More on John Moles

A long, detailed, and very interesting obituary of John Moles appeared in the December issue of Histos, an online academic journal co-founded by him, written by a close and long-time academic colleague who knew him over decades.

I never met Moles myself–he was ending his chess career just as I was starting–but I was curious to see how the rounded person matched the impressions I had formed of him from his book The French Defence Main Line Winawer (Batsford 1975): someone of strongly held opinions, forcefully expressed, who relished in argument and debate, and an unusually incisive thinker with a tremendous capacity and appetite for hard work.

He seems to have been all that, but much more besides. See A. J. Woodman, Professor J. L. Moles, Histos 9 (2015) 312-18 (via the Wayback Machine).

The obituary also includes another recent photograph of Moles, on holiday in Crete in 2014:

John Moles, Crete 2014

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