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2012Gibraltar Chess Festival 10th Anniversary - Set

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Technical details
  • 23.01.2012
  • Stephen Perera
  • Stephen Perera
  • BDT International
  • Offset Lithography
  • 4 Colours
  • 25.73 x 39.56mm
  • 2p, 30p, 75p, £2
About Gibraltar Chess Festival 10th Anniversary

In his book ‘A Century Of British Chess’, Philip Sergeant writes that Britain’s first chess club, Parsloe’s, which opened in 1774, numbered among its early supporters George Eliot, later General Eliot, Governor of Gibraltar and commander of the forces during the Great Siege of 1779-1783. Many famous military men have played chess. Down the ages Gibraltarians, together with other local residents and Gibraltar garrison personnel, have included chess amongst their leisure activities.

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