British lightning chess champion Bernard Cafferty dies at 92
The player set a record in the British Lightning Championship and also edited British Chess Magazine and translated chess literature into English.
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The player set a record in the British Lightning Championship and also edited British Chess Magazine and translated chess literature into English.
Bernard Cafferty, the chess player who won a record four successive British Lightning Championship titles, has died at 92, The Guardian said on 6 November. Cafferty was also a longtime editor of British Chess Magazine and a translator of chess books.
The Guardian did not give a date of death. Wikipedia says Cafferty died on 4 November 2026 in Hastings, East Sussex.
His successive lightning titles came in 1966, 1967, 1968 and 1969, after he shared the title in 1964. The competition allowed players 10 seconds per move.
In the 1964 British Championship, Cafferty tied for second with three other players behind Michael Haygarth. He later served as Tony Miles’s second, assisting him when Miles won the 1974 World Junior title.
Cafferty became general editor of British Chess Magazine in 1981, stepped down from that role in 1991 and remained an associate editor until 2011. He translated Alexander Kotov’s Think Like a Grandmaster into English; the translation was published in 1971.
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