1962 (10th) Stevenson Memorial, Bognor Regis, 25 April - 5 May (Venue: Rex Ballroom, Bognor Regis) • 1961«»1963

1962 Bognor Regis 10th Stevenson Memorial		Residence	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Total
1	Nikola Karaklajic	Yugoslavia	◊ 1/19	♦ 1/32	♦ 1/18	◊ 1/9	♦ 1/2	♦ 1/7	◊ ½/3	◊ 1/4	♦ 1/5	◊ ½/6	♦ 1/13	10
2	Dr Heinz Lehmann	W Germany	♦ 1/33	◊ ½/11	♦ 1/4	♦ 1/3	◊ 0/1	♦ 1/6	◊ 1/7	♦ 1/10	◊ ½/12	◊ ½/5	◊ 1/9	8½
3	Drazen Marovic	Yugoslavia	♦ 1/28	♦ ½/4	◊ 1/14	◊ 0/2	♦ 1/18	◊ 1/13	♦ ½/1	◊ 1/9	♦ ½/7	◊ 1/11	♦ ½/6	8
4	Baruch Harold Wood	Sutton C'field	♦ 1/35	◊ ½/3	◊ 0/2	♦ 1/32	◊ ½/5	♦ 1/19	◊ 1/6	♦ 0/1	◊ ½/11	♦ 1/10	◊ 1/7	7½
5	Ivan Nemet	Yugoslavia	♦ 1/31	♦ 1/10	◊ 1/8	◊ 0/7	♦ ½/4	◊ ½/11	♦ ½/18	◊ 1/16	◊ 0/1	♦ ½/2	◊ 1/12	7
6	David Sherman	Leyton	♦ 1/25	◊ ½/7	♦ ½/11	◊ 1/21	♦ 1/9	◊ 0/2	♦ 0/4	◊ 1/14	◊ ½/10	♦ ½/1	◊ ½/3	6½
7	Owen M Hindle	Sutton C'field	◊ 1/36	♦ ½/6	◊ 1/15	♦ 1/5	♦ 1/22	◊ 0/1	♦ 0/2	◊ 1/12	◊ ½/3	♦ ½/9	♦ 0/4	6½
8	Arthur F Brameld	Gosport	♦ 1/12	◊ 1/17	♦ 0/5	♦ ½/11	◊ ½/10	♦ ½/27	◊ ½/14	♦ ½/22	◊ ½/23	◊ ½/18	♦ 1/24	6½
9	Friedrich Saemisch	W Germany	◊ 1/21	♦ 1/15	◊ 1/16	♦ 0/1	◊ 0/6	♦ ½/14	◊ 1/17	♦ 0/3	◊ 1/22	◊ ½/7	♦ 0/2	6
10	Bernard Cafferty	Birmingham	♦ 1/13	◊ 0/5	♦ 1/29	◊ ½/18	♦ ½/8	◊ 1/22	♦ 1/11	◊ 0/2	♦ ½/6	◊ 0/4	♦ ½/20	6
11	David E Lloyd	London	1d/27	♦ ½/2	◊ ½/6	◊ ½/8	♦ 1/21	♦ ½/5	◊ 0/10	◊ 1/18	♦ ½/4	♦ 0/3	◊ ½/14	6
12	Gerald Abrahams	Liverpool	◊ 0/8	◊ 0/25	♦ 1/28	♦ ½/15	◊ 1/23	♦ 1/20	◊ 1/27	♦ 0/7	♦ ½/2	◊ 1/17	♦ 0/5	6
13	Alan Lawrence Ayriss	Brixton	◊ 0/10	◊ 1/26	♦ ½/27	♦ ½/16	◊ 1/17	♦ 0/3	◊ 0/22	♦ 1/25	◊ 1/28	♦ 1/23	◊ 0/1	6
14	Walter Mandel	W Germany	♦ ½/22	◊ 1/29	♦ 0/3	◊ ½/27	♦ 1/30	◊ ½/9	♦ ½/8	♦ 0/6	◊ ½/15	◊ 1/16	♦ ½/11	6
15	Bernard Landon Wilkinson	Preston	♦ 1/24	◊ 0/9	♦ 0/7	◊ ½/12	♦ ½/31	◊ 0/16	♦ 1/26	◊ 1/28	♦ ½/14	◊ ½/20	♦ 1/18	6
16	Wilfred Henry Pratten	Fareham	♦ ½/17	◊ 1/33	♦ 0/9	◊ ½/13	◊ 0/19	♦ 1/15	◊ 1/24	♦ 0/5	◊ 1/29	♦ 0/14	◊ 1/26	6
17	Peter N Lee	London	◊ ½/16	♦ 0/8	◊ 1/31	◊ ½/30	♦ 0/13	◊ 1/29	♦ 0/9	◊ 1/24	♦ 1/19	♦ 0/12	◊ 1/23	6
18	F Norman Stephenson	Harrow	◊ 1/20	♦ 1/23	◊ 0/1	♦ ½/10	◊ 0/3	♦ 1/26	◊ ½/5	♦ 0/11	◊ 1/27	♦ ½/8	◊ 0/15	5½
19	William Leonard Brierley	Beckenham	♦ 0/1	◊ 1/24	♦ 0/22	◊ 1/25	♦ 1/16	◊ 0/4	◊ ½/23	♦ ½/27	◊ 0/17	♦ ½/29	◊ 1/28	5½
20	Francis William Viney	London	♦ 0/18	◊ 1/35	◊ 0/23	♦ ½/26	◊ 1/32	◊ 0/12	♦ 0/30	◊ 1/33	♦ 1/21	♦ ½/15	◊ ½/10	5½
21	Stanley Charles Love	Wimbledon	♦ 0/9	◊ 1/34	♦ 1/25	♦ 0/6	◊ 0/11	◊ ½/30	♦ 0/28	♦ 1/35	◊ 0/20	◊ 1/36	♦ 1/31	5½
22	Rodney Ewan James	Banstead	◊ ½/14	♦ ½/30	◊ 1/19	♦ 1/23	◊ 0/7	♦ 0/10	♦ 1/13	◊ ½/8	♦ 0/9	◊ 0/24	♦ ½/33	5
23	Harry Gethin Thorp Matchett	Bexhill	♦ 1/26	◊ 0/18	♦ 1/20	◊ 0/22	♦ 0/12	◊ 1/25	♦ ½/19	◊ 1/30	♦ ½/8	◊ 0/13	♦ 0/17	5
24	(Patricia) Anne Sunnucks	Woolwich	◊ 0/15	♦ 0/19	◊ 1/34	◊ 1/33	♦ 0/27	◊ 1/31	♦ 0/16	♦ 0/17	◊ 1/36	♦ 1/22	◊ 0/8	5
25	Colin Waring	Manchester	◊ 0/6	♦ 1/12	◊ 0/21	♦ 0/19	◊ 1/36	♦ 0/23	♦ 1/31	◊ 0/13	◊ 0/34	♦ 1/35	♦ 1/32	5
26	Roger Leslie Paige	Cosham	◊ 0/23	♦ 0/13	♦ 1/35	◊ ½/20	♦ ½/29	◊ 0/18	◊ 0/15	♦ 1/34	♦ 1/30	◊ 1d/27	♦ 0/16	5
27	Michael John Dymond	Portsmouth	0d/11	♦ 1/36	◊ ½/13	♦ ½/14	◊ 1/24	◊ ½/8	♦ 0/12	◊ ½/19	♦ 0/18	♦ 0d/26	◊ 1/35	5
28	John H Jones	Gosport	◊ 0/3	♦ ½/31	◊ 0/12	◊ 0/29	♦ 1/33	♦ 1/32	◊ 1/21	♦ 0/15	♦ 0/13	◊ 1/34	♦ 0/19	4½
29	Arnolds Mazitis	London	◊ ½/30	♦ 0/14	◊ 0/10	♦ 1/28	◊ ½/26	♦ 0/17	◊ 1/35	♦ 1/32	♦ 0/16	◊ ½/19	♦ 0/34	4½
30	Jack Dennis Rosse1	London	♦ ½/29	◊ ½/22	◊ ½/32	♦ ½/17	◊ 0/14	♦ ½/21	◊ 1/20	♦ 0/23	◊ 0/26	◊ 0/33	♦ 1/36	4½
31	John Denley Mills	Taunton	◊ 0/5	◊ ½/28	♦ 0/17	♦ 1/34	◊ ½/15	♦ 0/24	◊ 0/25	♦ 1/36	♦ 1/33	◊ ½/32	◊ 0/21	4½
32	Wilfred Evans	Chorleywood	♦ 1/34	◊ 0/1	♦ ½/30	◊ 0/4	♦ 0/20	◊ 0/28	♦ 1/36	◊ 0/29	◊ 1/35	♦ ½/31	◊ 0/25	4
33	George William Henlen	Ashtead	◊ 0/2	♦ 0/16	◊ 1/36	♦ 0/24	◊ 0/28	◊ 0/35	♦ 1/34	♦ 0/20	◊ 0/31	♦ 1/30	◊ ½/22	3½
34	Anthony G Frish	Staines	◊ 0/32	♦ 0/21	♦ 0/24	◊ 0/31	♦ 0/35	◊ 1/36	◊ 0/33	◊ 0/26	♦ 1/25	♦ 0/28	◊ 1/29	3
35	Gordon Knott	Christchurch	◊ 0/4	♦ 0/20	◊ 0/26	♦ 0/36	◊ 1/34	♦ 1/33	♦ 0/29	◊ 0/21	♦ 0/32	◊ 0/25	♦ 0/27	2
36	Gregory Owen J Melitus	London	♦ 0/7	◊ 0/27	♦ 0/33	◊ 1/35	♦ 0/25	♦ 0/34	◊ 0/32	◊ 0/31	♦ 0/24	♦ 0/21	◊ 0/30	1

¹ né Jacob Rosselson - a violinist by profession, born November 1900 (Lithuania), died 1989. Not related to celebrated folk singer, writer and chess player Leon Rosselson.

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Championship Reserve: 1-2 J D Barham (London), Alan Edgar Nield (New Zealand) 7; 3 George Arthur Peck (Rugby) 6½; 4 E. A. Chambers (St. Albans) 5½; 5-6 Herbert Francis Gook (Croydon), Patric Kirtlan 4½; 7-8 Dr Leonard Shenfield * (London), Arthur T Watson (Worthing) 4; 9 Oscar Serck (Knighton) 2; 10 E A Dubois 0.
* Dr Leonard Shenfield (né Sheinfeld, Ukraine, b 1919, Ukraine, d 1998, Eastbourne; GP in north London - link)

1962 S.C.C.U. Boys’ Championship (Under-18): (1) Ronald A Harris (London) 6; (2) Alastair Ian Ninian Brodie (Eton) 5½; (3) Michael J Basman (Esher) 5; (4) G. R. Dodd (Hove G. S.) 4½; (5-6) A. F. Morgan (Westminster), Alan H Palmer (Brighton) 4; (7-8) Julian Alexander Hardinge (Eton), Richard M F Russell (London) 3½; (9-10) M. Ford (King Edward VI), G. Krakorszky (St. Aloysius) 3; (11-12) D. Khan (St. Mary’s College), R. Martin (Newbury) 2½; (13) Peter Barrie Collacott (King's College) 2.

1962 S.C.C.U. Boys’ Championship (Under-16) 30 entries: (1-4) Stephen R Curry (Harrow), G. Silver (William Ellis), D. H. Smith (Hayes G. S.), Paul F Timson (Harrow) 5½; (5-6) (Paul) John Patience (Regents Park Sch, Southampton), Nicholas J Patterson (Beaumont) 5; (7) Louis de Veauce (Englefield) 4½; (8-13) K. Allen (Alleyns), Terry D Baldwin (Battersea G. S.), B. Banham (Deanery B. S.), Michael J Bauchop (King Edwards), P. Mitchell (Regents Park), Brian F O’Sullivan (St. George’s) 4, etc.

1962 S.C.C.U. Boys’ Championship (Under-14) 28 Entries: (1) Brian J Denman (Hove C. G.) 6; (2-3) Raymond D Keene (Dulwich), Brian Tombleson (Strand) 5½; (4) Ivor Adrian Friedlander (St. G. Monoux) 5; (5-6) M. G. Fountain (Hayes C. G.), John N Sugden (Dulwich) 4½; (7-12) P. H. Collins (Hayes C. G.), M. Harris (Gloucester), Brian Jennings (William Ellis), David C McClain (William Ellis), N. Rickard (Parkhouse), Chris J McSheehy (St. Mary’s College) 4, etc.

1962 S.C.C.U. Boys’ Championship (Under-12) 35 entries: 1 Terance (Terry) W Hart (Battersea G. S.) 7; 2-3 Michael Goldstein (Dulwich), Roger L Gittins (Dulwich) 6; 4 A. McGill (Strand) 5: 5-9 Tony J Denman (West Blatchington School, Hove), Neil A Frish (London), Leslie K Fitt (Battersea G. S.), S. Firman (Eardley J. M.), R. Jeffreys (Wilsons) 4½, etc.

1962 S.C.C.U. Girls’ Championship (Under-18): (1) Gillian Moore (Southampton) 7/7; (2) Loretta Levy (Highbury) 5½; (3) Dinah M Dobson (Rickmansworth) 5; (4) Valerie A Pockett (Gloucester) 3½; (5) C. Ford (Deanery G. S.) 3; (6-7) R. I. Mason (Catford), Patricia Rimington (Plumstead) 2; (8) S. Boyles (Nonsuch G. S.) 0.

1962 S.C.C.U. Girls’ Championship (Under-14): (1) Linda Janet Bott (Eardley J. M.) 6; 2 Lynne Crew-Smith (Gloucester) 5½; 3 J. Coe (Bexley) 4½; 4 S. Baker (Plumstead) 4; 5 C. M. Hann (Eltham) 3½; 6 Jennifer A Eatough (Gloucester) 3; 7 J. M. Idle (Plumstead) 1½; 8 P. McGuiness (Woolwich) 0.

1962 S.C.C.U. Girls’ Championship (Under-12) 11 entries: (1) S Cramer (Hamlet J. S.) 7; (2) Pauline Withers (Minet J. S.) 6; (3) J Millen (Kingsdale) 5, etc.

1962 S.C.C.U. Ladies’ Championship: (1-3) Miss E Shirley Mann (Horsham), Miss K M Northcliff (W. Dulwich), Mrs. P Van den Bergh (Windsor) 4; (4) Mrs. H Wilding (Maidstone) 2; (5) Miss E V Webb (Hayes) 1.

Open Swiss - Six Day (8 entries): (1) Arthur Hall (Hastings) 4; (2) Robert C Pentecost 3½; (3-5) Christopher I Moffat, D Bryden (Reading), Rev. Henry Middleton Blackett (Hastings) 3, etc.

Major - Five Day Mornings (6 entries): (1) J E Haynes (Cheam) 4½; (2) David Parr (Sutton) 3½; (3-4) Raymond Bott (Streatham), T. W. White (Guildford) 2½, etc.

Major "A" - Five Day Afternoons (6 entries): (1-2) Leslie E Vine (Eastleigh), W McDevitt (Saltdean) 4; (3) Lewis Johnstone Mills (Clacton) 3, etc.

Major "B" - Five Day Afternoons (6 entries): (1) Leslie Alexander Jonas Fainlight (Hove) 4; (2-3) A E Coates (Farnham), Ralph Frederick George Wright (Chailey) 3½, etc.

First Class "A" - Five Day Mornings: (1) R. Littler (Chester) 2½; (2-3) H Clay (Reading), Miss Verina Horsnell (Lee) 2.

First Class "B" - Five Day Mornings (6 entries): (1) Alfred Milner (Manchester) 4½; (2-3) W J Matthews (Bristol), W C Kendal 3½, etc.

First Class "A" - Five Day Afternoons (6 entries): (1) R J Duckett (Sanderstead) 5; (2-3) Miss M Elliott (Stockbridge), J H Brown (Farnborough) 3, etc.

First Class "B" - Five Day Afternoons (6 entries): (1-2) J D Chiswell (Sutton), G Weiner (London) 4; (3) R E Hopkins (Epsom) 3½, etc.

Second Class - Five Day Mornings (6 entries): (1-3) Mrs. W H E Bonney (E. Grinstead), Miss J Curlett (Brierley Hill), W H E Bonney (E. Grinstead) 4, etc.

Major - Six Day Mornings (8 entries): (1-2) Leslie E Vine (Eastleigh), J. Eyre (London) 5½; (3) Donald O Gould (Leicester) 5, etc.

Major - Six Day Afternoons (8 entries): (1) Alastair Ian Ninian Brodie (Eton) 6; (2) Joseph John Lauder (Wimbledon) 5; (3) D J Harper (Hayling Isl.) 4½, etc.

First Class - Six Day Mornings (8 entries): (1-2) Alfred Milner (Manchester), Rev. Henry Middleton Blackett (Hastings) 5; (3-4) L N Weaver (Welling), Miss Annie Hilda Gammans (Shoreham) 4½, etc.

First Class - Six Day Afternoons (10 entries): (1) R J Tyack (Fareham) 6; (2) Mrs. W M Pond (Farnborough) 5; (3-4) J E C Grant (Fareham), H Harding (Chichester) 4, etc.

Second Class - Six Day Afternoons (8 entries): (1) D H Tibbert 7; (2) Sir Anthony Glyn (Alton) 6; (3) Miss Elsie Grace Coulson (Folkestone) 4½, etc.

Open Swiss - Six Day Afternoons (8 entries): (1) W F Everest (Brighton) 6½; (2) W J Matthews (Bristol) 5; (3) Alan Frederick Garner (Fareham) 4½, etc.

Major "A" - Weekend (6 entries): (1) Kenneth George Percy Gunnell (Lightwater) 4½; (2) Frederick Shepcott (Brighton) 3½; (3-4) B W Young (Brighton), Terence Clifford Noyce (Croydon) 3, etc.

Major "B" - Weekend (6 entries): (1) Leopold Winter (Brighton) 4½; (2) J F Watson (Emsworth) 3½; (3) P. Del Nevo (Oxford) 3, etc.

Major Reserves - Weekend (6 entries): (1) B Jones 5; (2) J Pearce (Brighton) 3½; (3) W F Everest (Brighton) 3, etc.

Minor "A" - Weekend (6 entries): (1-2) R I Ross (Bedhampton), H E Gammell (Cheltenham) 4½; (3) N Tidy (Brighton) 3, etc.

Minor "B" - Weekend (6 entries): (1-3) Mrs. Jean M Gunnell (Lightwater), Charles Frederick Gammans (Shoreham), P Ward 4 etc.

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BCM, June 1962: Bognor Regis international Congress.—The tenth annual congress, organized by J. N. Fishlock-Lomax, failed for the first time to beat its previous year’s total entry: 324 players against 387 in 1961; still, of course, a remarkable number. Of greater significance however is the fall off in the entry for the Stevenson Memorial Tournament: not only were there fewer continental masters but the home entry was very much weaker than on previous occasions. This may be due to the comparatively high entry fee (£4 4s.) [equates to about £95 in 2022 - JS], or to the fact that the Stevenson Memorial is perhaps rather too "open"?

The S.C.C.U. Championship was won by D. Sherman (London), whose Sonneborn-Berger count was better than that of A. Brameld (Hampshire).

Southern Counties Women's Championship.—(1-3) Miss K. Northcroft, Miss Shirley Mann, and Mrs. P. van der Bergh.

Southern Counties Championship for Boys Under Eighteen.—(1) Ronald A Harris.

Southern Counties Championship for Girls Under Eighteen.—Miss Gillian Moore.

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Biographical Information

Linda Janet Bott (b 1952, London) - daughter of Raymond and Evelyn Bott, learnt chess at five, won several girls' championship (1960, 1961, 1962 and 1963 London Primary Schools Girls' Championships, 1961, 1962, 1964 London Girls' Under-12 Championship, etc), 1963 London Primary Schools [Open] Champion; 1964, 2nd, London Junior Under-12 Championship; 1964 Surrey County Women's Champion. In 1976 she married and became Linda Bellamy. She moved to the Netherlands in 1995 and took up chess again in 2018. As of December 2024, Dr Linda Bellamy is chairwoman of Hoofddorp Chess Club and has a FIDE rating of 1702. She is a psychologist and has her own company, whitequeen.nl - link to Dutch newspaper article.

Sir Anthony Glyn (né Geoffrey Leo Simon Davson, 1922-1998), writer and author of a 1969 novel about chess, The Dragon Variation. Obituary.

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File Updated

Date	Notes
3 May 2022	Arthur Brameld sent me this collection of games on 3 May. I've added two extra games to the ones Arthur has collected (Wood 0-1 Lehmann, rd 3, which I think comes from StarBase 4.56—I don't know the primary source—and J H Jones 0-1 A Mazitis, rd 4, from BH Wood's Illustrated London news column) plus four part-games culled from a CHESS Magazine winning continuation feature and BH Wood's ILN column). So, at the start, we have 60 complete game scores; 4 part-games; and 66 stubs, which show the first few moves of the opening and give the length of the game. The total games played was 196. This has been a labour of love for Arthur and he's done well to collect all the games played by Bernard Cafferty, Owen Hindle, Peter Lee, Norman Stephenson and Roger Paige (though not all his own games!). Many thanks to Arthur for sharing this with BritBase - much appreciated. It would be good if BritBase readers could hunt down a few more game scores. BTW, I have also added a game from the SCCU Under-14 Championship which was held alongside at Bognor.
4 May 2022	Added some more games from the SCCU Under-14 Championship: Brian Denman sent me his draw with Ray Keene, which reminded me that there are more RD Keene games to be found on chessgames.com: I've added his wins against K Evans, M Marsh and MG Fountain. Thanks to Brian for the game and also for the correction to his younger brother's name (Tony Denman played in the under-12 section).
4 May 2022	Ulrich Tamm has contributed two part-games: (1) J Mills 0-1 I Nemet (rd 1) though the position on the board at the start of the game (looks like a King's Indian Defence) conflicts with the description of the opening given in CHESS (a Sicilian Najdorf with 6 Be2) - but see the entry below dated 26 May 2022); (2) J.Rosse 0-1 W.Mandel (rd 5). Many thanks to Ulrich.
26 May 2022	Corrections applied: it turns out that the final part of the Mills-Nemet game posted on 4 May 2022 was actually the final part of Abrahams-Brameld from the same round which already appears in the file. It seems that Deutche Schachzeitung confused these games. My thanks to Arthur Brameld for pointing this out, and also drawing my attention to the correct venue, which was the Rex Ballroom, Bognor Regis. Incidentally, Ken Norman posted a very useful and informative note on the Bognor Regis event in the English Chess Forum some years ago. In it he tells us that the tournament ran for 17 years (1953-1969), was held at the Southdean Sports Club, Middleton-on-Sea (1953-56), the Rex Ballroom (1957-62) and the Princes Ballroom, Butlins, Bognor (1963-69). Ken also mentions its founder and chief organiser J Norman Fishlock-Lomax who died on 24 March 1971, aged only 63, who deserves to be remembered for his work on this excellent and fondly-remembered event.
26 January 2023	Added a game from the SCCU Under-18 Championship, found at chessgames.com: P.Collacott 0-1 J.Hardinge (U18, rd 6).
13 December 2024	Added two games: (1) M Ford 0-1 R Harris, SCCU U18; (2) G Curzon 0-1 J Lintott, SCCU U12 Boys.