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Tournament: 42nd British Chess Championship • 80 of a possible 198 games (plus 1 fragment, 6 games from subsidiary events)
Venue: Aberystwyth • Dates: 22 August - 2 Sept 1955Download PGNLast Edited: Sunday 5 February, 2023 6:41 PMBulletin PDF

1955 British Chess Championship, Aberystwyth, 22 August - 2 September 1954« »1956

1955 British Chess Championship Residence 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11  Total 
1 Harry Golombek Chalfont St Giles ♦ ½/5 ◊ 1/25 ♦ 1/28 ◊ 1/3 ♦ ½/7 ◊ ½/4 ♦ 1/15 ◊ 0/2 ♦ 1/24 ◊ 1/10 ♦ 1/12
2 Robert Graham Wade London/NZ ◊ 1/32 ♦ ½/8 ◊ ½/17 ♦ ½/12 ◊ 0/5 ◊ 1/9 ♦ 1/6 ♦ 1/1 ◊ 1/15 ♦ ½/7 ♦ 1/3 8
3 Barry,Philip Stuart Milner London ◊ 1/11 ♦ ½/4 ◊ 1/8 ♦ 0/1 ◊ ½/20 ◊ ½/17 ♦ 1/16 ♦ 1/28 ◊ 1/7 ♦ 1/5 ◊ 0/2
4 Alan Phillips London ♦ 1/31 ◊ ½/3 ◊ 1/24 ♦ ½/15 ◊ 1/6 ♦ ½/1 ◊ 1/5 ♦ 0/7 ♦ ½/10 ◊ 1/16 ♦ ½/9
5 Frank Parr Sutton ◊ ½/1 ♦ ½/33 ♦ 1/30 ◊ 1/24 ♦ 1/2 ◊ 1/7 ♦ 0/4 ◊ ½/10 ♦ 1/8 ◊ 0/3 ♦ 1/16
6 Brian J Moore Birmingham ◊ 0/8 ♦ 1/11 ◊ 1/14 ◊ 1/31 ♦ 0/4 ♦ ½/24 ◊ 0/2 ◊ 1/26 ♦ ½/12 ♦ 1/15 ◊ 1/7 7
7 Jonathan Penrose London ♦ 1/10 ◊ 1/26 ◊ ½/15 ♦ 1/16 ◊ ½/1 ♦ 0/5 ◊ 1/18 ◊ 1/4 ♦ 0/3 ◊ ½/2 ♦ 0/6
8 Andrew Rowland Benedick Thomas Tiverton ♦ 1/6 ◊ ½/2 ♦ 0/3 ◊ ½/28 ♦ 1/29 ◊ ½/16 ◊ ½/24 ♦ 1/17 ◊ 0/5 ♦ ½/11 ◊ 1/15
9 Michael John Haygarth Leeds ◊ 0/15 ♦ ½/19 ◊ 1/23 ♦ 1/27 ◊ 0/18 ♦ 0/2 ◊ 1/32 ♦ ½/11 ◊ 1/17 ♦ 1/25 ◊ ½/4
10 James Macrae Aitken Cheltenham ◊ 0/7 ♦ 1/18 ◊ 1/29 ♦ 0/17 ◊ 1/31 ◊ 1/20 ♦ ½/12 ♦ ½/5 ◊ ½/4 ♦ 0/1 ◊ ½/11 6
11 Arnold Yorwarth Green London ♦ 0/3 ◊ 0/6 ◊ 1/34 ♦ 1/14 ◊ 1/21 ♦ 0/12 ♦ ½/20 ◊ ½/9 ♦ 1/28 ◊ ½/8 ♦ ½/10 6
12 Michael J Franklin London ♦ 0/26 ♦ 1/36 ◊ 1/33 ◊ ½/2 ♦ ½/16 ◊ 1/11 ◊ ½/10 ♦ 0/15 ◊ ½/6 ♦ 1/24 ◊ 0/1 6
13 Percy Baldwin Cook London ◊ ½/27 ♦ 1/23 ◊ 0/16 ♦ 0/18 ◊ ½/30 ♦ ½/22 ◊ ½/21 ♦ 1/33 ◊ ½/25 ♦ 1/29 ◊ ½/19 6
14 (Nicholas) Anthony Perkins London ◊ 1/19 ♦ 0/15 ♦ 0/6 ◊ 0/11 ◊ ½/34 ♦ 0/25 ◊ 1/36 ♦ ½/27 ◊ 1/35 ♦ 1/30 ◊ 1/24 6
15 Thomas John Beach Liverpool ♦ 1/9 ◊ 1/14 ♦ ½/7 ◊ ½/4 ♦ 1/17 ♦ ½/18 ◊ 0/1 ◊ 1/12 ♦ 0/2 ◊ 0/6 ♦ 0/8
16 Baruch Harold Wood Sutton Coldfield ♦ ½/20 ◊ 1/21 ♦ 1/13 ◊ 0/7 ◊ ½/12 ♦ ½/8 ◊ 0/3 ♦ 1/19 ◊ 1/30 ♦ 0/4 ◊ 0/5
17 Peter Hugh Clarke Ilford ♦ ½/28 ◊ 1/20 ♦ ½/2 ◊ 1/10 ◊ 0/15 ♦ ½/3 ♦ ½/29 ◊ 0/8 ♦ 0/9 ◊ 1/31 ♦ ½/22
18 John Spencer Purdy Australia ♦ ½/25 ◊ 0/10 ♦ 1/22 ◊ 1/13 ♦ 1/9 ◊ ½/15 ♦ 0/7 ◊ 0/24 ♦ ½/29 ♦ ½/19 ◊ ½/21
19 Leonard William Barden London ♦ 0/14 ◊ ½/9 ♦ ½/21 ♦ ½/33 ◊ ½/27 ◊ ½/26 ♦ 1/22 ◊ 0/16 ♦ 1/20 ◊ ½/18 ♦ ½/13
20 George Shorrock Ashcombe Wheatcroft London ◊ ½/16 ♦ 0/17 ◊ 1/25 ◊ 1/26 ♦ ½/3 ♦ 0/10 ◊ ½/11 ♦ 0/30 ◊ 0/19 ♦ 1/36 ◊ 1/29
21 Kenneth William Lloyd Birmingham ◊ ½/23 ♦ 0/16 ◊ ½/19 ♦ 1/35 ♦ 0/11 ◊ 0/29 ♦ ½/13 ◊ 1/32 ♦ ½/22 ◊ 1/28 ♦ ½/18
22 Reginald Walter Bonham Worcester ◊ 1/36 ♦ 0/24 ◊ 0/18 ♦ ½/30 ♦ ½/26 ◊ ½/13 ◊ 0/19 ♦ 1/35 ◊ ½/21 ♦ 1/27 ◊ ½/17
23 Edward Guthlac Sergeant Kingston Hill ♦ ½/21 ◊ 0/13 ♦ 0/9 ♦ 1/25 ◊ ½/33 ◊ ½/27 ♦ 0/26 ♦ 0/34 ◊ 1/36 ♦ 1/35 ◊ 1/31
24 Gerald Abrahams Liverpool ◊ 1/34 ◊ 1/22 ♦ 0/4 ♦ 0/5 ◊ 1/28 ◊ ½/6 ♦ ½/8 ♦ 1/18 ◊ 0/1 ◊ 0/12 ♦ 0/14 5
25 Stanley Clifford Davey Ipswich ◊ ½/18 ♦ 0/1 ♦ 0/20 ◊ 0/23 ♦ 1/36 ◊ 1/14 ♦ 1/27 ◊ ½/29 ♦ ½/13 ◊ 0/9 ♦ ½/26 5
26 Peter Campbell Gibbs Bradford ◊ 1/12 ♦ 0/7 ◊ ½/27 ♦ 0/20 ◊ ½/22 ♦ ½/19 ◊ 1/23 ♦ 0/6 ◊ ½/33 ♦ ½/34 ◊ ½/25 5
27 J Neale Cheltenham ♦ ½/13 ◊ ½/35 ♦ ½/26 ◊ 0/9 ♦ ½/19 ♦ ½/23 ◊ 0/25 ◊ ½/14 ♦ 1/32 ◊ 0/22 ♦ 1/34 5
28 Stefan Fazekas Buckhurst Hill ◊ ½/17 ♦ 1/29 ◊ 0/1 ♦ ½/8 ♦ 0/24 ◊ 1/33 ♦ 1/30 ◊ 0/3 ◊ 0/11 ♦ 0/21 ◊ ½/32
29 Harold Israel London ◊ 1/30 ◊ 0/28 ♦ 0/10 ♦ 1/32 ◊ 0/8 ♦ 1/21 ◊ ½/17 ♦ ½/25 ◊ ½/18 ◊ 0/13 ♦ 0/20
30 John H Beaty Doncaster ♦ 0/29 ♦ 1/34 ◊ 0/5 ◊ ½/22 ♦ ½/13 ♦ 1/31 ◊ 0/28 ◊ 1/20 ♦ 0/16 ◊ 0/14 ♦ ½/35
31 Slade Milan Stockport ◊ 0/4 ♦ 1/32 ◊ 1/35 ♦ 0/6 ♦ 0/10 ◊ 0/30 ♦ 0/33 ◊ 1/36 ◊ 1/34 ♦ 0/17 ♦ 0/23 4
32 Theodore Watts1 Southport ♦ 0/2 ◊ 0/31 ♦ 1/36 ◊ 0/29 ♦ ½/35 ◊ 1/34 ♦ 0/9 ♦ 0/21 ◊ 0/27 ◊ 1/33 ♦ ½/28 4
33 Geoffrey J Martin Ilford ♦ ½/35 ◊ ½/5 ♦ 0/12 ◊ ½/19 ♦ ½/23 ♦ 0/28 ◊ 1/31 ◊ 0/13 ♦ ½/26 ♦ 0/32 ◊ 0/36
34 Joseph Maurice Soesan Ilford ♦ 0/24 ◊ 0/30 ♦ 0/11 ◊ 1/36 ♦ ½/14 ♦ 0/32 ◊ ½/35 ◊ 1/23 ♦ 0/31 ◊ ½/26 ◊ 0/27
35 J Walker Sulhampstead ◊ ½/33 ♦ ½/27 ♦ 0/31 ◊ 0/21 ◊ ½/32 ♦ ½/36 ♦ ½/34 ◊ 0/22 ♦ 0/14 ◊ 0/23 ◊ ½/30 3
36 Arthur Stanley Griffiths Blackwood ♦ 0/22 ◊ 0/12 ◊ 0/32 ♦ 0/34 ◊ 0/25 ◊ ½/35 ♦ 0/14 ♦ 0/31 ♦ 0/23 ◊ 0/20 ♦ 1/33

Geoffrey Martin was ill and defaulted his last-round game against Arthur Griffiths

1 Theodore Watts (born 5 August 1930, Leicester, died 29 September 1964, Salford) was the son of Harold Horace Watts (born 24 June 1892, Stockton-on-Tees, died 2 September 1967, Southport) who played in the 1954 British Championship and 1956 BCF Major Open. Harold was a civil servant, employed by HM Customs & Excise as a surveyor. Theodore was a chemical engineer. They were both living at 45 Crescent Road, Birkdale, Southport, at the time of the 1939 Census.


1955 British Ladies' Chess Championship 1954« »1956

1955 British Ladies Championship Residence 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10  Total 
1= Rowena Mary Bruce (née Dew) Plymouth
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1 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 7
1= Joan Frances Doulton London 0
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½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 7
3 Dorothea Denise Alma (Dody) Bourdillon (née Rodwell) London 1 ½
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1 0 1 1 0 ½ 1 6
4 Mary A E A Henniker-Heaton 1 London 0 0 0
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1 1 ½ 1 1 1
5= Deirdre Colmer London 0 ½ 1 0
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1 ½ 1 0 1 5
5= Sarah Margaret (Peggy) Steedman (née Wilson) Glasgow 1 0 0 0 0
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1 1 1 1 5
7= Leah Margaret Hogarth Glasgow 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0
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1 1 0 3
7= Hilda Florence Chater Belfast 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
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1 1 3
9 Beryl E F Kenyon Cardiff 0 0 ½ 0 1 0 0 0
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1
10 Myrtle Barnes Bromley 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
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1

1 The player's full name was in fact Mary Araluen Elizabeth Anne Henniker-Heaton (1904-1972).

Bruce-Doulton Play-off Match (reported in BCM, November 1955): One win each and two draws - agreed to share title


1955 BCF Major Open

Ranking 1955 BCF Major Open  Total 
1-2 Herbert Gibson Rhodes (Southport), Dr. Jakob Adolf Seitz (Argentina)
3 David Edward Lloyd (Birmingham)
4-5 Peter A Harris (Oldbury), John H Pollitt ((Stockport) 7
6-10 Charles Reuben Gurnhill (Sheffield), Brian Halliwell (Preston), Harry Gethin Thorp Matchett (Birmingham), Victor John Anthony Russ (Birstall), F Smith (Blackburn)
11-13 Richard Frank Holmes (Cambridge), Alan Edgar Nield (St Leonards), Douglas Saunderson (Chesterfield) 6
14-18 Kenneth Leslie Gardner ((Birmingham), Herbert Francis Gook (South Croydon), James Roderick Nicolson (Manchester), John James O’Hanlon (Dublin), Stephen Wilkinson (Loughton)
19-23 Philip Edward Collier (Leicester), B Howard (Blackpool), William Souter Mackie (South Africa), Leonard W Oliver (South Shields), Cyril Owen Welch (Bristol) 5
24-25 Otto Henry Hardy (Batley), Arthur T Watson (Southwick)
26 J Johnson (Liverpool) 4
27 Philip B Sarson (Harrow)
28-29 Harry Booth (Oxford), George Henry Simmons (Scunthorpe)
30 K Marsh (Australia) 2

1955 British Junior [Under 21] Championship.—(1) John Dudley Taylor (Oakham) 10½; (2) Thomas Anselm Landry (London) 10; 3 G. H. Davies (Wallasey) 6½; 4 R. Marshall (Leicester) 5; 5 J Gordon Lloyd (Nottingham) 4; 6-7 R. A. Coulson (Leighton Buzzard), M. J. Walker (Aberystwyth) 3. ["The British Junior Championship tournament had to he rearranged because only 7 of the original 10 competitors were able to play. This compelled the controllers to convert it into a double-round event of 14 rounds and there were two rounds per day on Tuesday 23 Aug, Thursday 25 Aug and Monday 29 Aug." (Bulletin)] n.b. CHESS, 30 September 1955, has different initials, scores and rankings of players from 4th place onwards, thus: 4 A. [sic - think this initial is wrong as R appears throughout the bulletin - JS] Marshall (Leicester) 5; 5 R. A. Coulson (Leighton Buzzard) 4; 6-7 J. G. Lloyd (Nottingham), M. J. Walker (Aberystwyth) 3. N.B. The tournament bulletin does not include results of non-prize-winners.

1955 British Boys’ [Under 18] Championship.—1-2 Clifford G Tayar (Birmingham), David A Tidmarsh (London) 8; 3 Michael Macdonald-Ross (London) 7½; 4-5 J. M. Dawson (Bristol), S. A. Harding (Ipswich) 7; 6-8 W. S. Deeth (London), Bruce J McGreevy (Liverpool), J. B. Thomas (Epsom) 6½; 9-14 Raymond B Edwards (Harrogate), M. Lipton (London), Alan K May (Richmond), R. H. Northage (Quorn), W. S. Powell (Stoke), Michael E Ventham (Southampton) 6; 15-18 C. Burton (Birmingham), Kenneth Hilton (Liverpool), W. Turner (Lewes), John F Wheeler (Plympton) 5½; 19-21 B. J. N. Blight (Plymouth), P. McLaren (Edinburgh), D. K. Peters ((Port Talbot) 5; 22-24 Brian Ewart (Wallasey), Anthony James Leggett1 (Staines), P. M. Thomas (Leicester) 4½; 25 P. M. Hodkinson (Manchester) 3½; 26-27 A. Oakes (Doncaster), A. P. Needham (Denton) 3; 28 G. W. Wheeler (Plympton) 5.
1 Now Sir Anthony James Leggett, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize for Physics - biography.

BCF First Class.—1 (Derek) George Ellison (Bolton) 9½; 2-5 T. Harman (Coventry), Alfred Milner (Didsbury), Rev. Kenneth Stuart Procter (London), C. A. H. Russ (Sutton) 7½; 6-9 G. F. Barnard (Cardiff), Thomas E. L. Chataway (Clent) , A. L. Homer, D. Gould (Leicester) 7; 10-16 J. Bate (Chester), C. Hatch (Southport), Rev. Arthur Percival Lacy-Hulbert (Ludlow), H. S. Littlechild (Wisbech), Patrick Humphrey Sullivan (Dartford), D. Thomas (Bristol), J. W. Thornley (Manchester) 6; 17-19 A. Archer (Stoke), A. H. Kirkman (Liverpool), O. Serck (Knighton) 5½; 20-21 W. J. Matthews (Bristol), Christopher Baruch Wood (Sutton Coldfield) 5; 22-25 B. K. Jeary (Plymouth), H. E. Baxter (Manchester), P. H. Fudge (Bristol), Sir J. C. Walton (Hastings) 4½; 26-28 W. J. C. H. Burges (Blockley), J. Taynton Evans (Newport), G. A. Peck (Rugby) 4; 29 G. G. Homan (Rochester) 3½; 30 H. Taylor (Manchester) 3; 31 P. Laurent 2 (France - withdrew after Round 6); 32 A. Terrett (Norwich) 1½.

BCF Second Class.— 1 F[rederick?] C[larence?] Shorter (London - Islington CC) 8½; 2-3 S. H. Jackson (Liverpool), G. O. J. Melitus (London) 7½; 4 (Rex) Frank T Wood (Sutton Coldfield) 7; 5 L. J. Worsell (Chesterfield) 6½; 6-8 D. R. R. Ellis (Chester), Miss N. Harris (London), R. Samuels (Liverpool) 5½; 9 W. H. Reynolds (Rugby) 4½; 10 T. W. Crabb (Sheffield) 3½; 11 J. E. Mort (Middleton) 2½; 12 J. Salt (Chesterfield) 2.


The 1955 British Girls' Under-18 Championship was held at the Bognor Regis Congress in April 1955. The results were as follows:

1955 British Girls’ Under-18 Championship

1955 British Girls Under-18 Chess Championship Resid. 1 2 3 4 5 6  Total 
 1  Margaret Eileen Elizabeth (Peggy) Wood Sutton Coldfield
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0 1 1 1 1 4
2 Margaret Wood Bicester 1
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0 ½ 1 ½ 3
3 Susan Smith London 0 1
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1 0 1 3
4 June Beckett Bromley 0 ½ 0
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1 1
5 Sheila A Corbyn Birmingham 0 0 1 0
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½
6 E Shirley Mann Birmingham 0 ½ 0 0 ½
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1

Round 1: S Mann ½-½ M Wood; Beckett 0-1 Smith; Corbyn 0-1 P Wood
Round 2: P Wood 1-0 Mann; Smith 0-1 Corbyn; M Wood ½-½ Beckett
Round 3: Mann 0-1 Beckett; Corbyn 0-1 M Wood; P Wood 1-0 Smith
Round 4: Smith 1-0 Mann; M Wood 1-0 P Wood; Beckett 1-0 Corbyn
Round 5: Corbyn ½-½ Mann; P Wood 1-0 Beckett; Smith 1-0 M Wood


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Date Notes
28 March 2018 Two games amended to show the correct date (Milner-Barry-Green, Round 1 and Franklin-Aitken, Round 7)
29 March 2018 Name amendment - 'Moore, BJ' changed to 'Moore, Brian J'
23 September 2020 Some cosmetic changes, plus amended Arthur S Griffiths to Arthur Stanley Griffiths.
10 May 2021 Some more cosmetic changes - added residential info for all players, etc.
10 May 2021 Four more games, from the Aitken collection - Rd 3 v H Israel, Rd 6 v G Wheatcroft, Rd 9 v A Phillips, Rd 11 v AY Green.
27 April 2022 Added two games from the First Class section: (1) Lacy-Hulbert 1-0 Sir John Walton; (2) NN 0-1 Lacy-Hulbert. Contributed by Gerard Killoran via the English Chess Forum, for which many thanks.