1967 (12th) Northern Open, Whitby Grammar School, 24 July - 4 August

1967 Northern Open Whitby		Residence	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Total
1	Dolfi Drimer	Romania	w47+	b13=	w10+	b39+	w28+	b4+	w3+	b5+	b2=	w9+	b11+	10
2	Colin D Aykroyd	Canada	b44+	w34+	w42+	b12+	w4-	b5-	w20+	b39+	w1=	b18+	b3=	8
3	Bent Sorensen	Denmark	b11=	w30+	w8=	w32+	b19+	w9+	b1-	b18+	w15=	b5=	w2=	7½
4	Joseph W Willemsen	Netherlands	b33=	w25+	b20+	w31+	b2+	w1-	b26=	b9-	w28+	w17=	b12+	7½
5	Daniel Wright	London	b36+	w57+	b31=	w19=	b26+	w2+	b39+	w1-	b9+	w3=	b6-	7½
6	Bartolome Jorge Marcussi	Middlesbrough	b10=	w33-	b48+	w14=	b24=	w8+	w15-	b49+	w19+	b20+	w5+	7½
7	Stewart Reuben	London	b27+	41+	w12-	b42=	w16=	b28+	w9-	b21=	w29+	b10+	b17+	7½
8	Peter W Hempson	London	w32+	w19=	b3=	b16=	w20-	b6-	b34+	w25=	b27+	w39+	w24+	7
9	Brian R Eley	Rotherham	w45+	b39-	w41+	b15+	w12+	b3-	b7+	w4+	w5-	b1-	w21=	6½
10	Keith Bevan Richardson	Camberley	w6=	b17+	b1-	w27+	b31=	w18=	b19=	w14=	b42+	w7-	w32+	6½
11	Nigel John Kalton	Bromley	w3=	b22=	w37=	w43+	b14=	b29=	w23+	b13=	w20=	b15+	w1-	6½
12	Kenneth P Neat	Leeds	b51+	w14+	b7+	w2-	b9-	w25=	w29+	b20-	w21+	b32+	w4-	6½
13	(Louis) Alan Edwards	Leicester	w21+	w1=	b33+	b28=	w39-	b15=	w49+	w11=	b17-	b16=	w30+	6½
14	Ronald F A Harman	London	w38+	b12-	w22+	b6=	w11=	b42=	w16=	10=	w39=	b28=	b31+	6½
15	David Lees	Bury	b49-	b47+	w23+	w9-	b36+	w13=	b6+	w42+	b3=	w11-	w18=	6½
16	Alan T Ludgate	High Wycombe	b18+	w31-	b57+	w8=	b7=	w19=	b14=	w17-	b25+	w13=	b28+	6½
17	J Rastall	Leeds	b25=	w10-	b27-	w53+	b38+	w32=	w46+	b16+	w13+	b4=	w7-	6½
18	Thomas Bimpson	Northwich	w16-	b46+	w34+	b54+	w42=	b10=	b31+	w3-	b26+	w2-	b15=	6½
19	Alan John Dilworth	Warrington	w48+	b8=	w49+	b5=	w3-	b16=	w10=	w26=	b6-	b22+	w20=	6
20	Gerard Gorse	France	w56+	b28=	w4-	35+	b8+	w39=	b2-	w12+	b11=	w6-	b19=	6
21	Otto H Hardy	Loughborough	b13-	w50+	b40+	w26-	b25=	w36+	b35=	w7=	b12-	w42+	b9=	6
22	William Ritson Morry	Birmingham	b30=	w11=	b14-	w46+	b57+	w26-	b27+	w32-	b35+	w19-	b36+	6
23	Jan Rode Pedersen	Denmark	b50+	w26-	b15-	w38=	b43+	w24+	b11-	w35=	b30-	w40+	b39+	6
24	Hans Plukker	Netherlands	b39-	b37-	w52+	b41+	w6=	b23-	w30+	w45+	b32=	w26+	b8-	6
25	Michael J Conroy	Burnley	w17=	b4-	w56+	b37+	w21=	b12=	w42-	b8=	w16-	b38+	b26=	5½
26	John R Crampton	Birmingham	w46+	b23+	w39-	b21+	w5-	b22+	w4=	b19=	w18-	b24-	w25=	5½
27	Colin F S Davison	Newcastle-upon-Tyne	w7-	b58=	w17+	b10-	w35=	b37+	w22-	b54+	w8-	b47+	w29=	5½
28	P Hansen	Denmark	b35+	w20=	b43+	w13=	b1-	w7-	b40+	w31+	b4-	w14=	w16-	5½
29	Heinrich Jühe	West Germany	b57-	b45-	w47+	w30+	b33+	w11=	b12-	w44+	b7-	w36=	b27=	5½
30	Roger Keely	Wolverhampton	w22=	b3-	w38=	b29-	w51+	w45+	b24-	b41+	w23+	w31=	b13-	5½
31	Sven Ove van Seelen	Denmark	w37+	b16+	w5=	b4-	w10=	b54+	w18-	b28-	w47+	b30=	w14-	5½
32	R C/G? Taylor	Newport	b8-	55+	w51+	b3-	w49=	b17=	w54+	b22+	w24=	w12-	b10-	5½
33	Roger W Howley	Rochdale	w4=	b6+	w13-	b49=	w29-	b46-	w38=	w34+	b36-	b43+	w44+	5½
34	P R Green	Leeds	w55+	b2-	b18-	w40+	w54-	b38=	w8-	b33-	w52=	b48+	b49+	5
35	A F Hughes	Leeds	w28-	b56=	w53+	20-	b27=	b55+	w21=	b23=	w22-	b46=	w38=	5
36	Frank J Moon	Gateshead	w5-	b38=	w44=	b51+	w15-	b21-	w56=	b43+	w33+	b29=	w22-	5
37	Nicholas Charles Pyper	Bexhill	b31-	w24+	b11=	w25-	b55=	w27-	b45-	b53+	w41=	w49=	b50+	5
38	A P M van der Poel	Netherlands	b14-	w36=	b30=	b23=	w17-	w34=	b33=	w40+	b44+	w25-	b35=	5
39	Andrew P Sombor	Croydon	w24+	w9+	b26+	w1-	b13+	b20=	w5-	w2-	b14=	b8-	w23-	5
40	Henk J M Smout	Netherlands	w53+	b42-	w21-	b34-	w47+	b57+	w28-	b38-	w49+	b23-	w46+	5
41	John D Thornton	Bradford	w52+	7-	b9-	w24-	b46-	b48+	w55+	w30-	b37=	w45+	b42=	5
42	Louis de Veauce	Pirbright	w54+	w40+	b2-	w7=	b18=	w14=	b25+	b15-	w10-	b21-	w41=	5
43	Charles Hatch	Southport	w58+	b49=	w28-	b11-	w23-	b56+	b44-	w36-	b53+	w33-	b52+	4½
44	William David Houpt	Hatfield	w2-	b53=	b36=	55=	w56+	b49-	w43+	b29-	w38-	b52+	b33-	4½
45	James B Langstaffe	Rossendale	b9-	w29+	b54-	w57-	w52+	b30-	w37+	b24-	w48+	b41-	w47=	4½
46	Edward W Nottingham	Spalding	b26-	w18-	b50+	b22-	w41+	w33+	b17-	b47-	w54+	w35=	b40-	4½
47	Stephen Welbourne	Scarborough	b1-	w15-	b29-	w50+	b40-	b51+	w52+	w46+	b31-	w27-	b45=	4½
48	Roy Julian	York	b19-	54-	w6-	b56-	b53+	w41-	b50+	w55+	b45-	w34-	w51+	4
49	A Roberts	London	w15+	w43=	b19-	w33=	b32=	w44+	b13-	w6-	b40-	b37=	w34-	4
50	Geoffrey Vernon Spink	Scarborough	w23-	b21-	w46-	b47-	bye+	b52-	w48-	w51+	b55+	b54+	w37-	4
51	Michael J Donnelly	Billingham	w12-	b52+	b32-	w36-	b30-	w47-	w53=	b50-	b56+	w55+	b48-	3½
52	Keith Eccles	Derby	b41-	w51-	b24-	bye+	b45-	w50+	b47-	w56+	b34=	w44-	w43-	3½
53	B Sedgwick	Leeds	b40-	w44=	b35-	b17-	w48-	bye+	b51=	w37-	w43-	b56=	w54+	3½
54	Paul Griffiths	Carlisle	b42-	48+	w45+	w18-	b34+	w31-	b32-	w27-	b46-	w50-	b53-	3
55	Helge Neesgard-Madsen	Denmark	b34-	32-	bye+	44=	w37=	w35-	b41-	b48-	w50-	b51-	w56+	3
56	R Canter	Sunderland	b20-	w35=	b25-	w48+	b44-	w43-	b36=	b52-	w51-	w53=	b55-	2½
57	Robert P Ross	Hull	w29+	b5-	w16-	b45+	w22-	w40-	withdrawn					2 / 6
58	Y Westphal	Crowborough	b43-	w27=	withdrawn									½ / 2

1) Results gleaned from daily reports in the Times and from Colin Aykroyd's tournament programme, kindly supplied by Stephen Wright. It has not been possible to discover the colours for a few of the results.
2) Players highlighted in brown were eligible for the Northern Junior Open title.
3) R W Howley's score wrongly given as 5 in CHESS - The Times & BCM have his correct score of 5½.
4) By scoring 6½, L A Edwards won the Northern Junior Championship.
5) Congress director Dr. Frederick Bromley Akeroyd.
6) Arbiters R G Wade, F Michael Akeroyd; assistant games controller W Ritson Morry
7) There was a simul on 29 July 1967 at 8pm. No details found.
8) Lightning tournament 30 July 1967. No details found.
9) Northern Open time controls: 36 moves / 2 hours, 18 moves / 1 hour thereafter
10) Other events (except Whitby Speciality): 40 moves / 2 hours, 20 moves / 1 hour thereafter
11) The Whitby Speciality was a five-round evening event, played from 8pm to 10pm. Exact time limit not given in the programme.
12) Main session in all events (except Whitby Speciality): 9.15am - 1.15pm, resumption 3.15pm

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CHESS, September 1967, Vol.32/537-8, p358 & CHESS, October 1967, Vol.33/539-40, p3

Report by Andrew P Sombor

The Northern Open Tournament, incorporated in the Twelfth Annual Whitby Chess Congress, attracted a record 61 entries. Three, including the Yugoslav, Gasic did not turn up, and two withdrew during the Congress so 56 finished.

About a quarter of the entries were foreign, mainly Dutch and Danish, and an even larger proportion of the prize money has by now left these shores.

Drimer, the only competitor with an international title, was expected to win—and he did so with great ease. However, some of the other overseas entrants, e.g. the Canadian Aykroyd and the Dutchman Willemsen, were largely unknown quantities, and there seemed no reason why some of the home-grown talent, in particular Wright, who acquitted himself so well at Bognor should not run the master close.

Quick draws were almost non-existent. The quality of the chess was surprisingly low, and, in the event, a pedestrian performance by Drimer was sufficient to lift him well clear of the field. Drimer himself described his tournament the most aptly when he said that he "played 11 games and filled 20 scoresheets"; in fact, he relied almost exclusively on his superiority in endgame technique over his younger, relatively inexperienced opponents. Three of his games exceeded 100 moves. Against Edwards in the second round he went to 132 moves; against Kalton in the last round, to 126. He was untiring, and never seemed to get bored.

Aykroyd, who in his first tournament in this country, proved a very popular competitor, has an entertaining style. A fine attacking player, he frequently leaves himself short of time, yet manages to get the last ounce of possibilities out of the position. He himself was pleasantly surprised by his result, and, modestly, feels that perhaps next time, the novelty having worn off, he won’t be able to repeat it. I wouldn’t be so sure.

(He is a Canadian, of Yorkshire stock. It is curious that the great organiser of the Whitby Congress also of ancient Yorkshire lineage, should be such a near-namesake: Akeroyd—Editor).

Wright had an unlucky tournament, but in the final analysis, has no one else to blame for his misfortunes. He adjourned against Drimer in a completely equal position which he managed to mis-analyse. He could still have been second, had he drawn his last-round game against Marcussi. This also was adjourned, and on resumption, Marcussi was found to have sealed an inferior move, giving Wright, if anything slightly the better of a formerly uncomfortable game. Wright celebrated this turn of fortune by a suicidal exchange sacrifice.

Good finishers

Marcussi looked almost unable to win a game until the end, when he won four in a row. He worked probably hardest of all, adjourning nine times altogether, and saving one lost ending after another. If Drimer filled 20 scoresheets, Marcussi cannot have been far behind.

The last on 7½, Reuben, was unconvincing, though he rallied towards the end. His loss to Eley was too horrible for words.

The last prizewinner, Hempson, made 4½ from his last five games, to rob eleven expectant competitors of a prize of 4s. 2d. each.

Of the others, Eley has abundant natural gifts, but one can’t see him do well in stronger company until he takes the game more seriously.

Richardson takes the game perhaps too seriously, and those who say that he is primarily a correspondence player might have a point. He had a bad time, and only his undoubted class secured him his final respectable placing.

Kalton was imbued with the holiday spirit, limiting the effort he was prepared to expend. He met his only defeat well after the prize-giving ceremony had ended. Edwards became the Northern Junior Champion—deservedly. He drew with Drimer, and lost only to Rastall and Sombor.

Some statistics

Drimer remained the only unbeaten player. Nobody finished without a win, though Neesgaard-Madsen and Sedgwick only scored their first wins in the last round. The highest number of draws by one player was seven, by Kalton and Harman, the latter’s being consecutive, from round 4 to 10. Two, Julian and Smout, had no draws at all, and Eley drew only in the last round. The longest winning series was Drimer’s, six, from round 3 to 8; the longest losing series was Griffiths’; he lost his last six. Aykroyd played four prizewinners scoring only two draws against them; Sorensen scored three draws against four; and Reuben did not play any prizewinner. A final, bitter note to this chapter: will any kind organizer please offer a special prize for the highest sum of opponents’ scores? It would be no end of consolation to someone finishing thirty-third! [This is the author's reference to his own performance in which he started with 3/3, reached 4½/6 but could only score half a point from his remainaing six games. He finished, not 33rd, but 34-39th - JS]

Bimpson’s effortless elegance in crushing an off-colour van Seelen. [game score van Seelen-Bimpson]

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BCM, September 1967, ppn 258-261

New Records at Whitby

By W. RITSON MORRY

Although the Whitby Congress is one of several at this time of year, it goes from strength to strength and is now one of the country’s leading events. This year’s total entry of 191 for all sections, including 58 in the Northern Open and Junior Championships was a record. Moreover, the strong foreign contingent which included E. D. Drimer, the Roumanian international master, B. G. Marcussi, the Argentine Team Tournament player (now living in Middlesbrough), C. D. Aykroyd of Canada, G. Gorse of France, P. Hansen, H. Neesgaard-Madsen, J. R. Pedersen, S. O. van Seelen and B. Sorensen of Denmark, H. Juhe of West Germany, H. Plukker, A. P. M. van der Poel, H. J. M. Smout and J. W. Willemsen of Holland, aroused greater interest than ever in the principal event.

Play began at 9.15 on Monday, July 24th, after a short speech of welcome by Dr. F. B. Akeroyd, the Congress Organiser, but there were signs that many players had not settled down, as quite a number of blunders occurred in the early stages of the round, including the putting of his queen en prise by N. C. Pyper in his game against van Seelen. The first game to finish, however, was A. P. Somber v. H. Plukker which the former won in 11 moves.

By contrast K. B. Richardson had a long ending with Marcussi which was not finished until Wednesday evening. Although two pawns ahead, Richardson had certain difficulties because of his King’s confinement to the first rank and the Black King’s proximity to the pawns. [part-game score Richardson-Marcussi]

Round 2 reduced the clean scores to eight, even Drimer being held to a draw by the young Leicester player L. A. Edwards, who, after adjourning with a better position, allowed the ending to slip a little and had to endure a long Queen ending with three pawns to two all on the King's side. After many fruitless manoeuvres, Drimer finally sacrificed two of his pawns to reach the position in Diagram 2. Edwards missed the quickest way. [part-game score Edwards-Drimer]

Round 3 brought Aykroyd, Neat and Sombor into the lead and in the following round Aykroyd scored his fourth successive win to lead alone. His opponent, Neat, allowed him yet another chance for a King’s-side attack at which he is very adept. The other leader, Sombor, was severely punished by Drimer for some bad opening play and the Roumanian now shared second place with Willemsen. An amusing game in this round was that in which Hardy made a combination to win the queen and found himself in a mating net: [game score Hardy - Crampton]

Nerves were in evidence in round 5 as the battle for the lead intensified. Aykroyd went wrong in trying for another King’s-side attack against Willemsen and resigned after only 17 moves, three pawns minus and facing the forced loss of a piece. Hansen also blundered away a piece in 16 moves against Drimer and early in the morning the lead had passed to Drimer and Willemsen with 4½ followed by Aykroyd, Eley, Sombor, Sorensen and Wright with 4.

The first week ended with Drimer on 5½, after beating Willemsen, who was gradually outmanoeuvred until he lost a bishop which had been pinned. Wright and Sorensen reached 5 points with wins over Aykroyd and Eley respectively, whilst Willemsen joined Somber with 4½. Aykroyd, Bimpson, Crampton, Eley, Gorse, Reuben and Richardson were close behind with 4. In this round young Pedersen won a crisp little game: [game score Pedersen-Plukker]

The following game would have won any prize for the most belligerent draw, had there been one. [Neat - Conroy]

Drimer won yet again in Round 7, Sorensen resigning when his King was in a mating net: [game score Drimer-Sorensen]

Sombor lost in only 17 moves to Wright, and Crampton had a rough-and-tumble with Willemsen which suddenly became a Bishop v. Knight ending requiring very careful play by Crampton to draw. Bimpson won a bright game: [game score van Seelen-Bimpson]

Drimer now led with 6½; followed by Wright 6; Bimpson, Eley, Sorensen and Willemsen 5.

A 67-move win in Round 8 put Drimer 1½ points ahead of Wright and he only had to remain unbeaten to be sure of at least a tie for first place. Eley caught Willemsen off balance with a drastic sacrificial finish; Bimpson offered very poor opposition to Sorensen’s French Defence; and Aykroyd caused Sombor such difficulties that he exceeded the time-limit.

Drimer had his second 100-move game, this time against Aykroyd, in which he made unavailing efforts to win with 3 pawns to 2 on the King’s-side in a Rook-ending. Eley tried Bird’s opening but an open King’s Rook-file gave Wright a chance to reach a winning ending. Lees found an entertaining perpetual check to draw with Sorensen in a difficult position. Drimer still needed 1½ points to take clear first prize.

The penultimate round found Drimer facing Eley and in the early stages Eley gained a pawn in return for conceding the two bishops. Later a mistake allowed Drimer to reach an ending with two rooks against queen and he won easily. Although the game lasted 65 moves it finished half through the morning session. At the end of the morning Wright and Sorensen agreed a draw to make Drimer certain of first place. Meanwhile, Aykroyd caught up with Wright with a smart win: [game score Bimpson-Aykroyd]

At the end of this round the scores stood : Drimer 9; Aykroyd and Wright 7½; Sorensen 7; Marcussi, Neat, Rastall, Reuben and Willemsen 6½; so there was still an exciting contest in prospect for the second to eighth prizes.

Drimer was in no mood to rest on his laurels in the last round and showed a nice regard for the interests of other competitors to whom a quick draw might have meant some loss of prize money. Playing Kalton, the only other unbeaten player he went in for another long queen ending with 3 pawns to 2 but this time he had a remote passed Queen’s Rook Pawn. Nevertheless, it might still have been drawn with best play, but Kalton could not find it and resigned after 125 moves. The game had started at 9.15 a.m. and was still in progress when the prize giving ceremony started at 7.30 p.m. Sorensen was content with a 19-move draw, leaving Wright a chance to take second prize alone, but Marcussi was putting in a storming finish and took advantage of Wright’s eagerness to win to notch his fourth win in four rounds which brought him from 3½ out of 7 to out of 11 and a share of third to seventh prizes. Hempson had also made a late rally from an equally poor position and won this game to take 8th prize alone: [game score Hempson-Plukker]

Three games of 100 moves by one player was certainly a record for Whitby and might well be a world record. The nearest I can recall was in the British Championship in 1926 when W. Gooding played two.

The final scores were:

Northern Open and Junior Championships.— [scores - see crosstable above] L. A. Edwards won the Northern Junior Championship, Pedersen taking second prize.

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Premier, Fortnight: (1) J H Gardener (Bridgford) 11/12; (2) John A Dodgson (Southminster) 8; (3) Alan Edgar Nield (St Leonards) 7½; (4) John F Turnock (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) 7; (5-7) Keith L Escott (Hornchurch), G Frost (Sheffield), Philip D Porter (Wolverhampton) 6½; (8) B Marshall (York) 6; (9) A van der Ven (Netherlands) 5; (10-12) Alfred Milner (Manchester) , P Monciunskas (Bradford), R J Roberts (Sheffield) 4; (13) James W Prosser (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) 2. (3 Prizes)

Premier, First Week: (1) Paul R Kemp (Grimsby) 4½/5; (2) Brian H Coop (Harrogate) 4; (3) R Rowling (Knottingley) 3; (4-5) W M Dixon (London), J P Irving (Carlisle) 2½; (6-8) P J Dyson (Blackburn), R J Nash (Witney), E Winn (York) 2; (9) C Cheetham (Carlisle) 1½; (10) G Jackson 1. (3 Prizes)

Premier, Second Week: (1) R Gardner (Brighouse) 4½/5; (2) Jack A Speigel 4; (3-5) Keith Maudsley, L J Wheatley (Birmingham), T Wickens 3; (6-8) (Frederick) Michael Akeroyd (Whitby), Paul F Habershon (Bath), G M Hayes (London) 2; (9) Alex Schofield (Castleford) 1; (10) J W Reay (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) ½.

First Class, First Week: (1) K Hamilton (Middlesbrough) 4½/5; (2) T C Huyzer (Netherlands) 4; (3-5) Terence D Crawford (Cambridge), B Milnes, P B Scott (Swansea) 3½; (6-9) K Goodey (Grimsby), A M J Hutchings (Newcastle-upon-Tyne), John Arthur James Lambert-Gorwyn (Heathfield), K Nemezes (Netherland) 3; (10-12) Mrs P Jackson (Hindhead), J W Reay (Newcastle-upon-Tyne), A C van Rooy (Netherlands) 2½; (13-16) Gilbert Lawrence Houpt (Hatfield), Miss A Livesey (Whitby), Geoffrey H Phillips (Ambleside), T E Smith (Whitby) 2; (17) P Saw (London) 1½; (18-19) Mrs V M Clement (Portsmouth), Miss E Whyte (London) 1. (3 Prizes)

First Class, Second Week: (1) Gilbert Lawrence Houpt (Hatfield) 4/5; (2-5) W Goerke (Leeds), A M J Hutchings (Newcastle-upon-Tyne), John Arthur James Lambert-Gorwyn (Heathfield), N Turner (Blackburn) 3½; (6-10) K H Appleby (Leeds), B J Broughton (Keswick), T C Huyzer (Netherlands), P B Scott (Swansea), G Wood (Coventry) 3; (11-12) K Nemezes (Netherlands), P Saw (London) 2½; (13-16) G Burnett (Worcester), S A Holtham (Whitby), A C van Rooy (Netherlands), T E Smith (Whitby); (17-20) Mrs V M Clement (Portsmouth), Mrs P Jackson (Hindhead), Miss A Livesey (Whitby), B Milnes 1. (3 Prizes)

Junior, First Week: (1) Philip G Wade (Stalybridge) 4½/5; (2) M Silversides (Gateshead) 4; (3-4) John C Fagg (Birchington), R Hitchcock (Sandy) 3½; (5-7) D Silversides (Gateshead), Raymond J Starkie (Burnley), S Todd (Middlesbrough) 2½; (8-9) M Howard (Whitby), P Ozzard-Low (Whitby) 2; (10-12) A Baker, D A Phillips (Ambleside), M Ventress (Whitby) 1. (3 Prizes)

Junior, Second Week: (1) T Reynolds (Chester-le-Street) 4/5; (2-4) P Miller (York), D Silversides (Gateshead), M D Stead (Barnsley) 3½; (5-7) M Silversides (Gateshead), M Ventress (Whitby) 3; (8) S Todd (Middlesbrough) 2½; (9-11) John C Fagg (Birchington), M Howard (Whitby), P Ozzard-Low (Whitby) 2; A Baker 1. (3 Prizes)

Whitby Speciality¹ First Week: (1) Ronald F A Harman (London) 5/5; (2) Nigel J Kalton (Bromley) 4; (3-6) Kenneth P Neat (Leeds), John D Thornton (Bradford), Louis de Veauce (Pirbright), A Wilson 3½; (7) K Goodey (Grimsby) 3; (8-13) Brian H Coop (Harrogate), Terence D Crawford (Cambridge), Helge Neesgaard-Madsen (Denmark), P B Scott (Swansea), Philip G Wade (Stalybridge), G Wood (Coventry) 2½; (14-20) P J Dyson, Paul R Kemp (Grimsby), John Arthur James Lambert-Gorwyn (Heathfield), R Rowling (Knottingley), Miss E Whyte (London), M Howard (Whitby), D Smith 1½; (21) S Todd (Middlesbrough) 1; A Baker 0. (3 Prizes)
¹ The Whitby Speciality was a five-round evening event, played from 8pm to 10pm. Exact time limit not given in the programme.

Whitby Speciality Second Week: (1) Colin F S Davison (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) 4½/5; (2) W Goerke (Leeds) 4; (3-5) John C Fagg (Birchington), Keith Maudsley, John D Thornton (Bradford) 3½; (6-8) H Gosling, A G Sunderland, N Turner 3; (9-13) K H Appleby (Leeds), S A Holtham, P B Scott (Swansea), B Sedgwick (Leeds), G Wood (Coventry) 2; (14-15) Mrs P Jackson (Hindhead), S Todd (Middlesbrough) 1; Mrs V M Clement (Portsmouth) 0. (3 Prizes)

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Date	Notes
1 June 2025	Original upload with 23 games, 6 part-games, 2 from lower sections, reports and crosstable. My thanks to Stephen Wright for sending a scan of the tournament programme which has helped in the creation of a full crosstable.
3 June 2025	Now with 31 complete scores, 5 part-games and 2 from lower sections, following the addition of eight of Colin Aykroyd's games, kindly submitted by Stephen Wright. Many thanks to Stephen, who is incidentally responsible for the excellent BCBASE, a collection of games played by players from British Columbia; BritBase has previously sourced games from it, for example those played by Nathan Divinsky in the 1966 Bognor Regis tournament.