1931/32 Hastings Premier, 28 December - 6 January, White Rock Pavilion (Lower Hall - used for 1st time)

1931/32 Hastings Premier		Residence	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total
1	Salo Flohr	Prague	&;	½	½	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	8
2	Isaac Kashdan	New York	½	&;	1	½	1	1	½	1	1	1	7½
3	Max Euwe	Netherlands	½	0	&;	½	0	1	1	½	½	1	5
4	Sultan Khan	India	0	½	½	&;	0	1	½	0	1	1	4½
5	Vera Menchik	St Leonards	0	0	1	1	&;	½	0	0	1	½	4
6	Edward Mackenzie Jackson	Bexhill	0	0	0	0	½	&;	1	1	½	1	4
7	Goesta Stoltz	Stockholm	0	½	0	½	1	0	&;	½	1	½	4
8	Fred Dewhirst Yates	London	0	0	½	1	1	0	½	&;	1	0	4
9	Reginald Pryce Michell	Kingston	0	0	½	0	0	½	0	0	&;	1	2
10	Sir George Alan Thomas	London	0	0	0	0	½	0	½	1	0	&;	2

BCM, February 1932, ppn 45-59

THE HASTINGS CHRISTMAS CONGRESS.

The twelfth annual Festival of the Hastings and St. Leonards Chess Club was opened on Monday, December 28 [1931], at the White Rock Pavilion, the headquarters of the famous Hastings Orchestra. The Lower Hall of the Pavilion was thus used for the first time, and it proved commodious and well adapted to its purpose, while, of course, the situation, right on the Promenade, was ideal for holiday-makers. The weather was bright and cheerful until the last day, and congress frequenters had a very pleasant ten days.

There were 114 entries in all, and only two failed to appear. Mr. H. M. Paulet was kept away through a bereavement. The meeting was particularly noticeable this time for the large element of young players present, and the general average strength of the competitors, taken all through, was probably higher than that of any Festival hitherto. In making up the list for the Premier section the local committee had in mind a pronouncement by Señor Capablanca twelve months ago that in his opinion the four best of the younger masters coming on were Flohr, Kashdan, Stoltz and Sultan Khan, and they were successful in getting the participation of all these, as well as of Dr. Euwe. He is always a popular visitor to Hastings, and was the winner last year when the ex-world champion was a competitor. Kashdan was brought specially from New York for the contest, and he and Flohr (who won the Premier Reserve section last year, when he played some noticeably fine chess) both justified the high expectations formed of them, for with scores of 8 (Flohr) and 7½ out of 9 they outstripped the other members of the top section. Dr. Euwe (5) and Sultan Khan (4½) were the other prize-winners. Stoltz, who had an astonishing run for a year or two about 1929-30, but who has not quite kept up to that phenomenal form, along with Miss Menchik, Yates and E. M. Jackson, made a group of four with 4 points each following the prize-takers. Mr. Jackson (Bexhill), a retired international player, represented the local clubmen and did remarkably well. Sir George Thomas and R. P. Michell could not get going, though much of their chess was as good as need be, and had to be content to share an unusually humble position.

Another innovation was an earlier beginning at four o’clock instead of six. Late trains affected three or four players, but most competitors thought well of the alteration, and the Press representatives found a considerable benefit, and with them the reading section of chessists who could not be present. The Congress always attracts a lot of attention from foreign newspapers, and, besides the numerous English journalists, there must have been a dozen or more, mostly among the players—from Dr. Euwe downwards, Continental chess writers, some with more than one paper on their hands. [This latter point is worth underlining for present-day chess researchers, who do well to look for Hastings games in continental publications - JS]

Councillor Dobell, president of the Club, took the chair at the opening function, and there were present on the platform the Mayor (Councillor G. H. Ormerod, J.P.), whose second term of office gave him an additional opportunity of welcoming chessplayers to Hastings, Councillor Mrs. Baldock, Alderman Collins, and the club officers, Messrs. G. M. Norman (captain), A. F. Kidney (hon. secretary) and E. A. Lewcock (hon. treasurer).

The [Premier] prizes were £15, £12, £8 and £5, and non-prizewinners were awarded 10/- [10 shillings = 50 pence] for each won game.

As regards choice of openings, twenty-three were various forms of Queen’s Pawn debut out of forty-five games played. White won six, Black nine, and eight were drawn. The Ruy Lopez had nine examples. Six were won for White and the rest drawn, Black getting a bad time of it. One Four Knights was scored for White by Jackson. Three French Defences by Miss Menchik (two) and Kashdan gave a win, a loss and a draw. A similar result attached to three Caro-Kanns, favoured by Flohr (two) and Sultan Khan. Euwe played Alekhine’s Defence twice, winning one and losing one. The Petroff was used twice successfully by Kashdan, and Reti’s Opening (by Flohr and Euwe) showed two White wins.

The “various forms of the Queen’s Pawn debut” are, by the bye, badly in want of differentiation and need “a local habitation and a name.” This matter and the openings generally, and their nomenclature, are receiving attention at the hands of Dr. Tartakover, Herr Kmoch and others, on behalf of the F.I.D.E., and it will probably not be long now before some definite proposals are laid before the national units.

The new law of the International Code against draws by mutual agreement before thirty moves have been made by Black was invoked once, a score of a drawn game being brought up and refused when only twenty-three moves had been made¹. An unusual clock incident (not in the Premier event) was a claim made against an opponent who still had two minutes to go on his clock. The plea was that his clock had been standing still for some indefinite period, but of course the claim could not for a moment be sustained, and the game was ordered to proceed. In another case, in the Premier Tourney, a claim on time limit was allowed to fall through by mutual consent, and a draw agreed, where it was found that the flag had fallen when the minute finger showed the better part of a minute before “12” on the clock. This is a regularly recurring incident and is only to be rectified by a properly fitted flag, on which the finger will travel right to the edge not on a block fitted under the flag in any sort of position. The operative edge of the flag should coincide with the exact "12."

¹ The Times, 1 January 1932: "One pair of players this morning [round 4] handed in a score showing a draw in 23 moves, and were sent back by the tournament director, under Rule 10, to play at least another seven moves, 'to see what would happen.'" From the context it would seem likely that this was Flohr-Euwe which ended in perpetual check after 34 moves.

The time-limit was seventeen moves per hour in the sections down to Major C, operative after thirty four moves, and twenty moves per hour in the remaining sections. As only one game per day is required of the competitors at Hastings, plenty of time for play, even at seventeen moves per hour is forthcoming. After Monday’s play, the first session was 9-30 to 1-30, and the official time for adjourned games 3-30 to 5-30; but players usually preferred to play right on past 5-30 if necessary, and get the game through. The officials naturally were not unwilling to see the games thus disposed of. The sections were graded in strength throughout, with a slight modification perhaps as regards the “afternoon” sections.

... [discussions of games and positions - see viewer/download]

A lively set-to between Miss Menchik and Yates, arising out of Dutch Defence, found the lady champion short of time (as is unfortunately becoming her wont!) at a critical juncture, and this probably cost her a won game.

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Miss Menchik’s best game in the tournament was that against Sultan Khan in the sixth round. The comment sometimes passed that she is not so good in the mid-game as in the openings and endings does not get much support from the subjoined, which embodies as pretty an idea as one could wish for.

1931/32 Hastings Premier Reserves

1931/32 Hastings Premier Reserves		Resid.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total
1	Josef Rejfir	Prague	&;	½	1	1	1	½	½	1	1	1	7½
2	George Koltanowski	Antwerp	½	&;	1	½	½	1	½	1	1	½	6½
3	Daniel Noteboom	Noordwijk	0	0	&;	½	½	1	1	1	1	1	6
4	Ludwig Rellstab	Berlin	0	½	½	&;	1	½	1	0	1	1	5½
5	Theodore Henry Tylor	Oxford	0	½	½	0	&;	1	1	½	1	0	4½
6	Victor Buerger	London	½	0	0	½	0	&;	½	1	½	1	4
7	Gerhard Weissgerber	Saarbruck	½	½	0	0	0	½	&;	½	1	½	3½
8	Gerald Abrahams	Liverpool	0	0	0	1	½	0	½	&;	0	1	3
9	Edward Guthlac Sergeant	London	0	0	0	0	0	½	0	1	&;	1	2½
10	Harry Golombek	London	0	½	0	0	1	0	½	0	0	&;	2

The Premier Reserves prizes were £10, £8 and £6, with 10/- [50p] for won games by non-prize winners.

The Major prizes were £7, £5, £4.

1931/32 Hastings Major A

1931/32 Hastings Major A		Resid.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total
1	Victor Soutanbeieff	Belgium	&;	½	½	1	1	1	½	1	1	1	7½
2	Emmanuel Sapira	Antwerp	½	&;	0	1	½	1	1	1	1	1	7
3	(Alfred) Rupert Neale Cross	Oxford	½	1	&;	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	5½
4	William Ritson Morry	Birmingham	0	0	1	&;	½	0	1	1	1	1	5½
5	John James O'Hanlon	Dublin	0	½	1	½	&;	1	0	0	1	1	5
6	Lodewijk Prins	Amsterdam	0	0	1	1	0	&;	0	1	1	1	5
7	Harold John Francis Stephenson	Hastings	½	0	0	0	1	1	&;	0	½	1	4
8	Etienne Vezer	Algiers	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	&;	0	1	3
9	Alfred Mortlock	Hastings	0	0	0	0	0	0	½	1	&;	½	2
10	Alan Hamilton Crothers	Oxford	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	½	&;	½

1931/32 Hastings Major B

1931/32 Hastings Major B		Resid.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total
1	Siegfried Nadel	Berlin	&;	1	1	½	0	1	1	1	1	1d	7½
2	Richard Edward Lean	Brighton	0	&;	1	0	1	1	1	1	1	1d	7
3	Peter Reid	Croydon	0	0	&;	½	1	1	1	½	1	1d	6
4	Hans-Otto Schmidt	Braunschweig	½	1	½	&;	½	½	½	½	1	1d	6
5	Emanuel Wax	Oxford	1	0	0	½	&;	½	1	1	½	1d	5½
6	George Clifford Brown	Worcester	0	0	0	½	½	&;	½	1	½	1d	4
7	Alfred Lenton	Leicester	0	0	0	½	0	½	&;	½	1	1d	3½
8	Herbert Edward Dobell	Hastings	0	0	½	½	0	0	½	&;	½	1d	3
9	John Baines Lewis	Harrogate	0	0	0	0	½	½	0	½	&;	1d	2½
10	(Marcel Barzin - ABSENT)	Brussels	0d	0d	0d	0d	0d	0d	0d	0d	0d	&;	0

1931/32 Hastings Major C

1931/32 Hastings Major C		Resid.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total
1	Ernest Montgomery Jellie	London	&;	½	½	1	0	1	1	1	½	½	6
2	George Frederick Harold Packer	Hastings	½	&;	½	1	1	1	1	0	0	1	6
3	Edith Mary Ann Michell	Kingston	½	½	&;	½	1	1	0	0	1	1	5½
4	Henry Edmund Tudor	Hastings	0	0	½	&;	0	1	1	1	1	1	5½
5	Rev. Charles Fenton Bolland	Hastings	1	0	0	1	&;	0	0	1	1	1	5
6	Minnie Musgrave	St Leonards	0	0	0	0	1	&;	0	1	1	1	4
7	Michael Benger	Croydon	0	0	1	0	1	1	&;	0	½	½	4
8	George Wright	York	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	&;	0	1	4
9	Amy Eleanor Wheelwright (née Benskin)	Watford	½	1	0	0	0	0	½	1	&;	½	3½
10	Capt. Hugh Windsor Fiesch Heneage	Brighton	½	0	0	0	0	0	½	0	½	&;	1½

The First Class prizes were £5, £4 and £3.

1931/32 Hastings First Class A

1931/32 Hastings First Class A		Resid.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total
1	J H Wise	Croydon	&;	1	1	0	1	½	½	1	1	½	6½
2	W Barker	Wolverhampton	0	&;	1	1	0	0	1	1	1	1	6
3	Edward Buddel Puckridge	Bickley	0	0	&;	½	1	1	1	½	1	½	5½
4	H Ward	Saltdean	1	0	½	&;	1	1	0	½	½	1	5½
5	Hon. Arthur James Beresford Lowther	Woodbridge	0	1	0	0	&;	1	½	1	½	1	5
6	Max Demby	Chatham	½	1	0	0	0	&;	1	½	1	0	4
7	Rostislav Chernikeef	London	½	0	0	1	½	0	&;	½	0	1	3½
8	Willington Lucette Wakefield	Coventry	0	0	½	½	0	½	½	&;	1	½	3½
9	C Lewis	St Leonards	0	0	0	½	½	0	1	0	&;	1	3
10	Austen Lacey Homer	Stourbridge	½	0	½	0	0	1	0	½	0	&;	2½

1931/32 Hastings First Class B

1931/32 Hastings First Class B		Resid.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total
1	Olga Menchik	St Leonards	&;	1	1	1	0	1	1	0	½	1d	6½
2	E A Jones	Flint	0	&;	½	½	½	1	1	1	1	1d	6½
3	Agnes Margaret Crum	Edinburgh	0	½	&;	0	1	0	1	1	1	1d	5½
4	Alfred Herman Reeve	Great Missenden	0	½	1	&;	0	1	0	1	1	1d	5½
5	Charles Henry Taylor	Lewisham	1	½	0	1	&;	½	½	0	1	1d	5½
6	Major Edgar Montague-Jones	St Albans	0	0	1	0	½	&;	½	1	1	1d	5
7	Arthur John Adrian Goetzee	St Albans	0	0	0	1	½	½	&;	1	1	1d	5
8	Emily Eliza Abraham	Herne Bay	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	&;	0	1d	3
9	W G Watson	Hastings	½	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	&;	1d	2½
10	Henry Monmouth Basing Paulet - ABSENT	London	0d	0d	0d	0d	0d	0d	0d	0d	0d	&;	0

1931/32 Hastings First Class (Afternoon)

1931/32 Hastings First Class (Afternoon)		Resid.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total
1	Ward Mayhew Parker Mitchell	Ghent	&;	½	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	7½
2	Sydney Meymott	St Leonards	½	&;	1	1	1	½	0	1	1	1	7
3	William Wesley Church	Northampton	1	0	&;	0	1	1	0	1	1	1	6
4	Arthur Clack	Tenterden	0	0	1	&;	½	1	½	1	1	1	6
5	Samuel Frederick Dalladay	Hastings	0	0	0	½	&;	1	1	1	1	1	5½
6	A D Field	Croydon	0	½	0	0	0	&;	1	1	1	1	4½
7	Edward Harry Church	Cambridge	0	1	1	½	0	0	&;	1	0	0	3½
8	H Golden	York	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	&;	1	1	2
9	Leonard Stanley Hanson-Powter	Battle	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	&;	1	2
10	A Cliffe	Sutton	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	&;	1

The Second Class prizes were £4, £3, and £2.

1931/32 Hastings Second Class

1931/32 Hastings Second Class		Resid.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total
1	C C Palmer	Norwich	&;	1	1	1	1	½	1	1	1	1	8½
2	Mrs C Lillie	Rye	0	&;	0	1	0	1	1	1	1	1	6
3	Herbert William Tidball	Birmingham	0	1	&;	0	1	1	0	1	1	1	6
4	G H Wheeler	Hastings	0	0	1	&;	1	1	1	1	0	½	5½
5	Douglas C Stedman	Margate	0	1	0	0	&;	½	½	1	1	1	5
6	Miss Marian J McCombie	London	½	0	0	0	½	&;	½	½	1	1	4
7	John E Coleman	Grays	0	0	1	0	½	½	&;	1	½	0	3½
8	(Philip) Leslie Jones	Lenham Heath	0	0	0	0	0	½	0	&;	1	1	2½
9	T Moody	Hastings	0	0	0	1	0	0	½	0	&;	1	2½
10	Mrs Ayris	Hastings	0	0	0	½	0	0	1	0	0	&;	1½

Third Class section. The four extra entrants beyond the 110 caused these two sections to consist of twelve players each. The prizes in each section were £4, £2 and £1.

1931/32 Hastings Third Class (Morning)

1931/32 Hastings Third Class (Morning)		Resid.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Total
1	Frank Miles Argrave	Whitstable	&;	1	1	1	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	9
2	E Sharman	Hastings	0	&;	1	1	1	1	1	1	½	0	1	1	8½
3	Helen Muriel Cobbold	Cheltenham	0	0	&;	1	1	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	8
4	H T Bland	London	0	0	0	&;	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	8
5	F G Taylor	St Leonards	1	0	0	0	&;	1	0	1	1	1	1	1	7
6	L Banks	St Leonards	1	0	1	0	0	&;	0	0	1	1	1	1	6
7	J Francis	Haslemere	0	0	0	0	1	1	&;	0	0	1	1	1	5
8	W F Freeman	St Leonards	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	&;	1	½	0	1	4½
9	Thomas Gasson	Rye	0	½	0	0	0	0	1	0	&;	0	1	1	3½
10	E J Powell	St Leonards	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	½	1	&;	1	0	3½
11	Edith Maud Eleanor John Goodacre	Charlton Kings	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	&;	1	2
12	Miss Margaret Keith-Dowding	Guildford	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	&;	1

1931/32 Hastings Third Class (Afternoon)

1931/32 Hastings Third Class (Afternoon)		Resid.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Total
1	Miss Drummond	Hastings	&;	1	½	1	1	1	1	1	0	1	1	1	9½
2	Clara Margaret MacVean	Bournemouth	0	&;	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	½	1	1	8½
3	Gerald Hugh Borlase Fox	East Grinstead	½	1	&;	½	0	1	1	1	0	1	1	1	8
4	Dr J Gray	London	0	0	½	&;	1	0	1	0	1	1	1	1	6½
5	Frank Clayton	Hastings	0	0	1	0	&;	1	0	1	0	1	1	1	6
6	Miss Harper	St Leonards	0	0	0	1	0	&;	1	0	1	1	0	1	5
7	R Fuller	Cambridge	0	0	0	0	1	0	&;	1	1	1	1	0	5
8	W Piper	Hastings	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	&;	1	1	0	1	5
9	Miss I M Shaw	St Leonards	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	&;	0	1	0	4
10	Mrs Lewis	St Leonards	0	½	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	&;	1	1	3½
11	Mrs Wheeler	Hastings	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	&;	1	3
12	J T Hardy	St Leonards	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	&;	2

Competitors and friends turned up in good numbers for the final meeting on Wednesday afternoon, January 6. Unfinished games at 1-30 were continued to a finish in the Pavilion Reading Room while the Hall was prepared for the meeting. The last game, between Michell and Sultan Khan, was finished ten minutes before the time of the meeting! Councillor Dobell again took the chair, and he was supported by the Mayor and Mayoress (who presented the prizes), the Deputy-Mayor (Councillor H. E. Johnson, J.P.), Alderman Shoosmith (a member of the club) and the club officers.

Councillor Dobell mentioned that 1932 was the jubilee year of the Hastings Club, and suitable celebration of this happy fact was of course intended. Mr. G. C. Brown moved a vote of thanks to the Mayor and Corporation for their generous support; Mr. Tylor seconded. The Mayor responding, said that on first coming on to the Council he had thought the grant to the Chess Festival disproportionate to those allotted to cricket, etc., but he had seen fit to change his mind since, being thoroughly satisfied as to the publicity value to Hastings of that annual fixture. Messrs. Kashdan and Euwe expressed the pleasure of the players with their stay at Hastings, and were looking forward to coming again. Mr. Dobell congratulated the principal organisers, Messrs. Kidney and Lewcock on the great success of their preparations, and Miss Lewcock received a special gift from competitors for her secretarial and recording work. A vote of thanks to the Press was responded to by Messrs. E. S. Tinsley (The Times) and A. J. Mackenzie (The Birmingham Post). Mr. Morry thanked the Mayoress for her presence and for her services in distributing the prizes. Messrs. Flohr and Kashdan came in for a special ovation on coming up for their prizes.

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The Times, 28 December 1931

CHESS CONGRESS AT HASTINGS - SOME PROMISING YOUNG PLAYERS - FROM OUR CHESS CORRESPONDENT - HASTINGS, Dec. 26

The twelfth annual congress of the Hastings and St. Leonards Chess Club begins in the Music Pavilion on Monday afternoon, when the Mayor of Hastings, Councillor G, H. Ormerod, will open the congress at 3.45 p.m.

Play in all sections begins in the Lower Hall at 4 p.m., and this early start on the first day is a small innovation, the idea being to give the players more time in the evening, incidentally allowing the results to reach their destinations earlier. There was one pessimist last year who somewhat dismally prophesied the end of these congresses, his reason being the absence of that congress from one of the municipal buildings, but he made no allowance for special circumstances, or the determination of the organizers not to allow a successful series to lapse. The answer this year is an entry of 114 players, made up into nine sections of 10 players each, and two sections (third class) with 12 players in each. Such an answer to pessimism is more than sufficient, and it is no secret that the success of these congresses is due to the friendly excellence of the arrangements. I note that the list of events issued by the Hastings Corporation contained in a recent number an appreciation of what the Hastings Chess Club has done for the game since it was founded in 18S2, and this date can be taken as a reminder that the club intend to arrange some special features next summer in celebration of their jubilee.

Tho names of the players in the Premier Tournament of this congress were given in The Times of November 16, and the 10 competitors in the Premier Reserves Tournament are:—G. Abrahams, V. Buerger, H. Golombek, G. Koltanowski, D. Noteboom. J. Rejfir, L. Rellstab, E. G. Sergeant, T. H. Tylor, and G. Weissgerber.

In making their selection the organizers are following the advice given them on more than one occasion to pay special attention to the younger players who are coming so rapidly to the front. One well-known player put it somewhat in this way:—"You know what the older generation, including myself, can do, and to continue having us means that you shut out this younger element." Thus we have in the Premier Tournament five players who are in the middle twenties, and one, Dr. Euwe, in the very early thirties. In the Premier Reserves Tournament Mr. E. G. Sergeant is the only player of the older period; the other nine belong to the younger generation.

If the question of their capability be raised, the answer is that the tournaments of the last few years prove that these young men can hold their own with the majority of the best players of the world, though one must naturally except such outstanding figures as Dr. Alekhine and Señor Capablanca, and even those two have little in hand against a Kashdan or Sultan Khan. Or, as one of the organizers put it to me this morning: "We have in Dr. Euwe, S. Flohr, I. Kashdan, and Sultan Khan four of the most promising young players in the world, making this congress perhaps the most interesting we have ever held.” I entirely agree, and would suggest that the first prize will go to one of these players, with Sir G. A. Thomas, G. Stoltz, and F. D. Yates not far behind.

In the Premier Reserves Tournament the newcomer is G. Weissgerber, who comes, I understand, with a strong recommendation from Hamburg. One must suspend judgment until is it [sic] seen how he shapes, and he will have to prove very good indeed to score many points in such a company.

Looking through the names of the other entrants I find that Oxford University will be represented by Rupert Cross and A. H. Crothers in Major Tournament "A"; E. Wax, also of Oxford, is in Major Tournament "B," where he will meet P. Reid, of Cambridge. M. M. Barzin, president of the Belgian Chess Federation, is in this section, while in Major Tournament "C" Mrs. R. P. Michell and Mrs. Wheelwright, the joint holders of the British Ladies’ Championship, can fight another battle without there being a title at stake.

For those in the other tournaments who prefer to play in the afternoon, the organizers have arranged First and Third Class Afternoon sections, with "Lightning" and "Rapid" tournaments on four different evenings next week.

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File Updated

Date	Notes
14 May 2014	First uploaded as a separate file. 32 complete games, 5 part-games, 8 opening moves only.
30 May 2014	Various amendments.
31 July 2022	Further amendments: added crosstables. I will add some games from subsidiary events shortly.
1 August 2022	24 games from subsidiary sections now added.
1 August 2022	A further five games from subsidiary sections added, making 29 in all: (1) H.Stephenson 1-0 L.Prins (Major A); (2) C.Bolland 1-0 E.Jellie (Major C); (3) G.Packer 1-0 C.Bolland (Major C); (4) W.Barker 1-0 W.Wakefield (First Class A); (5) O.Menchik 0-1 C.Taylor (First Class B). Thanks to Brian Denman for contributing them. I have also included a complete and corrected score of R.Lean 1-0 A.Lenton from Major B. And I have also added two games won by Ritson Morry from Major A, after having my attention drawn to their existence by Brian Denman. So we now have 31 games from subsidiary sections. Thanks, Brian.
1 August 2022	Seven more subsidiary section games received from Ulrich Tamm: from the Premier Reserves (1) L.Rellstab 1-0 Golombek; (2) G.Weissgerber 0-1 L.Rellstab; (3) V.Buerger 0-1 G.Koltanowski (part-game); (4) J.Rejfir 1-0 T.Tylor. From Major A: (5) H.Stephenson ½-½ V.Soultanbeieff; (6) W.Ritson Morry 0-1 V.Soultanbeieff. From Major B: (7) S.Nadel 1-0 P.Reid. Many thanks to Ulrich.
13 February 2023	Correction to Flohr ½-½ Menchik (Premier rd 9) applied.