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Charles Ranken

British chess player

Died when: 77 years 97 days (927 months)
Star Sign: Capricorn

 

Charles Ranken

Charles Edward Ranken (5 January 1828 – 12 April 1905) was a Church of England clergyman and a minor British chess master.He co-founded and was the first president of the Oxford University Chess Club.

He was also the editor of the Chess Player's Chronicle and a writer for the British Chess Magazine.Ranken is best known today as the co-author of Chess Openings Ancient and Modern (1889), one of the first important opening treatises in the English language.


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