Anne Sunnucks
Patricia Anne Sunnucks(21 February 1927 – 22 November 2014[1]) was an author and three-timesBritish Women's Chess Champion(1957, 1958, 1964). During her chess career she was always known as Anne Sunnucks.
She was educated atWycombe Abbey School,[2]Buckinghamshire.Although she learned how to playchessat the age of 8, she did not play seriously until the age of 21, when she joined the samechess clubasImre König,an International Master, who became her tutor. By finishing in second place in the 1953 British Women's Championship she became one of three British representatives in the 1954 Western European Zonal, together with Mrs Bruce and Miss Tramner.
Miss Sunnucks earned theWoman International Mastertitle by coming second in the 1954 Western European Zonal. Although this result qualified her to play in the next event in the Women's World Championship Interzonal, she was a Major in theWomen's Royal Army Corpsand the authorities would not allow her to travel to theUSSRwhere the 1955 Women's Candidates tournament was being held. She represented England several times inOlympiadsand team matches, including Great Britain vs. USSR 1954, the Anglo-Dutch match in 1965, and top board for theBritish Chess Federation(BCF) team at the1966 Women's Chess OlympiadatOberhausen.She participated in the Women's World Championship cycle twice more, representing the BCF in the Western European Zonal tournaments of 1963 and 1966. Anne took both the Army and the Combined Services Championships in 1968, and was the only lady to compete in either. Later she became a chess book seller and hosted the local Camberley CC.
Latterly, her work concerned itself with insurance. In the chess world, she was best known for compilingThe Encyclopaedia of Chess(1970, second edition: 1976).
Her married name was Anne Mothersill. She died in a Sussex nursing home where her husband had also resided.[3]
References
[edit]- ^Statutory records
- ^1939 English Census Records
- ^"The chess games of Anne Sunnucks".www.chessgames.com.Retrieved28 September2021.
- Brace, Edward R. (1977),An Illustrated Dictionary of Chess,Hamlyn Publishing Group, p. 275,ISBN1-55521-394-4
- Golombek, Harry(1977), "Sunnucks, Patricia Anne",Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess,Batsford, p. 313,ISBN0-517-53146-1
- Sunnucks, Anne (1970),Encyclopaedia of Chess,New York: St. Martin's Press,ISBN978-0-7091-4697-1,LCCN78106371(ISBN is for the second edition)
External links
[edit]- Patricia Anne Mothersillplayer profile and games atChessgames.com
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