1966/67 Hastings Premier, 28 December 1966 - 6 January 1967, Falaise Hall

1966/67 Hastings Premier		Fed	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total
1	Mikhail Botvinnik	USSR	&;	½	½	1	1	1	1	0	½	1	6½
2	Wolfgang Uhlmann	GDR	½	&;	1	0	1	½	½	½	½	1	5½
3	Michael J Basman	ENG	½	0	&;	1	0	½	1	½	1	½	5
4	Bojan Kurajica	YUG	0	1	0	&;	½	½	1	½	½	1	5
5	Yuri S Balashov	USSR	0	0	1	½	&;	1	0	1	1	½	5
6	Jonathan Penrose	ENG	0	½	½	½	0	&;	1	½	½	1	4½
7	Henrique Mecking	BRA	0	½	0	0	1	0	&;	1	½	1	4
8	Raymond D Keene	ENG	1	½	½	½	0	½	0	&;	½	0	3½
9	William R Hartston	ENG	½	½	0	½	0	½	½	½	&;	0	3
10	Moshe Czerniak	ISR	0	0	½	0	½	0	0	1	1	&;	3

First prize was £150, 2nd £60, 3-5th £21 13s 4d each. Note that two games from round 8, Hartston-Penrose & Keene-Kurajica, were played three days in advance on a rest day to allow the English players to attend a function on the day of the 8th round.

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1966/67 Hastings Challengers, 28 December 1966 - 7 January 1967, Falaise Hall

1966/67 Hastings Challengers		Fed	Residence	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Total	S/B
1	Predrag Ostojic	YUG	Yugoslavia	w32+	b12+	w7+	b9+	w2=	b3+	b15+	w4+	b11+	8½
2	Gennadi A Timoscenko	USSR	USSR	b5=	w23+	b11+	w4+	b1=	b12+	w3+	b9+	w7+	8
3	Piet van der Weide	NED	Netherlands	b26=	w28+	b20+	b18+	w9+	w1-	b2-	w8+	b4=	6
4	Michael A Stevenson	ENG	Wolverhampton	w16=	b22+	w6+	b2-	b24+	w15=	w10+	b1-	w3=	5½	36.00
5	Pank A Hoogendoorn	NED	Netherlands	w2=	b18=	b8=	w26=	w6-	b22=	w21+	b17+	w16+	5½	24.75
6	Werner Nicolai	FRG	West Germany	b13=	w26+	b4-	w19-	b5+	b20=	w16=	b22+	b15+	5½	24.25
7	George S Botterill	ENG	Shipley	b31+	w25+	b1-	w15-	b30+	w11+	w9=	b23+	b2-	5½	20.00
8	Dennis Morton Horne	ENG	Kidderminster	w29=	b16=	w5=	b21=	w17+	b10=	w12+	b3-	w9=	5	23.00
9	Kjell Erik Krantz	SWE	Sweden	b15+	b21+	w10+	w1-	b3-	w26+	b7=	w2-	b8=	5	22.25
10	Alan H Perkins	ENG	Leeds	b11+	w30+	b9-	w24=	b19+	w8=	b4-	w15=	b12=	5	20.75
11	Dr. Ulrich Jahr	FRG	West Germany	w10-	b14+	w2-	b25+	w22+	b7-	w29+	b19+	w1-	5	20.00
12	Louis de Veauce	ENG	Pirbright	b19+	w1-	b25+	w30+	b15=	w2-	b8-	w20+	w10=	5	19.25
13	Terry D Baldwin	ENG	London	w6=	b17=	w18-	b22-	w25+	b29-	b31+	w28+	w19+	5	18.00
14	Manfred Krause	FRG	West Germany	w21-	w11-	b32=	b17-	w31+	w27+	b28=	b29+	w23+	5	14.75
15	(William) Arthur Winser	ENG	Hastings	w9-	b31+	w16+	b7+	w12=	b4=	w1-	b10=	w6-	4½	19.75
16	Percy B Cook	ENG	London	b4=	w8=	b15-	w28=	b27=	w24+	b6=	w26+	b5-	4½	18.75
17	Norman G Hammond	ENG	Hastings	b23=	w13=	b24-	w14+	b8-	w30+	b20=	w5-	b26+	4½	17.50
18	Bernard Cafferty	ENG	Birmingham	b28=	w5=	b13+	w3-	b20=	w19-	b26-	w27+	w21=	4	16.75
19	Svend Ove Van Seelen	DEN	Denmark	w12-	b27=	w29+	b6+	w10-	b18+	w23=	w11-	b13-	4	16.25
20	Gerard Gorse	FRA	France	w22=	b29+	w3-	b23=	w18=	w6=	w17=	b12-	w25=	4	16.00
21	David E Lloyd	ENG	London	b14+	w9-	b30-	w8=	b28-	w31+	b5-	w24+	b18=	4	15.50
22	Michael J Conroy	ENG	Burnley	b20=	w4-	b28=	w13+	b11-	w5=	b24=	w6-	32+	4	14.75
23	Peter Campbell Gibbs	ENG	Sutton Coldfield	w17=	b2-	w27+	w20=	b26=	w28+	b19=	w7-	b14-	4	14.50
24	Terance W Hart	ENG	London	w25-	b32+	w17+	b10=	w4-	b16-	w22=	b21-	w29+	4	13.50
25	John W Naylor	ENG	Leeds	b24+	b7-	w12-	w11-	b13-	w32+	b30=	w31+	b20=	4	10.75
26	(Philip) Stuart Milner-Barry	ENG	London	w3=	b6-	w31+	b5=	w23=	b9-	w18+	b16-	w17-	3½	13.75
27	Roger L Paige	ENG	London	w30-	w19=	b23-	b29=	w16=	b14-	w32+	b18-	w28+	3½	10.25
28	Leo Gusel	YUG	Yugoslavia	w18=	b3-	w22=	b16=	w21+	b23-	w14=	b13-	b27-	3	12.75
29	Peter C Griffiths	ENG	Solihull	b8=	w20-	b19-	w27=	b32+	w13+	b11-	w14-	b24-	3	10.75
30	David Lees	ENG	Bury	b27+	b10-	w21+	b12-	w7-	b17-	w25=	b32-	w31-	2½
31	Peter W Hempson	ENG	London	w7-	w15-	b26-	w32+	b14-	b21-	w13-	b25-	b30+	2
32	Immo Engert	FRG	West Germany	b1-	w24-	w14=	b31-	w29-	b25-	b27-	w30+	22-	1½

Table taken from the one published in BCM, February 1967, p43, with some corrections applied. It has not been possible to determine the colours of the last-round game between Conroy and Engert as both were shown in non-bold in BCM, denoting Black. First prize £60, 2nd £40, 3rd £15, 4-7th £3 15s each.

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General Congress

Main A: (1) Harry Lamb (Bolton) 7½/9; (2) Kjell Vannrud 6½; (3) Heinrich Jühe (FRG) 5½; (4-5) (Derek) George Ellison (Bolton), Robert P Ross (Hull) 4½; (6-7) Charles Ambrose Scott Damant (Hastings), Walter James E Yeeles 4; (8) Dr. Reinhard Cherubim (FRG) 3½; (9) (Reginald) Graham Thimann (Nottingham) 3; (1) Lewis Johnstone Mills 2. (First two earn right to play in Challengers’ next year).

Main B: (1) R(onald Hanno?) Watson (London) 7/8; (2) Alan John Dilworth (Lowton) 5½; (3-4) Martyn J Corden (Bolton), John M Ripley (Liverpool) 4½; (5) R van den Enden (NED) 4; (6) Peter R Hindley 3½; (7-8) John H Jones (Gosport), Alan Edgar Nield (St Leonards) 3; (9) John Bertram Goodman (Plymouth) 1.

Main C: (1) Joseph¹ Andrew Flood (Torquay) 6/8; (2) John B Sellens (Tunbridge Wells) 5½; (3) Ronald H W Polley (Marlow) 5; (4-5) Richard G Eales (Chester), Hector Andrew Hamilton Steen (Bedford) 4½; (6-7) Christopher W Johns, Arthur Philip Primett (Haywards Heath) 3; (8) Julian Francis T Kirk O’Grady (Alderley Edge) 2½; (9) James Rushton (Stockport) 2. (¹ Joseph Andrew Flood, b 13 December 1912 (Ulster), d 1978 (Birmingham), was a Customs & Excise official - I had prevously mistakenly believed him to have been called John A Flood, but it is quite clear from press reports that he was Joseph)

Main D: (1) John A Henley (St Albans) 6½/9; (2-3) Robert Bellin, J Gordon Lloyd (Ramsgate) 6; (4) Brian A M Piggott 5½; (5) Geoffrey F Steele 5; (6) Michael Goll (Skegness) 4½; (7) William Bainbridge (Wilmslow) 4; (8-9) Albert Victor Lightfoot, P J Smith 3½; (10) Gerald Frederick Morrish 5.

Main E: (1-2) Paul F Habershon (Bath), Philip V Wade (Leeds) 7/9; (3-4) Leslie S F Blackstock (Bewdley), Timothy D Harding (Droitwich) 6; (5) Paul A Hutchinson (Brigg) 5; (6-7) Sydney Ross Capsey (New Barnet), D Watt 4; (8) John Johnson (Liverpool) 3½; (9) Roger L Baker (Bakewell) 2½; (10) Roger K Horsgood (Maidenhead) 0.

Main F: (1) Timothy S Wickens (Ilkley) 8/9; (2-3) Keith Maudsley (Blackburn), (Louis) Alan Edwards (Leicester) 7; (4) Alfred Milner (Manchester) 6; (5) W Paul Taylor (Smethwick) 5; (6) Brian F O'Sullivan (Aberystwyth) 3; (7) G F Pelling 2½; (8-10) Nigel W Dennis (Henley), T F Johns (Bournemouth), Robert G Jones (Coventry) 2.

Main G: (1) Michael P F Singleton (Hythe) 7/9; (2) Michael J Meakin (Northwich) 6½; (3) Clemens Palme Dutt (Folkestone) 6; (4) Miss Olive Richards (Harrow) 5½; (5) A Torn (Belvedere) 4½; (6-7) P Parkhurst/Parkhouse (California), Truman Victor Parrott 4; (8-9) Thomas Eagle Lovell Chataway (Stourbridge), George William Henlen (Ashtead) 3½; (10) Arthur T Watson (Worthing) ½.

Main H: (1) C Wright (Otley) 8/9; (2-3) R J Goldsmith, John M B Scott (Sunderland) 6; (4-5) Gregory Owen John Melitus, I Morris (London) 5; (6) S Rymarz 4½; (7) M Saphir (London) 4; (8) S C Zaiker (London) 3½; (9) Richard D Jeffery 2; (10) S Thorpe 1.

Main Afternoon A: (1) John Neil Sugden (London) 7/9; (2-3) Graham Edward Clements, Simon Webb (Oxted) 6; (4) Richard C Lemon 5½; (5-6) Dr. Werner Alles (West Germany), Raymond G Lee (Nottingham) 5; (7) David M Adams (Nuneaton) 4½; (8) Rainer Wittmann (West Germany) 4; (9-10) James Bernard Adams, T Jones (Cardiff) 1. (Winner earns right to play in Challengers’ next year.)

Main Afternoon B: (1) Norman A Hutchinson (Brigg) 7½/9; (2) Miss Eileen Betsy Tranmer (Acton) 6; (3) Robin A E Shaw 5½; (4) John A Felton 5; (5-6) Leslie Edward Vine, Alfred Dempster Whyte 4½; (7-8) Richard Edward Boxall, Richard Charles Winter 3½; (9) John Myles Gorton 3; (10) Rev. Henry Middleton Blackett 2.

Open Morning: (1) L Burrows (Cheltenham) 6/8; (2) Johannes Cornelius Kuiken (Chipstead) 5½; (3-4) Mrs I Morris (London), E Peck 5; (5) H G Exell 4½; (6) Ronald Canter (Sunderland) 4; (7-8) William Edward Busbridge, J Parry 2½; (9) Mrs Laura Ethel Amelia Start (née Whitehouse) 1.

Open Afternoon: (1-2) Reginald John Manfield, Ronald Ernest Rushbrook (South Norwood) 6½/8; (3) Miss Margaret Eleanor Lander (Gillingham, Dorset) 6; (4) D A Hutchinson 5; (5) Claud Vernal Warter Lucas (St Leonards) 4; (6) Mrs Jane Sadler Rees (Northampton) 3; (7-8) G Burnett (Worcester), Miss Elsie Grace Coulson 2; (9) Miss E Whyte 1 (a 10th player, Mrs Millicent Louise Battrum of St Leonards, must have dropped out early on)

Christmas A: (1) Martin Harold Hawley 4/5; (2) Graham Russell Mitchell (Chobham) 3½; (3-4) Hon. Julian Alexander Hardinge, John Dudley Taylor 2½; (5) B C Wyatt 1½; (6) Michael J Rose 1.

Christmas B: (1) Ewart J Smith 4/6; (2) Lucien Mouillaux (France) 3½; (3) R T Berry 3; (4) Walter R Rayner 2; (5) C W Bryan 1½; (6) C Hales 1.

Christmas C: (1) R Hulme 4/5; (2) S C Downton 3½; (3) D J Towers 3; (4) E Chambers 2½; (5) Brian Stevenson (Liverpool) 1½; (6) C Hann (Hastings) ½.

Christmas D: (1) Christopher Bruce (London) 5/5; (2) Robert Littler (Chester) 3½; (3-4) John Lambert-Gorwyn, J Weston 2½; (5) P A Bond 1; (6) Mrs V Clement 5.

Christmas Afternoon: (1) Albert Edward Oram, MP (East Ham) 4/5; (2-3) H C Lewis (Purley), Brian Yare (St Andrews Univ) 3½; (4) J B Illingworth 3; (5) P Ganszczyk 1; (6) D E Jones (Chester) 0.

New Year A: (1) Peter Moore (Heald Green) 4/5; (2-3) Laurie A J Glyde, Andrew Rowland B Thomas (Tiverton) 3½; (4-5) C W Anderton, Jack Alfred Speigel 2; (6) R J Braunton 0.

New Year B: (1) Victor Norman Rains (Cambridge) 4½/5; (2) Eric Wilfred Knapp 3; (3) John Herring (Oundle) 2½; (4-5) Christopher D Carr, H T Ennis (London) 2; (6) T W Baxter (London) 1.

New Year C: (1) Michael F McNaughton (Liverpool) 3½/5; (2-4) H B Howard (Chertsey), William B Turner (Chester), David A R Vallat (Ramsgate) 2½; (5-6) R Sheppard (Bognor), K A Wareing (Liverpool) 2.

New Year D: (1) Edwin L Hughes (Prescot & Knotty Ash, Liverpool) 5/5; (2-4) J B Ansermoz (Zurich SUI), Arthur Cecil Finney (Stoke-on-Trent), S H Holdcroft (Chester) 2½; (5) Maurice David Speigel (Westcliff) 2; (6) J Wright (Ilford) ½.

New Year E: (1) R Bullock (London) 4/5; (2) John N Gibb (White Waltham / Dean Close School, Cheltenham) 3½; (3) Rev. E A Bailey (Wadhurst) 3; (4) Rupert S Tipples (Staplehurst) 2½; (5-6) Laurence P R Meering (Ramsgate), Christopher J Plowright (Ramsgate) 1.

New Year Afternoon: (1) Sydney Gothard (Burton-on-Trent) 4½/5; (2) E Chambers (St Leonards) 4; (3) Jonathan G Westphal (Crowborough) 3½; (4-6) Nigel S A Grimwade (Tunbridge Wells), Mrs J Parry (London), A Towner (St Leonards) 1.

New Year Late Extra: (1) Richard J D Power 4/5; (2-3) D Cammell, Roy Alan Wagstaff 3½; (4) John G Collins (Nottingham) 3; (5) R Quay(e) 1; (6) Peter R Rooke (Gravesend) 0.

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File Updated

Date	Notes
1997	45 Premier games uploaded as part of a collection of 1960s Hastings games in zipped PGN format.
14 July 2024	Uploaded with 30 games from the Challengers and 8 from other sections, crosstables, results.
14 July 2024	Two further games from the Challengers: (1) P.Gibbs 1-0 L.Gusel (rd 6); (2) R.Paige 1-0 L.Gusel (rd 9). Many thanks to Andy Ansel for supplying these games.
14 July 2024	Three more games received, from Ulrich Tamm, for which many thanks: (1) W.Nicolai 1-0 P.S.Milner-Barry (Challengers, rd 2); (2) P.Hoogendoorn 0-1 W.Nicolai (Challengers, rd 5); (3) R.Wittmann 1-0 D.Adams (Main PM A, rd 8).