Alan Phillips (chess player), Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetAlan Phillips (chess player)
British chess player
Date of Birth: 28-Oct-1923
Date of Death: 24-Jun-2009
Profession: chess player
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Alan Phillips (chess player)
- Alan Phillips (October 28, 1923 – June 24, 2009) was a chess master who won the British Chess Championship in 1954, along with Leonard Barden.
- He was one of the stars in the Stockport Grammar School chess club started by Richard K.
- Guy in 1939.
- After World War II, he studied at University of Cambridge, where he tied with Peter Swinnerton-Dyer for the university chess championship.
- He is the author of a number of articles and books on chess, including Chess: Sixty years on with Caissa & Friends, Caissa Editions, 2003 The Chess Teacher, Oxford University Press, 1978
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