Yates, Frederick Dewhurst (16.01.1884 – 11.11.1932)
One of the strongest English players from 1910 to the 1930s. Chess man of letters.
Yates worked as a chess correspondent of the Manchester Guardian; also, as the chess column editor of the Yorkshire Post from 1910 until 1932 and the Daily Telegraph from 1925 to 1932. He dealt with bookkeeping.
Yates took part in several national championships: equal first in 1913, 1921, 1926, 1928, 1931; shared first-second in 1911, lost the match against G. Atkin; won first-second in 1914; took second in 1924 and 1925.
Starting from 1919 to 1932, he had participated in 60 international tournaments, his best results are: shared 3rd-4th at Hastings 1919 and 1923/24, 2nd in 1924/25, 3rd in 1926/27 and 1929/30; shared 3rd at Triest 1923; 2nd at Hent 1926; equal 1st with Tartakower at Kecskemet 1927; shared 1st-2nd at Tanbridge Wells 1927; 5th at San Remo 1930 which was the strongest tournament of the year, where Yates’ result was fifth after Alekhine, Nimzowitsch, Rubinstein, and Bogoljubow, ahead of Spielmann, Vidmar, and Tartakower.
He took part in the first Moscow International and represented his country in the Olympiads in 1927, 1930 and 1931.
Romanovsky once said about Yates: a player “of initiative and shifty style”. His game with Vidmar in San Remo, Alekhine called “one of the best games after the war”.
Yates wrote three books together with W. Winter; his book One Hundred and One of My Best Games was completed and published in 1934 by Winter.
