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Chess

Remembering Jonathan Penrose

28 October 2023

9:00 AM

28 October 2023

9:00 AM

The Jonathan Penrose Memorial Chess Challenge, held at Colchester Town Hall on 7 October, was a felicitous tribute to the ten-time British champion, who died in 2021, and would have turned 90 on that very day.

Before it was razed by Boudicca, Colchester was one of the earliest Roman settlements on these isles.

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