1958 (6th) Bognor Regis: Stevenson Memorial, Wednesday 9 April - Saturday 19 April 1958 • 1957«»1959

Venue: Rex Ballroom, Bognor Regis

1958 Stevenson Memorial Bognor Regis			Residence	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total
1	GM	Borislav Ivkov	Yugoslavia	w38+	b10=	w32+	b11+	w2=	b9=	w21+	b3=	w7=	w4+	7½
2	IM	Nikola Karaklajic	Yugoslavia	b22+	w3=	b20+	w5+	b1=	w7=	b12+	w4=	b8+	b9=	7½
3	IM	Robert G Wade (SCCU Champ)	New Zealand	w46+	b2=	w11-	b28+	w35+	b16+	w9+	w1=	b4=	b7+	7½
4		Peter Hugh Clarke	Ilford	b40+	w41+	w16=	b9=	w8+	b23+	w7+	b2=	w3=	b1-	7
5		Herbert Gibson Rhodes1	Southport	w33+	b23+	w9=	b2-	w11=	b21-	w15+	b14+	w10+	b19+	7
6		Borge Andersen	Copenhagen	w15+	b35=	w10-	b13+	w21=	b11+	w8=	b7-	w23+	w16+	6½
7		Dragutin Dimc	Yugoslavia	w18+	b31+	w8+	b16=	w10+	b2=	b4-	w6+	b1=	w3-	6½
8		(Philip) Stuart Milner-Barry	Blackheath	b26+	w19+	b7-	w22+	b4-	w39+	b6=	w12+	w2-	b21+	6½
9	IM	Román Torán Albero	Spain	b13+	w28+	b5=	w4=	b18+	w1=	b3-	w16=	b17+	w2=	6½
10		Leonard William Barden	Surrey	b24+	w1=	b6+	w17+	b7-	w12-	b39=	w25+	b5-	w27+	6
11		Geoffrey F Harris	Stourbridge	b25=	w29+	b3+	w1-	b5=	w6-	b41+	b23=	w20+	w12=	6
12		(Henry) Alec Samuels	London	w43=	b47+	w35=	b26+	w16=	b10+	w2-	b8-	w30+	b11=	6
13		David George Springgay	Brighton	w9-	b36+	b40=	w6-	b34+	w29+	b17=	w19-	b26+	w25+	6
14		Donald Gilbertson	London	b28-	w24=	b42+	w25=	b22=	b31+	w32=	w5-	b18=	w39+	5½
15		Owen M Hindle	Norwich	b6-	w42=	b48+	w20=	b19=	w25=	b5-	w41+	b34+	w17=	5½
16		Donald G Mackay	Balham	b48+	w39+	b4=	w7=	b12=	w3-	b20+	b9=	w21=	b6-	5½
17		Stewart Reuben	London	w47=	b43+	w21+	b10-	w23-	b36+	w13=	b32+	w9-	b15=	5½
18		Jack Dennis Rosse2	London	b7-	w44+	b28+	b35=	w9-	w20-	b29+	w22=	w14=	b30+	5½
19		Eileen Betsy Tranmer	London	w37+	b8-	w26-	b44+	w15=	b38=	w35=	b13+	b39+	w5-	5½
20		Philip Norman Wallis	Warwickshire	w36+	b21=	w2-	b15=	w32=	b18+	w16-	b38+	b11-	w29+	5½
21		Baruch Harold Wood	Sutton Coldfield	b30+	w20=	b17-	w34+	b6=	w5+	b1-	w39+	b16=	w8-	5½
22		Michael Robert Brierley Clarke	Epsom	w2-	+	38+	b8-	w14=	b32-	w??+	b18=	24=	b23=	5
23		Arthur Hall	Kenton, Oxford	34+	w5-	b39=	w29+	b17+	b4-	25=	w11=	b6-	w22=	5
24		David Edward Lloyd	Birmingham	w10-	b14=	w36-	b47+	w30=	b28=	31+	=	22=	=	5
25		Harry Gethin Thorp Matchett	Birmingham	w11=	b32-	w45+	b14=	w26+	b15=	23=	b10-	w38+	b13-	5
26		Arnolds Mazitis	London	w8-		b19+	w12-	b25-	w44?			w13-		5
27		(Patricia) Anne Sunnucks	Woolwich	b39-	w40-	w33+	b36-		w46+		w44+	b32+	b10-	5
28		G Tanfield	London	w14+	b9-	w18-	w3-		w24=					5
29		(Derek) George Ellison	Bolton		b11-		b23-	40+	b13-	w18-		31+	b20-	4½
30		J Eyre	London	w21-		43+	w39-	b24=	b37+			b12-	w18-	4½
31		Michael Philip Furmston	Birmingham	44+	w7-	b34=	w40+	39-	w14-	24-	+	29-	+	4½
32		Thomas Guy	Brighton		w25+	b1-		b20=	w22+	b14=	w17-	w27-		4½
33		Stanley Charles Love	Wimbledon	b5-		b27-			w42+					4½
34		Reginald William Stevenson	Redhill	23-		w31=	b21-	w13-	b43?			w15-		4½
35		George Harold Foster Tredinnick	Barnes	b42+	w6=	b12=	w18=	b3-	w41=	b19=				4½
36		Fred Clough	Birmingham	b20-	w13-	b24+	w27+	b41=	w17-	b44=	-	42+	-	4
37		Ernest George Exell	Watford	b19-		44-			w30-					4
38		Rodney E James	Banstead	b1-		22-			w19=		w20-	b25-		4
39		Per Møller	Copenhagen	w27+	b16-	w23=	b30+	31+	b8-	w10=	b21-	w19-	b14-	4
40		Charles L Tadiello	Bracknell	w4-	b27+	w13=	b31-	29-	w48+					4
41		Alfred Eva	Cheshire		b4-			w36=	b35=	w11-	b15-			3½
42		George William Henlen	Ashtead	w35-	b15=	w14-			b33-			36-		3½
43		John H Manners	Sutton	b12=	w17-	30-		45+	w34?					3½
44		Manfred Reuser	London	31-	b18-	37+	w19-		b26?	w36=	b27-			3½
45		Arthur T Watson	Worthing			b25-		43-	b47?					3
46		Kenneth O Ballard	Reading	b3-					w27-					2½
47		John Crittenden Thompson	Beckenham	b17=	w12-		b24-		w45?					2½
48		(Edward) Douglas Fawcett3	London	w16-		w15-			b40-					1

Only partial crosstables given in both BCM (June 1958, p158) and CHESS (April 1958, p202), as a result of which it has not been possible to present a complete record of results for players finishing on 5 points or less. Newspaper reports have enabled me to find some more results but were not comprehensive.
¹ There is an error in the crosstable in BCM (June 1958, p158): it gives HG Rhodes a white win vs no.23 in round 1 and then a black win vs no.23 in round 2. Other sources show that the rd 2 score details are correct so it is rd 1 which is at fault. We can deduce, from the table in CHESS (April 1956, Vol.23 no.313-4, p202) that his unknown opponent in rd 1 must have been a player who scored fewer than 5 points. EDIT: Ulrich Tamm has evidence to suggest his opponent was SC Love.
² Jack Dennis Rosse changed his name from Jacob Rosselson in 1949. He was a violinist, born 1900 in Lithuania, died 1989.
³ (Edward) Douglas Fawcett (April 1866 - 14 April 1960) would have celebrated his 92nd birthday around the time of this tournament. His last tournament was 1959/60 Hastings Premier Reserves F. Biography by Bob Jones.

Results shown on the CHESS crosstable (or in newspaper reports) where we do not have colours or round numbers: Mazitis 1-0 Tanfield, Tanfield 1-0 Sunnucks, Matchett 1-0 Mazitis, Mazitis ½-½ D.Lloyd

Round 7, 16 April 1958: Peter Clarke vs Dragutin Dimc, position after 11...Nd7. The 25-year-old Croatian player sadly died just three months after this photo was taken, after a bathing accident in the river Sava during a chess tournament in which he was taking part.

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1958 Bognor Ten-Day Championship Reserves

1958 Bognor Championship Reserves		Residence	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total
1	Alan Edgar Nield	St Leonards	&;	½	1	1	½	1	1	1	½	1	7½
2	Dr (Jakob) Adolf Seitz	Germany	½	&;	½	1	1	½	1	1	1	1	7½
3	Roger J Stockwell	London	0	½	&;	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	7½
4	Peter D Briley	Bristol	0	0	0	&;	1	½	1	1	1	1	5½
5	Peter M Shaw	London	½	0	0	0	&;	1	1	1	1	1	5½
6	Ian Christopher Smart	Leatherhead	0	½	0	½	0	&;	0	1	1	1	4
7	Oscar William Serck	Knighton	0	0	0	0	0	1	&;	0	1	1	3
8	H Hoey	Hereford	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	&;	0	1	2
9	Gregory Owen J Melitus	London	½	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	&;	½	2
10	William John Clare Hart Burges	Blockley	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	½	&;	½

1958 Bognor Ten-Day Major

1958 Bognor Major		Residence	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total
1	George L Sutton	Sutton	&;	1	½	½	1	1	1	1	1	1	8
2	Norman W Dunk	Brighton	0	&;	1	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	7
3	George Arthur Peck	Rugby	½	0	&;	1	1	0	½	1	1	1	6
4	W H Mabbs	Orpington	½	1	0	&;	0	½	1	0	1	1	5
5	(Rex) Frank Talbot Wood	Sutton Coldfield	0	0	0	1	&;	1	1	1	0	1	5
6	Frederick W Appleby	Bognor Regis	0	0	1	½	0	&;	0	½	½	1	3½
7	Maj. Charles Dennis Balding	Worthing	0	0	½	0	0	1	&;	0	1	1	3½
8	Anthony G Frish	Staines	0	0	0	1	0	½	1	&;	1	0	3½
9	G Booth	Westcliff	0	0	0	0	1	½	0	0	&;	½	2
10	Richard Edward Boxall	Streatham	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	½	&;	1½

1958 SCCU (Southern Counties Chess Union) Championships

1958 SCCU Boys’ Under-18 Championship.—(1) John F Wheeler (Plymouth) 6/7; (2) Keith M Oliff (Basildon) 5½; (3) M Norman (Cambridge) 4½.

1958 SCCU Girls’ Under 18 Championship (3 entries, double-round).—(1) Verina Horsnell (Woolwich) 3/4; (2-3) Yvonne Guthrie (Bexley Heath), F M Lunn (Bicester) 1½.

1958 SCCU Junior Under-15 Boys’ Championship (Swiss System, 7 rounds, 30 entries).—(1) P O'Brien (Dagenham) 6/7; (2-3) Malcolm J Lester (Streatham), G H Mason (Westgate) 5½; (4-6) Hugh Dowsett (Ipswich), Andrew J Whiteley (Oxford), E. Wilmers (Oxford) 5.

SCCU Junior Girls’ Under-15 Championship (7 rounds Swiss, 10 entries).—(1) Carolyn A Quilter (Southampton) 6/7; (2) Marianne Allwright (Finchley) 6 (lost play-off); (3-4) L Biggs (West Dulwich), V Parsons (Southampton) 5.

OTHER EVENTS

Seven-day Major.—(Morning) (1) P H White (Kettering) 5/7; (2-3) H W S Nicholas (East Sheen), J Worrell (Reading) 4½. (Afternoon) (1) M R Partis (Brighton) 6/7; (2) Wilfred Evans (Bucks) 5; (3) Joseph J Lauder (Wimbledon) 4½.

Seven-day First Class.—(Morning) (1) Alfred Milner (Manchester) 5½/7; (2-3) J Hart (Mortlake), John D Wincer (Shenstone) 5. (Afternoon) (1) J M Croucher 6/7; 2 Anthony Hocking (Worthing) 5½; (3-4) H Clay (Reading), Miss Cicely Grace Snead (Wallington) 5.

Seven-day Second Class.—(Morning) (1-2) Brian Ernest Blandford (Bristol), Robert H Mellor (Stockport) 6½/7); (3) Harry Starbuck Littlechild (Wisbech) 4½. (Afternoon) (1-2) Philip R C Wood (Sutton Coldfield) 6/7; (3) J M Garton (Staines) 5.

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Five-day Major.—(Morning) (1-3) Raymond Bott (Streatham), Roy Thomas Buckland (Shoreham), Wilfred H Pratten (Fareham) 4/5. (Other players included Percival Arthur Cooke) (Afternoon) (1) Michael E Ventham (Farnborough) 5/5; (2) D A Sanders (Guildford) 3½

Five-day First Class.—(Morning) (1) K S Schofield (Kenton) 5/5; (2) F C Shorter (London) 3. (Afternoon) (1) Christopher Baruch Wood (Sutton Coldfield) 5/5; (2) R E Hopkins (London) 3.

Five-day Second Class.—(Morning) (1) G Gardner (Fareham) 4½/5; (2-3) Miss N F Harris (Surbiton), R E A Jackson (Southampton) 3½. (Afternoon) (1) W N Andrews (Ashtead) 5/5; (2) Philip R C Wood (Sutton Coldfield) 4.

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Weekend Open.—(1) John Kenneth Footner (Birmingham) 4/5; (2) Leslie E Vine (Eastleigh) 3½.

Weekend Major.—(1) Leopold Winter (Brighton) 5; (2) Edward David Ovenden (Shoreham) 4.

Weekend Major Reserves.—(1) Sydney Harold Cuzco Lucas (Bournemouth) 4½; (2-3) Gordon Othon Esher (London), G L Pond (London) 3.

Weekend Minor A.— (1) Leonard Shenfield (London) 5/5; (2) R I Ross (Portsmouth) 3.

Weekend Minor B.— (1) Archibald C D Bushell (Chichester) 4/5; (2) L A Humphries (Bognor Regis) 3½.

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BCM, June 1958, p154

Bognor Regis Congress

April 9th to 19th, 1958

By R. G. Wade

Mr. Norman Fishlock-Lomax is not complacent. More and better is what he asks of the Bognor Regis annual congress. Two hundred and seventeen competitors found their way into this year's serious programme and many more participated in the even more sociable evenings and skittles.

One social trend is the increase in the number of children, primary school as well as teenagers. With a number of mums learning, congresses are now for the whole family and that knife-like atmosphere of a British championship congress is absent. Another useful trend is the inclusion of six-player, five-round week-end tourneys catering for the many who do not wish to take days of leave in April. (Even three-round, four-player sections as in Holland are feasible.) The time may come when week-enders will outnumber the accepted congress-goers.

Though the community life of previous congresses at Southdean (outside Bognor) was absent, the change of venue to the Rex Ballroom in the town itself was readily accepted.

The Stevenson Memorial Tournament, at last with a full contingent of forty-eight entries, showed some British successes in that Clarke and I held our own with the seasonal invaders and a number of younger players like Guy and Springgay, of Brighton; Samuels, Reuben, M. R. B. Clarke, from the London area; and Hindle, of Norwich, showed fight. Rhodes and Mackay did themselves credit. Milner-Barry, Wallis, and Andersen were patchy. Miss Tranmer played better than almost ever, while Miss Sunnucks came back after a depressing start. Ivkov played well within himself, showing almost no sign of effort. Karaklaic was more determined than in 1955. Dimc was most energetic, but Toran had some astonishing lapses of concentration. Barden was unusually tensed and, as is then likely, cracked.

Round 1 had two points that stick in my mind. Toran, recently Champion of Spain, intending to sacrifice the exchange against Springgay, found that instead a whole Rook had gone... The second was Karaklaic’s finishagainst the Surrey junior M. R. B. Clarke...

The day of Round 2 was bright for Surrey. Tredinnick drew with this year’s Danish Champion, Andersen, while Mackay dusted Andersen’s compatriot, Moller, and Barden drew with Ivkov. I had to toil to hold Karaklaic in an ending most British masters would not have contested.

Guy, the Brighton champion, moved into the limelight in Round 3, making Ivkov come out of his shell. Barden, following Spassky-Bronstein, Candidates’ Tourney, Amsterdam, 1956, sacrificed his Queen for two minor pieces and beat Andersen. [the rest of the report is almost exclusively chess analysis - JS]

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CHESS, April 1958, Vol.23 no.313-4, p201

BOGNOR REGIS BREAKS RECORDS

Moving from near-by Middleton into Bognor Regis itself, Norman Lomax’s congress must have attracted nearly 250 entries (we lost track of the figure, as new sections were being formed “while you wait”!). The group life of Southdean was little missed, new and unsuspected attractions being found in Bognor itself.

... p239...

BOGNOR REGIS

A new theme

Sir Clarence Sadd, opening the congress again, worked on a rather unexpected vein—chess players' deficiencies and drawbacks of character (their quarrelsomeness, vanity etc.). On this subject he might well have spoken for several hours! But his characteristically polished oration seemed all too brief.

Clarke led for the greater part of the tournament, only to crash in the last round to Karaklaic who thus overtook him, together with Ivkov and Wade.

Strong Punch

Toran and Ivkov had a continuous side-match on the "How hard can you punch?" machine at the fun-fair. Toran gained a 4-1 lead, but his wrist ached so much next day that he could hardly write down his score.

Bognor Regis congress is certainly not going to shrink. "Look at those empty balconies!" exclaimed Norman (Fishlock-) Lomax one day: “Putting the juniors there, we could accommodate three hundred!”.

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File Updated

Date	Notes
30 August 2022	First upload: 16 games, 9 part-games, 9 subsidiary section games, crosstable, reports, results, photo. My thanks to Brian Denman for sending seven of the games.
3 September 2022	Added two more games and one part-game: (1) M.Clarke 0-1 Karaklajic (rd 1 - replaces existing part-game); (2) Milner-Barry 1-0 Tranmer (Rd 2, part-game); (3) Ivkov 1-0 P.Clarke (rd 10). My thanks to Ulrich Tamm for this contribution. Ulrich also helped solve the riddle of P Moller/Moeller/Møller: an article in Skakbladet by Borge Andersen refers to him as Per Møller, so that's what I'm going with. Ulrich has also help fill in some of the gaps in the crosstable. Many thanks again, Ulrich.
7 August 2024	Added the part-game A.Hall ½-½ G.F.Harris (rd 8), found in the book Play The Evans Gambit by Harding & Cafferty (Cadogan 1997), p38, though Black was misidentified as R.A.Harris.