How Members of England's 1939 Chess Olympiad Team Became Wartime Codebreakers The story of Hugh Alexander, Stuart Milner Barry, and Harry Golombek is a testament to the power of human ingenuity and determination.
The three Englishmen traded in their chessboards for cryptanalysis at Bletchley Park, where they worked tirelessly to break the Enigma code.
From Checkmate to Enigma The 1939 Chess Olympiad in Buenos Aires was a major event with twenty seven national teams participating.