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Britbase Chess Archive : Material from the 1920s - Part 1 • Latest update: Wednesday April 26, 2023 9:29 AM

 

London BEC Tournament 1927

British Empire Club Masters, London - October 1927

1927 British Empire Club Masters 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12  Total 
1 Aron Nimzowitsch
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1 0 ½ 1 0 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 8
2 Saviely Tartakower 0
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½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 8
3 Frank James Marshall 1 ½
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½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ ½
4 Milan Vidmar Sr ½ ½ ½
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1 0 0 1 ½ 1 1 1 7
5 Efim Bogoljubow 0 0 ½ 0
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1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1
6 William Winter 1 0 ½ 1 0
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0 ½ 1 1 ½ 0
7 Richard Réti ½ 0 ½ 1 0 1
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½ 0 1 ½ ½
8 Edgar Colle 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½
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0 ½ 1 1
9 Sir George Alan Thomas 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 1
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0 1 0
10 Victor Buerger 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 1
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0 1
11 Fred Dewhirst Yates 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 0 0 1
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1
12 William Albert Fairhurst 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 ½ 0 1 0 0
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Middlesex County Team

Middlesex County Team - English Champions 1925
(Winners 30 times between 1908 and 1989)
English County Trophy - The Lowenthal Cup

Some of the players: Maurice Edward Goldstein, born 6 April 1901 Kingston-upon-Thames, died 12 October 1966 Sydney AUS, was New Zealand Champion 1932-3; Victor B(u)erger, born 1904 Russia, died March 1996, defeated Alekhine in a game at Margate 1937; George William Richmond, born 22 June 1877 England, died 20 October 1941 London, Scottish Champion 1910; Edward Guthlac Sergeant (1881-1961), London Champion 1951, Richard Clewin Griffith (1872-1955), British Champion 1912, Editor of BCM 1920-40; Bruno Edgar Siegheim, born 24 May 1875 Berlin, died 5 November 1952 Johannesburg, South African Champion 1906, 1912; Harold Meek (died 16 November 1954, aged 69) had been the chess columnist in the Evening Standard and the Evening News, as well as the BCF Hon.Sec. and organiser; Arthur Emerson Mercer (1873-12 June 1964, who played in the 1906 British Championship). Steve Mann's excellent Yorkshire Chess History website provides a wealth of biographical information about the Yorkshire players.

  Middlesex 12.12.1925 Yorkshire
1 Bruno Edgar Siegheim 0-1 Henry Ernest Atkins
2 Edward Guthlac Sergeant 1-0 Charles Reuben Gurnhill
3 Harold Saunders ½-½ Thomas Arthur Staynes
4 George William Richmond 1-0 (Francis) Percival Wenman
5 Victor Buerger 0-1 George Wyville Moses
6 Maurice Edward Goldstein 1-0 Frank Schofield
7 Jonas Birnberg 0-1 George Barron
8 Arthur Emerson Mercer 1-0 Harry Woodhouse Hodgkinson
9 Richard Clewin Griffith ½-½ Edward Dale
10 John Harold Morrison 1-0 William Henry John Sparkes
11 Dr Frederick Sampson Duncan 0-1 Alexander Schofield
12 Richard Frank Goldstein ½-½ Conrad Gallimore Wenyon
    6½-5½  

 


Hyeres 1926

Hyères 1926 (18-23 January), 2nd annual tournament - Scores: A Baratz 8½, D Janowski 7, Max Romih 6, AJ Maas 5½, V Halberstadt 5, Hans Müller 5, Colonel Charles Edward Stuart-Prince 3, RHV Scott 3, Mrs Agnes Stevenson 2, N de Fridman 0. J Keeble scored 6½ in the Minor Tourney. Abraham Baratz was a 31-year-old student of scupture in Paris at the time of the tournament. From Bessarabia (ROM), he represented Romania in the Olympiads of 1929 and 1930. He died in Paris in 1975. Dawid Janowski, world title challenger 1910, born 7 June 1868 and died at the Hyeres event of the following year, 15 January 1927. Roland Henry Vaughan Scott, born 25 March 1888 Barnes, died 10 January 1953 Monte Carlo, was British Champion 1920. Isidor Gunsberg, born 2 November 1854 Budapest, died 2 May 1930 London, did not take part in the tournament. He challenged Steinitz for the world title in 1890/1. Vitaly Halberstadt died 25 October 1968 Paris, aged 64; he was a player, problemist and above all a noted endgame study composer.


Reginald P Michell

Reginald Pryce Michell, born 9 April 1873 Penzance, died 19 May 1938 Kingston-upon-Thames. British Champion (amateur) 1902. Played in the 1927 Olympiad for England, scoring +4, =4, -5, and in the 1933 Folkestone Olympiad of 1933 scoring +0, =5, -4. He played in eight England v USA cable matches between 1901 and 1911. He was a frequent competitor in the Hastings Premier over 20 years, defeating Sultan Khan and Menchik in 1932/3. He finished 2nd, 3rd and 4th in the British Championship proper, defeating HE Atkins on several occasions. He worked in the Admiralty, and his wife Edith (maiden name Edith Mary Ann Tapsell) (July-Sep? 1872 Croydon, Surrey - 18 October 1951 Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex) was British Women's Champion in 1931 (jointly), 1932 and 1935.


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Date Notes
circa 1998 This page first uploaded around 1998
30 August 2020 Added details for Ena Florence Hazelden (1906-2000) whose first husband was the well-known Hastings-resident player (William) Arthur Winser (1906-1991). They married in 1928. Ena married Harvey Pendleton (1900-1982) in 1974.
5 January 2021 Added/improved photos of the 1927 English and Scottish girls' championship, and included a viewer for the Michell game.
24 August 2022 Some corrections, extra biographical info about players and other cosmetic changes.
26 April 2023 I have moved details of 1920s Girls' Championship to this page.

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