Harold James Plaskett (born Dkeliah, Cyprus, March 18, 1960) was British Chess Champion in 1990, awarded the International Grandmaster title in 1985, and is also a writer, blogger, sometime explorer/cryptozoologist and legal campaigner. Married in 1995 to writer Fiona Pitt-Kethley, they have a son, Alexander, born 1996, and live in Cartagena, Spain.
He has written nine chess books and also one quasi-autobiographical one, Coincidences. For some ye...
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Harold James Plaskett (born Dkeliah, Cyprus, March 18, 1960) was British Chess Champion in 1990, awarded the International Grandmaster title in 1985, and is also a writer, blogger, sometime explorer/cryptozoologist and legal campaigner. Married in 1995 to writer Fiona Pitt-Kethley, they have a son, Alexander, born 1996, and live in Cartagena, Spain.
He has written nine chess books and also one quasi-autobiographical one, Coincidences. For some years in the 1990s he was chess columnist at The New Statesman.
He appeared unsuccessfully several times on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, and then drew on his experiences to write a defence of Charles Ingram, his wife, Diana, and Tecwen Whittock, who had been found guilty in April 2003 of conspiring to help Ingram win the £1 million top prize by coughing to signal the right answers.
This essay led to an article by Bob Woffinden in The Daily Mail of October 9, 2004 - Is The Coughing Major Innocent?, and also prompted a reconsideration of the...
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