Harold Saunders was a British chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 master and bridge player.

He took 2nd, behind George Alan Thomas

George Alan Thomas

Sir George Alan Thomas, Bart. was a British badminton, tennis and chess player. He was twice British Chess Champion and a 21-time All-England Badminton champion. He also played in the semi-finals of the men's tennis doubles at Wimbledon in 1911...

, at London 1913, took 4th at Cheltenham 1913 (Frederick Yates

Frederick Yates

Frederick Dewhurst Yates was an English chess master who won the British Chess Championship on six occasions...

 won), tied for 7-8th at Hastings 1919 (Minor, E.G. Seargent won), tied for 5-7th at Hastings 1924/25 (Section B ), took 5th at Edinburgh 1926 (Yates won), and shared 3rd, behind Victor Buerger

Victor Buerger

Victor Buerger was a Ukrainian–British chess player.Victor Berger was a member of London Chess Club....

 and Yates, at London 1926.

His best results had place in Scarborough, where he tied for first with Edgard Colle

Edgard Colle

Edgard Colle was a Belgian chess master. He scored excellent results in major international tournaments, including first at Amsterdam 1926, ahead of Savielly Tartakower and future world champion Max Euwe; first at Meran 1926, ahead of Esteban Canal; and first at Scarborough 1930, ahead of Maróczy...

 in Section B but lost their individual game, and then lost a play-off match to Thomas (0 : 2) for the 3rd prize. So, finally he took 4th place there. The event was won by Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine was the fourth World Chess Champion. He is often considered one of the greatest chess players ever.By the age of twenty-two, he was already among the strongest chess players in the world. During the 1920s, he won most of the tournaments in which he played...

.
He took 9th in 1927 (Colle won),
tied for 4-6th in 1928 (William Winter

William Winter (chess player)

William Winter was a British chess player. He won the British Open Chess Championship in 1934 and the British Chess Championship in 1935 and 1936. An acolyte of Siegbert Tarrasch, his sound, strategic play enabled him to defeat a number of the world's top players, including David Bronstein, Aron...

 won),
and shared 1st with Savielly Tartakower

Savielly Tartakower

Ksawery Tartakower was a leading Polish and French chess Grandmaster. He was also a leading chess journalist of the 1920s and 30s...

 in 1929.

In 1932, he took 12th in British Chess Championship

British Chess Championship

The British Chess Championship is organised by the English Chess Federation. There are separate championships for men and women. Since 1923 there have been sections for juniors, and since 1982 there has been an over-sixty championship. The championship venue usually changes every year and has been...

 in London (Mir Sultan Khan

Mir Sultan Khan

Malik Mir Sultan Khan was the strongest chess master of his time from Asia. This manservant from British India traveled with Colonel Nawab Sir Umar Hayat Khan , his master, to Britain, where he took the chess world by storm...

won).