Chess was a sideline, but Jonathan Penrose was no amateur

Jonathan Penrose was the epitome of that generation of fine British chess players who had all the talent in the world but lacked the time, the wherewithal and perhaps the monomaniacal ambition to scale the highest summits of the game.

Penrose, who died Nov. 30 at the age of 88, ...

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