1st World Junior (Under-20) Chess Championship, Birmingham/Coventry¹, 11-22 June 1951

1951 World Junior Championship Birmingham/Coventry		Fed	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Total
1	Borislav Ivkov	Yugoslavia	◊ 1/8	♦ 1/11	◊ 1/2	♦ 1/12	♦ ½/7	◊ 1/10	♦ 1/6	◊ 1/5	♦ ½/3	♦ 1/9	♦ ½/4	9½
2	Malcolm Neil Barker	England	◊ 1/17	♦ 1/9	♦ 0/1	◊ 1/6	◊ 1/4	♦ ½/7	◊ 1/12	♦ ½/3	♦ 1/5	◊ ½/8	♦ ½/11	8
3	Raul Ceferino Cruz	Argentina	♦ 1/5	◊ 0/7	♦ ½/14	◊ ½/16	♦ ½/6	◊ 1/13	♦ 1/4	◊ ½/2	◊ ½/1	♦ 1/11	♦ ½/8	7
4	Bo Emil Nyren	Finland	♦ 1/6	◊ ½/10	♦ ½/7	◊ 1/5	♦ 0/2	♦ ½/12	◊ 0/3	◊ 1/14	♦ ½/15	♦ 1/16	◊ ½/1	6½
5	Peter A Harris	England	◊ 0/3	♦ 1/14	◊ 1/11	♦ 0/4	◊ ½/12	♦ 1/9	◊ 1/7	♦ 0/1	◊ 0/2	♦ 1/17	♦ 1/18	6½
6	Bent Larsen	Denmark	◊ 0/4	♦ 1/17	◊ 1/9	♦ 0/2	◊ ½/3	♦ 1/15	◊ 0/1	♦ 0/11	◊ 1/13	♦ 1/18	◊ 1/14	6½
7	Sylvain Burstein	France	◊ ½/12	♦ 1/3	◊ ½/4	♦ 1/8	◊ ½/1	◊ ½/2	♦ 0/5	♦ ½/9	◊ ½/11	♦ ½/10	◊ ½/15	6
8	Edwin Bhend	Switzerland	♦ 0/1	◊ 1/13	♦ ½/16	◊ 0/7	♦ 0/10	◊ 1/18	◊ 1/15	♦ 1/12	◊ ½/9	♦ ½/2	◊ ½/3	6
9	Edgar Selzer	Austria	♦ 1/16	◊ 0/2	♦ 0/6	◊ 1/18	♦ 1/11	◊ 0/5	♦ 1/14	◊ ½/7	♦ ½/8	◊ 0/1	♦ 1/17	6
10	Willy Rosen	W Germany	◊ 1/15	♦ ½/4	◊ 0/12	♦ ½/13	◊ 1/8	♦ 0/1	◊ ½/11	♦ 0/17	◊ 1/18	◊ ½/7	♦ 1/16	6
11	Fridrik Olafsson	Iceland	♦ 1/13	◊ 0/1	♦ 0/5	◊ 1/14	◊ 0/9	♦ 1/16	♦ ½/10	◊ 1/6	♦ ½/7	◊ 0/3	◊ ½/2	5½
12	Grant Berriman	Australia	♦ ½/7	◊ 1/18	♦ 1/10	◊ 0/1	♦ ½/5	◊ ½/4	♦ 0/2	◊ 0/8	◊ ½/17	♦ 1/15	♦ ½/13	5½
13	Lionel Berry Joyner	Canada	◊ 0/11	♦ 0/8	◊ 1/17	◊ ½/10	♦ 1/16	♦ 0/3	◊ 1/18	♦ ½/15	♦ 0/6	♦ ½/14	◊ ½/12	5
14	Arnold Eikrem	Norway	♦ ½/18	◊ 0/5	◊ ½/3	♦ 0/11	♦ ½/15	◊ 1/17	◊ 0/9	♦ 0/4	♦ ½/16	◊ ½/13	♦ 0/6	3½
15	James J Walsh	Ireland	♦ 0/10	◊ 0/16	♦ ½/18	♦ 1/17	◊ ½/14	◊ 0/6	♦ 0/8	◊ ½/13	◊ ½/4	◊ 0/12	♦ ½/7	3½
16	John Alexander Jackson	Scotland	◊ 0/9	♦ 1/15	◊ ½/8	♦ ½/3	◊ 0/13	◊ 0/11	♦ ½/17	♦ 0/18	◊ ½/14	◊ 0/4	◊ 0/10	3
17	Sven Asker	Sweden	♦ 0/2	◊ 0/6	♦ 0/13	◊ 0/15	♦ ½/18	♦ 0/14	◊ ½/16	◊ 1/10	♦ ½/12	◊ 0/5	◊ 0/9	2½
18	Billy Coosemans	Belgium	◊ ½/14	♦ 0/12	◊ ½/15	♦ 0/9	◊ ½/17	♦ 0/8	♦ 0/13	◊ 1/16	♦ 0/10	◊ 0/6	◊ 0/5	2½

¹ Rounds 1-2 played in Coventry, rounds 3-11 in Birmingham

Eagle-eyed readers will spot that the Scottish representative John Jackson finished with three consecutive whites (not that it did him much good). And that the winner had 4 whites and 7 blacks. This is not a mistake, Tony Gillam assures us in the booklet. He adds, "apparently Larsen believed that the pairings were made in a way that favoured the British contestants. It seems that he objected to the pairings on several occasions and succeeded in getting some changed. These were relatively early days for the Swiss System and the rules on pairings had not evolved to anywhere near the levels they are today."

Gillam's booklet, which contains many annotations and much background material, is highly recommended.

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1951 English Selection Tournament for the World Junior Championship, Birmingham, over Easter [ended 30 March]

1951 BCF Selection Tournament		Residence	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total
1	Malcolm Neil Barker	Birmingham	&;	½	1	1	½	1	½	½	1	1	7
2	Peter Hugh Clarke	London	½	&;	½	½	½	1	½	½	1	1	6
3	Neill Thomas Honan	London	0	½	&;	½	1	½	½	½	1	1	5½
4	Peter A Harris	West Bromwich	0	½	½	&;	1	0	1	0	1	1	5
5	Cyril Pollitt	Bolton	½	½	0	0	&;	1	½	½	½	1	4½
6	Gordon B Lowe	Coventry	0	0	½	1	0	&;	1	½	½	1	4½
7	(Alastair) Brian Walden	West Bromwich	½	½	½	0	½	0	&;	1	1	½	4½
8	Norman Littlewood	Sheffield	½	½	½	1	½	½	0	&;	1	0	4½
9	Walter Charles Marshall	Cardiff	0	0	0	0	½	½	0	0	&;	1	2
10	L G Green	Birmingham	0	0	0	0	0	0	½	1	0	&;	1½

Played during the 1951 Birmingham Easter Congress.

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File updated

Date	Notes
28 February 2020	Initial upload. Games taken from the tournament booklet "First International Junior 1950 / First World Junior Championship, Birmingham 1951" edited by Tony Gillam and first published in 2014. My thanks to Tony Gillam for sending me the booklet. There is one missing game (Berriman-Asker, Rd 9), one clearly incomplete/inaccurate score (Rosen-Bhend, Rd 5), and one or two other scores with possible problems. The booklet says the game scores were collected by three of the participants, Larsen, Eikrem and Bhend. Some of Gillam's scores do not tally with those published by ChessBase, and I have made a note of occasions where this happens.
20 June 2022	Added four games from the Selection Tournament held by the BCF in Birmingham to decide the English qualifier for the World Junior Championship, plus a crosstable.