Charles Harry Greier died recently at the age of 79. He will be remembered as one of Jersey's best ever chess players.

His career with the Jersey Chess Club spanned six decades from the 1940s to the 1990s as he followed in his father's footsteps, Karl Greier also having been one of Jersey's strongest players.

Charles won the Jersey Chess Club championship four times between 1959 and 1963. He later turned his energies to the organisation of chess events, acting as the controller of Jersey International Chess Festivals and Island junior championships. Following the Fischer-Spassky chess boom he became the club's match captain in the 1970s and 1980s, running three hotly-contested divisions of the chess club's league.

His captaincy of the inter-insular teams led to Jersey's record-breaking run of nine consecutive wins against Guernsey. Charles was a player himself in 29 inter-insulars, winning the individual Channel Islands' championship for victory on top board in 1963 and sharing the title in 1959, 1962 and 1964.

His strongest adversary was W. Withers, with whom he drew in 1959 but lost to in 1960. His other opponents included Eugene Laine, Tom Moriarty, Eric Palmer, Cecil de Sausmarez and John Cummins for an overall score of 16.5 points from 29 games played.

The Jersey Chess Club would like to record its appreciation for his contribution to the development of chess and its sympathies to his family.