So so sorry that BL has left us. I had not realised that he had been
quite so ill. He played bad chess and knew it, but wrote a couple of
pieces on the subject one of which is added to a WCh book by Keene.

"Nobody since Alekhine was more on auto-destruct" - Levin on Fischer.

He is quoted in R James/M Fox book published by Faber on the royal
game, and had the Jewish great respect that we sometimes lack in
England. Who but he could recommend concreting over the entire
countryside? I will miss his wit and erudition, pompous though he was,
loveably so. I once saw him walking against the wind, in Oxford,
umberella up, almost at a ninety degree angle to the wind; probably
late for some meeting or speakers function or other. His greatest
picture is in Robin Day's book where the two sages are waiving at each
other, fingers out and questioning.

Frater, sine atque vale..

James Pratt (Basingstoke!)