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Player: Ronald Wilson (Ronnie) Ives (born 10 July 1923, died 13 February 1964)
80 games played 1952-1964 • Download PGN • page last edited
Saturday October 5, 2024 10:18 AM
Games and Chess Career of Ronald Wilson (Ronnie) Ives (born 10 July 1923, Pontefract, died 13 February 1964, Leeds)
Ronnie Ives's wife Jacoba (Cobie) Ives (née Rosema) was also a chess player. She was born in Groningen, Netherlands, on 9 February 1923 and died in London, 20 March 2020.
Ronnie and Cobie had three daughters. I am indebted to Ingrid Ives and the rest of Ronnie and Cobie's family for preserving their chess memorabilia, and then lending it to me for the creation of this page. Its inspiration was Ingrid's thread about her parents at the English Chess Forum. See also, the article on Ronnie & Cobie Ives which Ingrid Ives and I wrote for the July 2023 issue of CHESS Magazine. For this feature I have also drawn on information about Ronnie and Cobie posted at Steve Mann's Yorkshire Chess History website. JS.
Ronnie and Cobie Ives (reproduced by kind permission of the Ives family)
Yorkshire Evening Post Chess Column
Starting on 23 January 1958, Ronnie Ives contributed a weekly chess column to the Yorkshire Evening Post newspaper, featuring a puzzle, a report on chess in Yorkshire and often a game score. It appeared every Thursday. The Ives family kept a scrapbook of these columns, which I have scanned and digitised. The following table has links to these columns.
n.b. columns were numbered from 11 August 1960.
1957/58 Yorkshire Chess Championship Final
| 1957/58 Yorkshire Chess Championship |
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Raymond Brunton Edwards |
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½ | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3½ | |
| 2 | Ronald Wilson Ives | ½ |
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1 | ½ | 0 | 2 | |
| 3 | Boris Vladimirovic Petkevich | 0 | 0 |
|
1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 4 | Kenneth Beaumont | 0 | ½ | 0 |
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1 | 1½ | |
| 5 | Stanley Wilkinson | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
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1 | |
1963/64 British Correspondence Chess Championship
| 1963/64 British Correspondence Chess Championship |
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Peter Brian Dodson |
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½ | 1 | 1 | 1 | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | 1a | - | 7 | |
| 2 | Philip Charles Hoad | ½ |
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½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | 6 | |
| 3 | Slade Milan | 0 | ½ |
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½ | ½ | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1a | - | 5½ | |
| 4 | S Landschaft | 0 | 0 | ½ |
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0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ½a | - | 5 | |
| 5 | William Lewis Roche | 0 | ½ | ½ | 1 |
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1 | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½a | - | 4½ | |
| 6 | James Timperley | ½ | ½ | 1 | 0 | 0 |
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½ | ½ | ½ | 1a | - | 4½ | |
| 7 | John Herbert McLardy | ½ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ½ |
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½ | ½ | 1 | - | 4 | |
| 8 | Michael Philip Furmston | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ |
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½ | ½ | - | 3½ | |
| 9 | G A Little | ½ | 0 | 0 | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ |
|
½a | - | 3 | |
| 10 | Ronald Wilson Ives | 0a | 0 | 0a | ½a | ½a | 0a | 0 | ½ | ½a |
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- | 2 | |
| 11 | T McKelvie (withdrew) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
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w/d | |
Source of crosstable: 1964/65 British Chess Federation Yearbook, p137.
Ronnie Ives died some months into the tournament and his unfinished games were adjudicated as shown by the letter 'a' after the score.
Ronnie Ives: Obituary in CHESS, February 1964, page 185
Ronnie Ives: Obituary in British Chess Magazine, April 1964, page 105
Ronnie Ives Obituary by Stanley Wilkinson
(from his weekly chess column in the Yorkshire Post, 14 March 1964)
1964 Ronnie Ives Obituary - Huddersfield and Holmfirth Examiner - Saturday 14 March 1964 (Edgar Priestley)
(truncated as the game score and annotations are rather long - game given below...)
Other Ives Family Chess Memorabilia
 Bradford Observer - Monday 14 April 1952 |
 Yorkshire Post, Tuesday 15 April 1952  Yorkshire Evening Post - Saturday 12 April 1952 |
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  Bradford Observer, 30 March 1953 |
 April(?) 1953, unidentified newspaper  April(?) 1953, unidentified newspaper |
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 Huddersfield Daily Examiner - Saturday 04 April 1953 |
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| Bradford Observer - Monday 06 April 1953 | ||
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| Bradford Observer - Wednesday 08 April 1953 | ||
 Yorkshire Post, Wednesday 21 April 1954 |
 Yorkshire Post, Monday 19 April 1954  Yorkshire Evening Post, ? April 1954 |
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  Yorkshire Post, Wednesday 21 April 1954, page 5 (Ronnie Ives is immediately behind the boy spectator in the middle) |
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 Undated newspaper cutting - between 1958 and 1964? |
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File Updated
| Date | Notes |
|---|---|
| 14 May 2023 | 75 games played by the Yorkshire chess player and Yorkshire Evening Post chess columnist Ronnie Ives who died aged 40 in 1964. |
| Jan/Feb 2024 | Addition of the Yorkshire Evening Post newspaper columns written by Ronnie Ives. Scanned from scrapbooks created and owned by the Ives family who very kindly loaned them to me for digitisation. |
| 20 March 2024 | Added entries for 28 April 1960, 16 January 1964, 23 January 1964 and 6 February 1964. Added newspaper cuttings. |
| 19 September 2024 | Added entries for 19 October 1961 and 21 December 1961, kindly made available by Wakefield Library and passed on by Ingrid Ives, for which many thanks. |
| 29 September 2024 | The final four missing entries, for 14 June 1962, 23 August 1962, 15 November 1962 and 3 October 1963, have now been found by Steve Mann in the Wakefield Library. Many thanks to Steve for sending them and the staff of the Wakefeld Library. And, of course, thanks to Ingrid Ives and family for making this collection possible in the first place. |
| 5 October 2024 | Amended to include the date of the obituary written by Stan Wilkinson and published in the Yorkshire Post, which Steve Mann passed on to me. Many thanks to Steve. |