About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: People from Blackwell, Derbyshire, People from Bolsover, People from Clowne, People from Shirebrook, People from Tibshelf, People from Whitwell, John Hurt, George H. D. Gossip, Les Jackson, Ray Wilson, Chris Adams, Robert Hendy-Freegard, Thomas Mitchell, Jack Brown, Alf Pope, Peter Fidler, Tom Williams, Baron Williams of Barnburgh, Stan Worthington, Charlie Elliott, Joe Davis, Albert Sykes, Jedediah Buxton, Mark Morris, Bill Leivers, James Stubbings, Terry Adlington, Jack Kirton, Dennis Jones, Barry Lyons, Enid Hattersley, Fred Thelonious Baker, John Galley, Harry Lowe, John Osborne, Walter Keeton, James Simmons, John O'Connor, Sammy Chessell, Frank Lee, Brian Taylor, Andy Higgins, Oscar Fox, Daniel Bottom, Elijah Carrington, Samuel Malthouse, Peter Neale, Ernie England, James Birch, Alf Bennett, William Ellis, Eric Sykes, Derek Hall, Eric Marsh, Jackie Fisher, Joe Ashley, Ernie Smith, Charles Lowe, Samuel Hunt, Walter Stubbings, Lemuel Smith. Excerpt: George Hatfeild Dingley Gossip (December 6, 1841 - May 11, 1907) was a minor American-English chess master and writer. He competed in chess tournaments between 1870 and 1895, playing against most of the world's leading players, but with only modest success. The writer G. H. Diggle calls him "the King of Wooden Spoonists" because he usually finished last in strong tournaments. Gossip was also a noted writer. His treatise The Chess-Player's Manual-A Complete Guide to Chess, a 900-page tome published in 1874 after several years of work, was harshly received by the critics, largely because he had included a number of informal skittles games that he had (atypically) won against stronger players. As a result, Gossip developed a lifelong enmity toward chess critics, whom he often attacked ferociously in his books. However, his 1879 book Theory of the Chess Openings was well ...
