Notes

In January 1999, just short of her twelfth birthday, Jessie captured the Women's World Amateur Chess Championship. As a junior and shortly as an adult she went on to become one of Britain's leading players. A brilliant all-round scholar as well as a talented musician, she won a place to study medicine at Oxford, hoping to follow in her mother's footsteps. Her life was cut tragically short in July 2006.

Like many people who knew Jessie only slightly, I was deeply affected by her death. In October last year I published a bibliography of her life, which I advertised in a chess Usenet Group, only to be met with the response "And who,, just might Jessie Gilbert be ...pray tell ??"


Inadequate though it may be, this small collection will ensure that no one need ever ask that question again.


I have indexed all the relevant files chronologically as far as possible, and for the most part one document per Archive page. All the pages can be located via the unique (case sensitive) keyword JessieGilbertVirtualArchive.

Alexander Baron
Sydenham,
London.
January 30, 2010


Chronological Index To THE JESSIE GILBERT VIRTUAL ARCHIVE


March 29, 1987: Certificate of Baptism for Jessie Gilbert

January 1996: Surrey Girls Chess League Newsletter

April 9-10, 1996: A certificate awarded to Jessie

April 21, 1996: Certificate from 1st Chigwell Junior Chess Congress

May 11, 1996: Certificate from the National Girls' Schools Chess Championships

May 17, 1996: Croydon Advertiser

July 17, 1996: Croydon Post

July 25, 1997: Caterham and District Advertiser

September 18, 1997: CROYDON Guardian

September 4, 1998: Coulsdon Advertiser

December 31, 1998: Jessie's score of her game with David Howell

January 4, 1999: Stephen Cunliffe v Jessie Gilbert, Hastings

January 7, 1999: Jessie Gilbert v Thomas Cleary, Hastings

circa January 9, 1999: Jessie's autographed Hastings Congress programme

circa January 9, 1999: A brief excerpt of an interview with Jessie from Sky TV

circa January 11, 1999: Two photographs

January 15, 1999: Caterham Advertiser

January 22, 1999: Coulsdon And Purley Advertiser

January 22, 1999: Croydon Advertiser

February 1999: CHS Jazz

February 6, 1999: The Times chess column

March 14, 1999: Extract from Hansard

March 25, 1999: Autographed official invitation

March 28, 1999: Jessie's letter to Grandmaster Edmar Mednis

December 1999: CHS Jazz

March 10, 2000: Caterham and District Advertiser

January-February 2006: ChessMoves

February, 2006: A photograph from South Korea

May 21, 2006: Tshepiso Lopang v Jessie Gilbert

May/June 2006: ChessMoves

August 17, 2006: Funeral tribute by Lorna Ogilvie

September 2006: British Chess Magazine, obituary

circa December 2006: Southern Counties Chess Association Yearbook

February 23, 2007: Radio Five Live interview with Angela Gilbert

2008: Recollections of Leonard Barden

2008: Gawain Jones on Jessie Gilbert

2008: Peter Wilson on Jessie Gilbert

2024: Jessie’s grave