22-06-2025, 12:19 PM
Alastair's substantial chess contributions and unfailingly friendly, outgoing nature will indeed be missed sorely. On a personal, off the board note, Alastair, an emeritus professor in this field, was tickled to hear some years ago of a recent enthusiasm of mine in the Scottish Enlightenment 'geologist' (and polymath), James Hutton. Hutton's most internationally famous, spectacular and still much visited find, his so-called 'unconformity' is more or less 'local'.
Sadly, I hadn't yet got round to telling him that Hutton's most recent biographer, has just been slated to give a Hutton talk at the Dunbar History Club in a couple of months from now. He'd have been twice tickled by that. Missed in many ways. Condolences to family and many friends
Sadly, I hadn't yet got round to telling him that Hutton's most recent biographer, has just been slated to give a Hutton talk at the Dunbar History Club in a couple of months from now. He'd have been twice tickled by that. Missed in many ways. Condolences to family and many friends