Harry Golombek

HARRY GOLOMBEK d1995. British chess player, chess author and wartime codebreaker. He was three times British chess champion (1947 / 1949 and 1955) and finished second in 1948. At the outbreak of WW2 in September 1939, he was in Buenos Aires (competing in the Chess Olympiad for Britain) alongside C H Alexander and Stuart Milner-Barry. They immediately returned to the UK and were soon recruited into Bletchley Park, the wartime codebreaking centre. Golombek worked in Hut 8, the section responsible for solving German Naval Enigma. He died in London aged 83 on January 7th 1995