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'''John Boyd Dunlop''' (born 10 October 1886 in [[Dunedin]]) was a [[chess|chess player]] from [[New Zealand]]. He won the [[New Zealand Chess Championship]] in 1920–21 (after a play-off), 1921–22, 1922–23 (after a play-off), 1933–34 (after a play-off), 1938–39 and 1939–40.
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| death_place = [[Auckland]], New Zealand
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| relatives = {{ubl|[[Bonar Dunlop]] (nephew)|[[Jocelyn Ryburn]] (niece)|[[Shona Dunlop MacTavish]] (niece)}}
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'''John Boyd Dunlop''' (30 October 1884 – 29 October 1973) was a New Zealand [[chess|chess player]]. He won the [[New Zealand Chess Championship]] six times between 1921 and 1940, and was the first player to win the title in three consecutive years.


== Sources ==
==Early life and family==
Born in [[Dundee]], Scotland, on 30 October 1884, Dunlop was the son of the Reverend John Dunlop and Jane Dunlop (née Wallace).<ref>{{citation |title=1884 Dunlop, John (Statutory registers Births 282/2 805) |publisher=National Records of Scotland}}</ref><ref name="Death reg">{{cite web |url=https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/search/search?path=%2FqueryEntry.m%3Ftype%3Ddeaths |title=Death search: registration number 1973/38361 |website=Births, deaths & marriages online |publisher=Department of Internal Affairs |access-date=5 March 2024}}</ref> His father was a Presbyterian minister and when he was appointed to the chair of theology at Theological Hall, [[Dunedin]], in 1887, the family migrated to New Zealand.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD18870117.2.8 |title=untitled |date=17 January 1887 |work=[[The Star (Dunedin)|Evening Star]] |issue=7112 |page=2 |access-date=5 March 2024 |via=[[PapersPast]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HBTRIB19210105.2.57 |title=Dunlop wins |date=5 January 1921 |work=[[Hawke's Bay Tribune]] |volume=11 |issue=17 |page=5 |access-date=5 March 2024 |via=[[PapersPast]]}}</ref>
* [http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=89828 John Boyd Dunlop] on [[ChessGames.com]]
* See additional sources at [[New Zealand Chess Championship#References]]


Dunlop undertook dental studies in London, and while there he learned to play chess, before returning to New Zealand in 1906,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/FS19210106.2.49 |title=Dunlop wins the chess championship |date=6 January 1921 |work=Feilding Star |volume=17 |issue=4185 |page=5 |access-date=5 March 2024 |via=[[PapersPast]]}}</ref> and going into practice as a dentist in Dunedin.<ref name="Otago Witness 1911">{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/OW19110628.2.192 |title=Chess |first=F. J. |last=Mouat |date=28 June 1911 |work=[[Otago Witness]] |issue=2989 |page=69 |access-date=5 March 2024 |via=[[PapersPast]]}}</ref> He moved to [[Nelson, New Zealand|Nelson]] in mid 1911, where he went into practice with G. F. Dodds.<ref name="Otago Witness 1911"/><ref>{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/OW19110621.2.271 |title=Chess |first=F. J. |last=Mouat |date=21 June 1911 |work=[[Otago Witness]] |issue=2988 |page=92 |access-date=5 March 2024 |via=[[PapersPast]]}}</ref>
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On 26 February 1912, Dunlop married Ailsa Vallange at St John's Church, in the Dunedin suburb of [[Roslyn, Dunedin|Roslyn]].<ref name="Otago Witness 1912">{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/OW19120306.2.300 |title=Table talk |date=6 March 1912 |work=[[Otago Witness]] |issue=3025 |page=71 |access-date=5 March 2024 |via=[[PapersPast]]}}</ref> The couple made their first home together in Nelson, before moving to [[Oamaru]] later in 1912.<ref name="Otago Witness 1912"/><ref name="Manawatu Times 1921"/> They returned to live in Dunedin in 1928.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD19280329.2.99 |title=Personal |date=29 March 1928 |work=[[The Star (Dunedin)|Evening Star]] |issue=19828 |page=11 |access-date=15 March 2024 |via=[[PapersPast]]}}</ref>


==Chess==
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Dunlop joined the Otago Chess Club in Dunedin in about 1908,<ref name="Otago Witness 1911"/> and won the Otago junior chess championship in 1909.<ref name="Manawatu Times 1921">{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MT19210106.2.36 |title=Dunlop chess champion |date=6 January 1921 |work=Manawatu Times |volume=42 |issue=1726 |page=5 |access-date=5 March 2024 |via=[[PapersPast]]}}</ref> He won the senior provincial championship the following year, and finished fourth at the 1911 New Zealand championship.<ref name="Manawatu Times 1921"/>

Dunlop joined the Oamaru Chess Club in 1912.<ref name="Manawatu Times 1921"/> He was Oamaru club champion from 1913 to 1917.<ref name="Evening Star 1939">{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD19390121.2.159 |title=Chess |date=21 January 1939 |work=[[The Star (Dunedin)|Evening Star]] |issue=23171 |page=22 |access-date=5 March 2024 |via=[[PapersPast]]}}</ref>

Dunlop entered the 1914 national chess championship, but withdrew before the start of the tournament because of a family illness.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZTIM19131222.2.7 |title=Chess |date=22 December 1913 |work=[[New Zealand Times]] |volume=37 |issue=8610 |page=2 |access-date=5 March 2024 |via=[[PapersPast]]}}</ref> He next competed at the New Zealand championship in 1921, and won the tournament after a play-off.<ref name="Manawatu Times 1921"/><ref name="Evening Star 1939"/><ref name="Chessgames">{{cite web |url=https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=89828 |title=John Boyd Dunlop |website=Chessgames.com |access-date=5 March 2024}}</ref> He won the national championship the following year, and again in 1923, after a playoff, becoming the first person to win the title three times in a row.<ref name="Evening Star 1939"/><ref name="Chessgames"/><ref name="Poison Pawn">{{cite web |url=http://www.poisonpawn.co.nz/chess/a-history-of-new-zealand-chess-championships/ |title=The New Zealand championships: a brief history |first=Peter |last=Stuart |website=Poison Pawn |date=19 December 2012 |access-date=5 March 2024}}</ref> After winning his third consecutive national title, Dunlop's play was described in a newspaper report: <blockquote>"He looks very deeply into the complicated positions arising from time to time, and rarely fails to take an immediate advantage of the slightest slip by an opponent. His moves are well timed, and frequently an admirable combination of attack and defence. His play is at all times attractive, and he is
in every way a worthy champion."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/128114087 |title=New Zealand sport |date=24 January 1923 |work=[[The Referee (newspaper)|The Referee]] |page=16 |access-date=13 March 2024 |via=[[Trove]]}}</ref></blockquote>

Dunlop was fifth at the 1924 New Zealand national championship, third in 1926, and third in 1927.<ref name="Evening Star 1939"/> He next competed at the national tournament in 1934, winning the event in a playoff.<ref name="Evening Star 1939"/><ref>{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MT19340402.2.36 |title=Dunlop wins chess championship play-off |date=2 April 1934 |work=Manawatu Times |volume=59 |issue=7428 |page=6 |access-date=5 March 2024 |via=[[PapersPast]]}}</ref> The following year, Dunlop placed fourth at the national championship, and then in 1938 he was runner-up.<ref name="Evening Star 1939"/> He competed at two further New Zealand national championships, in 1939 and 1940, winning both.<ref name="Evening Star 1939"/><ref name="Poison Pawn"/> In all, Dunlop contested 12 New Zealand championships, winning on six occasions.<ref name="Poison Pawn"/>

Dunlop played in the 1933 [[Australian Chess Championship]] in [[Sydney]], but was on poor form and was never in contention for the title.<ref name="Evening Star 1939"/><ref>{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WC19451019.2.77 |title=Chess champion |date=19 October 1945 |work=[[Whanganui Chronicle|Wanganui Chronicle]] |volume=89 |issue=247 |page=6 |access-date=5 March 2024 |via=[[PapersPast]]}}</ref>

In 1955, Dunlop was awarded the title of New Zealand chess master by the New Zealand Chess Association.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://newzealandchess.co.nz/nzchessmag/pdfs/1979-10.pdf |title=N.Z. master title researched |page=115 |first=Peter |last=Stuart |journal=New Zealand Chess |volume=5 |issue=5 |date=October 1979 |access-date=15 March 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/1966/27148/print |chapter=Chess |first=Conrad Brice |last=Newick |title=An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand |year=1966 |editor-first=A. H. |editor-last=McLintock |editor-link=Alexander Hare McLintock |access-date=15 March 2024}}</ref>

==Later life and death==
Dunlop was predeceased by his wife, Ailsa Dunlop, in 1955.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://hastingsdc.discovereverafter.com/profile/33702490 |title=Ailsa Eleanor Ormond Dunlop |publisher=Hastings District Council |access-date=5 March 2024}}</ref> He died in [[Auckland]] on 29 October 1973, at the age of 88.<ref name="Death reg"/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE40166012 |title=Dunlop, John Boyd – Auckland – retired |publisher=Archives New Zealand |access-date=5 March 2024}}</ref>

==References==
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Latest revision as of 11:33, 30 April 2024

John Dunlop
Dunlop in 1921
Personal information
Full nameJohn Boyd Dunlop
Born(1884-10-30)30 October 1884
Dundee, Scotland
Died29 October 1973(1973-10-29) (aged 88)
Auckland, New Zealand
OccupationDentist
Spouse
Ailsa Eleanor Ormond Vallange
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(m. 1912; died 1955)​
Relatives
Sport
CountryNew Zealand
SportChess
Achievements and titles
National finalsChampion: 1921, 1922, 1923, 1934, 1939, 1940

John Boyd Dunlop (30 October 1884 – 29 October 1973) was a New Zealand chess player. He won the New Zealand Chess Championship six times between 1921 and 1940, and was the first player to win the title in three consecutive years.

Early life and family[edit]

Born in Dundee, Scotland, on 30 October 1884, Dunlop was the son of the Reverend John Dunlop and Jane Dunlop (née Wallace).[1][2] His father was a Presbyterian minister and when he was appointed to the chair of theology at Theological Hall, Dunedin, in 1887, the family migrated to New Zealand.[3][4]

Dunlop undertook dental studies in London, and while there he learned to play chess, before returning to New Zealand in 1906,[5] and going into practice as a dentist in Dunedin.[6] He moved to Nelson in mid 1911, where he went into practice with G. F. Dodds.[6][7]

On 26 February 1912, Dunlop married Ailsa Vallange at St John's Church, in the Dunedin suburb of Roslyn.[8] The couple made their first home together in Nelson, before moving to Oamaru later in 1912.[8][9] They returned to live in Dunedin in 1928.[10]

Chess[edit]

Dunlop joined the Otago Chess Club in Dunedin in about 1908,[6] and won the Otago junior chess championship in 1909.[9] He won the senior provincial championship the following year, and finished fourth at the 1911 New Zealand championship.[9]

Dunlop joined the Oamaru Chess Club in 1912.[9] He was Oamaru club champion from 1913 to 1917.[11]

Dunlop entered the 1914 national chess championship, but withdrew before the start of the tournament because of a family illness.[12] He next competed at the New Zealand championship in 1921, and won the tournament after a play-off.[9][11][13] He won the national championship the following year, and again in 1923, after a playoff, becoming the first person to win the title three times in a row.[11][13][14] After winning his third consecutive national title, Dunlop's play was described in a newspaper report:

"He looks very deeply into the complicated positions arising from time to time, and rarely fails to take an immediate advantage of the slightest slip by an opponent. His moves are well timed, and frequently an admirable combination of attack and defence. His play is at all times attractive, and he is in every way a worthy champion."[15]

Dunlop was fifth at the 1924 New Zealand national championship, third in 1926, and third in 1927.[11] He next competed at the national tournament in 1934, winning the event in a playoff.[11][16] The following year, Dunlop placed fourth at the national championship, and then in 1938 he was runner-up.[11] He competed at two further New Zealand national championships, in 1939 and 1940, winning both.[11][14] In all, Dunlop contested 12 New Zealand championships, winning on six occasions.[14]

Dunlop played in the 1933 Australian Chess Championship in Sydney, but was on poor form and was never in contention for the title.[11][17]

In 1955, Dunlop was awarded the title of New Zealand chess master by the New Zealand Chess Association.[18][19]

Later life and death[edit]

Dunlop was predeceased by his wife, Ailsa Dunlop, in 1955.[20] He died in Auckland on 29 October 1973, at the age of 88.[2][21]

References[edit]

  1. ^ 1884 Dunlop, John (Statutory registers Births 282/2 805), National Records of Scotland
  2. ^ a b "Death search: registration number 1973/38361". Births, deaths & marriages online. Department of Internal Affairs. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
  3. ^ "untitled". Evening Star. No. 7112. 17 January 1887. p. 2. Retrieved 5 March 2024 – via PapersPast.
  4. ^ "Dunlop wins". Hawke's Bay Tribune. Vol. 11, no. 17. 5 January 1921. p. 5. Retrieved 5 March 2024 – via PapersPast.
  5. ^ "Dunlop wins the chess championship". Feilding Star. Vol. 17, no. 4185. 6 January 1921. p. 5. Retrieved 5 March 2024 – via PapersPast.
  6. ^ a b c Mouat, F. J. (28 June 1911). "Chess". Otago Witness. No. 2989. p. 69. Retrieved 5 March 2024 – via PapersPast.
  7. ^ Mouat, F. J. (21 June 1911). "Chess". Otago Witness. No. 2988. p. 92. Retrieved 5 March 2024 – via PapersPast.
  8. ^ a b "Table talk". Otago Witness. No. 3025. 6 March 1912. p. 71. Retrieved 5 March 2024 – via PapersPast.
  9. ^ a b c d e "Dunlop chess champion". Manawatu Times. Vol. 42, no. 1726. 6 January 1921. p. 5. Retrieved 5 March 2024 – via PapersPast.
  10. ^ "Personal". Evening Star. No. 19828. 29 March 1928. p. 11. Retrieved 15 March 2024 – via PapersPast.
  11. ^ a b c d e f g h "Chess". Evening Star. No. 23171. 21 January 1939. p. 22. Retrieved 5 March 2024 – via PapersPast.
  12. ^ "Chess". New Zealand Times. Vol. 37, no. 8610. 22 December 1913. p. 2. Retrieved 5 March 2024 – via PapersPast.
  13. ^ a b "John Boyd Dunlop". Chessgames.com. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
  14. ^ a b c Stuart, Peter (19 December 2012). "The New Zealand championships: a brief history". Poison Pawn. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
  15. ^ "New Zealand sport". The Referee. 24 January 1923. p. 16. Retrieved 13 March 2024 – via Trove.
  16. ^ "Dunlop wins chess championship play-off". Manawatu Times. Vol. 59, no. 7428. 2 April 1934. p. 6. Retrieved 5 March 2024 – via PapersPast.
  17. ^ "Chess champion". Wanganui Chronicle. Vol. 89, no. 247. 19 October 1945. p. 6. Retrieved 5 March 2024 – via PapersPast.
  18. ^ Stuart, Peter (October 1979). "N.Z. master title researched" (PDF). New Zealand Chess. 5 (5): 115. Retrieved 15 March 2024.
  19. ^ Newick, Conrad Brice (1966). "Chess". In McLintock, A. H. (ed.). An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 15 March 2024.
  20. ^ "Ailsa Eleanor Ormond Dunlop". Hastings District Council. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
  21. ^ "Dunlop, John Boyd – Auckland – retired". Archives New Zealand. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
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