James Macrae Aitken
James Macrae Aitken (27 October 1908, Calderbank, Lanarkshire, Scotland – 3 December 1983, Cheltenham) was a Scottish chess player.
In 1938 he received a PhD from Edinburgh University on the topic of 'The Trial of George Buchanan Before the Lisbon Inquisition'.[1]
He was Scottish champion in 1935, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961 and 1965, the latter jointly with PM Jamieson. He was also London Champion in 1950.
He represented Scotland in four chess Olympiads (1937, 1958, 1964, and 1972).
In 1946, he participated in the radio match between the United Kingdom and the USSR. He lost his match with Igor Bondarevsky on board 8.
During World War II, Aitken worked in Hut 6 at Bletchley Park on solving German Enigma machines (Taunt, 2001, pp. 81–82). He died in Cheltenham in 1983, aged 75.
[edit] References
- Derek Taunt, "Breaking German Naval Enigma", pp. 77–93 in Action this Day, edited by Ralph Erskine and Michael Smith, 2001, ISBN 0-593-04982-9.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Aitken, James M. (1939). The Trial of George Buchanan Before the Lisbon Inquisition. Edinburgh, London: Oliver and Boyd.
[edit] External links
- James Macrae Aitken player profile at ChessGames.com
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