1929 William Winter vs Edgar Colle - 10-game Match, Imperial Chess Club, London, 10-22 January

1929 Match, London	Residence	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total
William Winter	London ENG	½	0	½	½	1	½	½	0	½	1	5
Edgar Colle	Ghent BEL	½	1	½	½	0	½	½	1	½	0	5

The match was announced in BCM, January 1929, thus: "A match will be played in London early in January between E. Colle, Belgian Champion, and W. Winter." BCM had nothing further to say. The Exeter and Plymouth Gazette for 7 February 1929 reported that the match ended in a 5-5 draw, both players having won two games, with six draws. The Yorkshire Post, 23 January 1929, reported that "the chess match played at the Imperial Chess Club, London, between Colle, the Belgian champion, and W. Winter, one of the strongest London players, was declared a draw yesterday by mutual consent after the tenth game. Each player had scored two wins, and six games were drawn. The second and eighth games were won by Colle, and the fifth and tenth (and last) game by Winter."

Additional information: the Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant for Saturday 12 January 1929 said that the match had been going 'since last Thursday' so the first game must have been played on 10 January 1929. We have a date of 15 January 1929 for the fifth game, so it seems reasonable to assume that intervening games were played on 11, 12, 13 January with Sunday 14 January being a free day. It has not yet been possible to determine the dates that games 7-9 were played. JS

Sources: Manchester Guardian; L'Echiquier; Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant; Yorkshire Post; Exeter and Plymouth Gazette. At least one continental newspaper stated that the intended duration of the match was 12 games, and that a return match the following year in Belgium was envisaged.

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Date	Notes
12 September 2025	First uploaded. Six games plus four stubs. My thanks to Philip Jurgens for his assistance.