner and later world champion Jelisaveta Bykowa . On the occasion of a match between England and the Soviet Union in July 1954 in London , Bykowa retaliated with a 2-0 win against Tranmer.

At the 1957 Women's Chess Olympiad , Tranmer played on the second board for England and scored 7 points from 14 games (+3 = 8-3).

She ended her active chess career in the 1960s. In a BBC radio show about chess, she presented some of her games in a humorous way under the title “New discoveries in chess strategy”.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jeremy Gaige: Chess Personalia, Jefferson 2005, p. 429.
  2. ↑ Manchusa Loungsangroong: Women Clarinetists Retrospective: a guide to women clarinetists born before 1930 , Ohio State University 2017, p. 61.
  3. ^ Alan McGowan: Eileen B. Tranmer , Chess Scotland, accessed March 7, 2020.
  4. ^ Harry Golombek : The Encyclopedia of Chess. London 1977, p. 325.
  5. ↑ Anne Sunnucks : The Encyclopaedia of Chess. New York 1970. p. 504.
  6. ^ André Schulz : 70/71 years ago: The radio matches USSR vs USA and vs England , Chessbase, August 11, 2016.
  7. Jump up ↑ Joaquim Travesset: Torneo Internacional de Ajedrez Femenino y Encuentro París-Barcelona 1949 , ajedrez365.com, March 22, 2012.
  8. ↑ Tournament table, mark-weeks.com, accessed on March 7, 2020.
  9. ↑ Tournament table, mark-weeks.com, accessed on March 7, 2020.
  10. ↑ Olimpbase , accessed March 8, 2020.
  11. ↑ Dominic Lawson: Radio play , Standpoint Magazine, December 2013. "[O] ne of the wittiest of the contributors to that sadly erased series was the four times British ladies champion Eileen Tranmer"
  12. ↑ Terrence Tiller (Ed.): Chess Treasury of the Air, Harmondsworth 1966, pp. 187-198.
personal data
SURNAME Tranmer, Eileen Betsy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British chess player and musician
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Scarborough
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1983
Place of death Ticehurst