Hope Arthurine Anderson

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Hope Arthurine Anderson (born June 2, 1950 in Port Antonio ; † March 24, 2016 ) was a Jamaican chess player .

Life

Anderson was born the sixth child to Arthur, a police officer, and Iris, a seamstress. She had six brothers and a sister. She attended Titchfield High School and Excelsior High School and impressed her teachers with outstanding math skills. Her family was very musical and so it came about that, under the guidance of Pauline Forrest-Watson , a Jamaican soprano, she completed a vocal training in mezzo-soprano at the Royal School of Music. She was also very fond of playing the piano. Professionally, however, she was oriented differently and first worked as a teacher of mathematics and chemistry, had a master's in computer management and also studied medicine. She has also been a lecturer at the University of the West Indies since 2003 .

chess

Hope A. Anderson came to chess relatively early. As one of the first members of the Jamaica Chess Federation , founded in 1969, she was also very involved here. She was managing director for a while and acted as a team doctor at competitions abroad.

She won the first six Jamaican women's chess championships, 1973, 1976, 1982, 1983, 1984 and 1985. Anderson won her seventh title, after Claire Clarke was victorious in 1986 , at the championship in 1987. In the same year she defeated in the United General Classic Christine Bennett , another very strong Jamaican player in 64 moves. In 1989 she defeated the later candidate master Devlin Sinclair at the Jamaican championships .

For the Jamaican national team she took part in four women's chess Olympiads : 1984 in Thessaloniki , 1986 in Dubai , 1988 in Thessaloniki, 1990 in Novi Sad . Anderson had her highest rating of 2005 from January 1987 to July 1988.

Although she has not played any chess competitions since 1996, she was a great role model and mentor to a large number of Jamaican chess hopes. Among them are WIM Deborah Richards-Porter , who has won the Jamaican women's individual championship ten times.

She was buried in Kingston with great sympathy. A large number of former national team colleagues, such as Listra Clemetson , but also officials of the national chess federation attended the funeral .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Women's Chess Olympiads :: Hope Anderson. In: OlimpBase. Wojciech Bartelski, accessed on May 5, 2017 .
  2. ^ FIDE rating history :: Anderson, H. In: OlimpBase. Wojciech Bartelski, accessed on May 5, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Anderson, Hope Arthurine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Anderson, Hope
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jamaican chess player
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Port Antonio , Jamaica
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 2016