Frank Parr

[3] Parr won the Hastings Premier in 1939/1940 with a score of 6/7, including five wins and two draws.

[1][2] Parr played in 25 British Chess Championships from 1936 to 1991, compiling an overall score of 134½/275.

He made his first appearance in the championship in 1936, taking fifth place with 6/11 including a victory over George Alan Thomas.

In his second appearance in 1955 he scored 7½ with wins over Robert Wade and Jonathan Penrose.

Although this score would have secured first place in most years, he took second a half point behind Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander despite having won their individual encounter in round eight.

[2] Parr was a traveling reserve member of the English team for the 1937 Anglo–Dutch match in Amsterdam, but he did not play.

[2] He never held any FIDE or British Chess Federation titles.

[5] After a long illness Parr died in Epsom on 28 December 2003, the opening day of the Hastings International Chess Congress.

[2] The British Federation for Correspondence Chess introduced a Frank Parr Memorial Tournament in 2005.

Held alongside it was the David Parr Memorial, dedicated to Frank's eldest son, another fine chess player who also died in 2003.

The following game is his best-known, and he annotated it for British Chess Magazine.

He had a tapestry made of one of the game's key positions, which he hung on the wall of his living room.

Reinfeld and Chernev, in their Fireside Book of Chess, eulogize—"In the opinion of the writers, Parr's masterpiece has well-founded claims to being considered the finest attacking game of all time."

After the final move they exclaim "One of the greatest combinative games on record!"

Frank Parr vs. George Wheatcroft, City of London Chess Club Championship 1938, Neo-Grünfeld Defence[7][8] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. g3 Bg7 4.