1899 Craigside Class 1

1899 Craigside Class 1		Residence	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Total
1	Amos Burn	Liverpool	&;	½	1	1	1	1	½	1	1	1	1	(1)	9
2	Henry Ernest Atkins	Leicester	½	&;	1	1	½	0	½	1	1	1	1	-	7½
3	George Adolphus Schott	Aberystwyth	0	0	&;	0	1	1	0	1	1	1	1	-	6
4	George Edward Horton Bellingham	Dudley	0	0	1	&;	½	1	1	0	½	1	1	-	6
5	William Hewison Gunston	Cambridge	0	½	0	½	&;	½	½	1	½	1	1	-	5½
6	Bernard Dinwoody Wilmot	Birmingham	0	1	0	0	½	&;	1	1	½	0	1	(1)	5
7	Edward Owen Jones	London	½	½	1	0	½	0	&;	0	1	½	½	(0)	4½
8	Climenson Yelverton Charles Dawbarn	Liverpool	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	&;	1	½	½	-	4
9	Victor Leonard Wahltuch1	Manchester	0	0	0	½	½	½	0	0	&;	1	1	-	3½
10	Anthony Dod	Liverpool	0	0	0	0	0	1	½	½	0	&;	0	-	2
11	William Edward Thrift	Dublin	0	0	0	0	0	0	½	½	0	1	&;	-	2
12	(Rev. John Owen - withdrew)	Liverpool	(0)	-	-	-	-	(0)	(1)	-	-	-	-	&;	-

¹ the table in BCM gives "J V Wahltuch" which could conceivably have been Victor Leonard Wahltuch's brother Julius E Wahltuch, who also played competition chess, but the text (and several newspapers) gives V L Wahltuch and this is most probably correct.

1899 Craigside Class 2

1899 Craigside Class 2		Residence	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total
1	Newman Clissold	New Brighton	&;	1	1	1	½	1	1	1	0	1	7½
2	John Ellis Parry	Shrewsbury	0	&;	0	1	1	½	1	1	1	1	6½
3	Arthur John Mackenzie	Birmingham	0	1	&;	0	1	1	0	1	1	1	6
4	Miss Kate Belinda Finn	London	0	0	1	&;	1	(1)	(1)	1	0	½	5½
5	Mrs Louisa Matilda Fagan née Ballard	London	½	0	0	0	&;	1	1	1	1	0	4½
6	Charles Frederick Lewis	Birmingham	0	½	0	(0)	0	&;	(1)	0	1	1	3½
7	Russell France Bavington Jones	Dover	0	0	1	(0)	0	(0)	&;	1	½	1	3½
8	William Collins	Hereford	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	&;	1	1	3
9	Dr. James Lister	Liverpool	1	0	0	1	0	0	½	0	&;	0	2½
10	Frederick William Forrest	Shrewsbury	0	0	0	½	1	0	0	0	1	&;	2½

The crosstable in BCM does not give the results shown in brackets, nor totals for some of the players, but final scores reported in newspapers seem to confirm the results as shown.

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BCM, February 1899, ppn 72-74

THE CRAIGSIDE CHESS TOURNAMENT.

The Craigside Chess Tournament, 1899, which lasted from January 2nd to 9th, saw for the first time both Mr. Amos Burn and Mr. H. E Atkins competing together in a first-class tournament. The entries, in addition to those two, were Messrs. G. E. H. Bellingham, W. H. Gunston, G. A. Schott, E. O. Jones, B. D. Wilmot. A. Dod, W. E. Thrift, C. Y. C. Dawbarn, V. L. Wahltuch, and also the veteran, Rev. John Owen. The latter, however, withdrew after three rounds in which he lost to Burn and Wilmot, and beat E. O. Jones. His score was cancelled altogether.

Play took place morning and evening, and occasionally—very occasionally—adjourned games were dealt with in the afternoons, but the majority of the players found two sittings a day quite enough. Till Saturday evening the scores were practically level between Messrs. Burn and Atkins, but late on that night Atkins lost to Wilmot, and as he and Burn each drew with Messrs. Jones and Gunston, this loss cost Atkins first prize. The game between Messrs. Atkins and Burn was begun before this, when it looked as though that game was going to decide the tournament.

It was adjourned in a very interesting position, but was never continued, for on Monday night, when the game Atkins and Jones ended in a draw, Burn offered Atkins a draw, which the the latter accepted. He had been conducting a Ruy Lopez attack, and though he had a good game, he realised that with the draw being all Burn wanted, Burn would be pretty sure not to make any mistake in the defence, as his game was in no way compromised.

The openings adopted in this tournament were not quite so much in the usual Ruy Lopez and Queen's side games as generally happens. Atkins introduced the Ponziani several times with success. There was one Evans which Schott won as first player, and he achieved a similar result with a Max Lange. Burn did not resort to the French very much, although he opened regularly with the Queen's Gambit. Wahltuch and Dod each tried 'sporting' openings too frequently for the benefit of their score. Altogether a mass of interesting if not classical games was the out come of the tournament.

Class 2 resulted in N. Clissold, of New Brighton, repeating his last year's win; while J. E. Parry, of Shrewsbury. and formerly of Liverpool North End, was second; and A. J. Mackenzie, of Birmingham, third. Miss Finn finished only half a point behind Mackenzie.

Next year's tournament will probably be run on rather altered lines. It is considered a great point to get it over in a week, and with the increased entry, induced by the spreading abroad of the players of the attractions of the Hydro, this gets every year a more difficult task to accomplish. It is proposed to confine the contest for the championship to winners of first-class tournaments, while there is to be a first-class tournament in addition. We have pleasure in re-producing a portrait of Mr. Amos Burn, and we refer our readers to our issue for October, 1898, for a full sketch of Mr. Burn's chess career.

Messrs. Bellingham and Schott divide third and fourth with 6 each, against the 9 of Mr. Burn, and the 7½ of Mr. Atkins. Mr. Bellingham started very badly, and yet came out with a decent score, the play ending as he came into form. Mr. Wilmot's 5 [misprinted as "8"] is not bad in such company, and his win from Mr. Atkins was a creditable performance.

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File Updated

Date	Notes
26 March 2025	First upload: 24 games and 1 stub from the Class 1 tournament, one game from the Class 2 tournament and a consultation game played during the event. Plus crosstables and BCM report.
27 March 2025	Added the game G Schott 1-0 C Dawbarn, contributed by Gerard Killoran, for which many thanks.