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Tournament: 52nd Hastings 1976/77 • 105 games plus 78 from the Challengers, etc • uploaded Tuesday, 18 February, 2025 6:44 PM
Venue: White Rock Pavilion, Hastings • Date: 29 December 1976 - 15 January 1977 • Download PGN • Tournament Bulletin (PDF)

52nd Hastings Premier, 29 December 1976 to 15 January 1977 (sponsored by Ladbrokes)

Hastings Premier 1976/77 Fed Elo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15  Total 
1 Oleg Romanishin USSR 2585g
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0 1 ½ 1 1 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 11½
2 Shimon Kagan ISR 2460m 1
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0 ½ ½ 1 0 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 9½
3 James Tarjan USA 2505g 0 1
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½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 9
4 Andras Adorjan HUN 2510g ½ ½ ½
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½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 8
5 Vasily Smyslov USSR 2565g 0 ½ ½ ½
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½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 8
6 Anthony J Miles ENG 2505g 0 0 ½ 0 ½
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½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 0 1 ½ 7½
7 Mato Damjanovic YUG 2430g 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½
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0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 1 ½ 6½
8 Ivan Farago HUN 2425g ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 0 1
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1 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 6½
9 Milan Vukcevic USA 2480m ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 0
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0 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 6½
10 Arne Zwaig NOR 2465m 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 1
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1 1 ½ ½ ½ 6½
11 Julio Kaplan USA 2435m 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0
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½ ½ ½ ½ 5½
12 Andrew J Whiteley ENG 2370 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 0 0 ½
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1 ½ ½ 5½
13 David E Rumens ENG 2310 0 0 ½ ½ 0 1 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0
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0 ½ 5
14 Yair Kraidman ISR 2445g 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 1
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½ 5
15 Simon Webb ENG 2400 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½
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4½

Average Elo 2459, Category 9, GM = 9, IM = 7

1976/77 Hastings Challengers (29 December 1976 - 8 January 1977)

1976/77 Hastings Challengers Resid/Fed Elo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10  Total 
1 Jonathan Tisdall New York USA 2390 b29+ w20+ b13+ w33= b32+ w3= b12+ w2- b10+ b5+ 8
2 Karlheinz Bachmann Solingen FRG   62= 23+ 10- 37+ 13+ b47+ w27+ b1+ 5= b3= 7½
3 Wolfgang Huisl Hofheim FRG   b9+ w4+ 47+ 32= b33+ b1= w7+ 5- 19+ w2= 7½
4 Michael J Franklin London 2325 60+ b3- 46= 39+ 34= 16= w47+ 32= b36+ w7+ 7
5 Seng Hoo Lim Singapore   67+ 15= 12- 48+ b31+ 10+ w44+ 3+ 2= w1- 7
6 Dimo Werner Mainz FRG   bye+ 39= 66+ w12= 44- 11+ w32+ 7= 9= 13+ 7
7 Julian Gralka Poland   34= 22+ 39+ w8+ b36= w19+ b3- 6= 27+ b4- 6½
8 Hans Hoffmann Sindelfingen FRG   54= 51+ 31+ b7- 58+ w33+ b36= w10- 12+ 14= 6½
9 Richard Lobo London   w3- 65+ 67+ 56+ 27- 15= 61+ w33+ 6= 10= 6½
10 George Rajna Budapest HUN 2410 36= w52+ 2+ 15= 18+ 5- w34+ b8+ w1- 9= 6½
11 Richard A Beach Stoke   51= 43= 38- 17+ 40+ 6- 37+ 21= 47+ 12= 6
12 Max L Fuller Australia 2320 55+ 40= 5+ b6= 46+ 27= w1- 15+ 8- 11= 6
13 Mark L Hebden Leicester   b42+ b56+ w1- w47= 2- 58+ 14= b29+ 34+ 6- 6
14 Glenn E J Lambert Portsmouth   17= 36- 54+ 28+ b47- 45+ 13= 16= w39+ 8= 6
15 Peter G Large Orpington   58+ 5= 16+ 10= 19- 9= 28+ 12- 22= 34+ 6
16 H Dugald Macpherson Grantchester   28= 68+ 15- 45= 41+ 4= 21= 14= 26= w33+ 6
17 Ulrich Nehmert W Germany 2380 14= 34- 23= 11- 63+ b55+ 42+ 46+ 20= 19= 6
18 Thomas Pioch Flörsheim / POL 2250 24+ 47- b57+ 38+ 10- 32= b33- 45= 43+ 36+ 6
19 Orest Popovych USA 2405 50+ 25- 42+ 35+ 15+ b7- w20= b44+ 3- 17= 6
20 Nigel E Povah London 2300 53+ b1- w35- 67+ 30+ 43= b19= 28+ 17= 21= 6
21 Derek M Wise Norwich   32- 59= 29= 23+ 61= 22+ 16= 11= 44+ 20= 6
22 Milan Bajovic YUG   68= 7- 49+ 41= 45= 21- b60+ 24+ 15= 29= 5½
23 Bela Balogh Hungary 2270 37= 2- 17= 21- 67+ 57+ 48= 26- 51+ 44+d 5½
24 Terry B Bennett Staines   18- 60+ 56- 43- 52= 64+ 62+ 22- 57+ 45+ 5½
25 Paul V Byway Royston   30+ 19+ 32- 44- 43- 37- 64+ 52= 48+ 47+ 5½
26 Zahiruddin D Farooqui Pakistan 2325 56- 30- 63+ 29= 65= 53+ 35= 23+ 16= 32= 5½
27 John P Fedorowicz USA   38+ 46+ b33- w30+ 9+ 12= b2- w36+ 7- w/d 5½ / 9
28 John A Hudson USA   16= 66- 53+ 14- 39+ 41+ 15- 20- 61+ 46+ 5½
29 Manfred Keller W Germany 2325 w1- 50= 21= 26= 51+ 48= b38+ w13- b56+ 22= 5½
30 Stephen Matzner USA   25- 26+ w41+ b27- 20- 35- 55+ 35= w58+ 56+d 5½
31 Bernard M Rothbart London   43= 62+ 8- 66+ w5- 46- 65= 30= 54+ 38+ 5½
32 Terence J Stuttard Manchester   21+ 35+ 25+ 3= w1- 18= b6- 4= b33= 26= 5½
33 Danny Kopec USA   b45+ w44+ w27+ b1= w3- b8- w18+ b9- w32= b16- 5
34 David I Patrick London   7= 17+ 37+ w36- 4= 38+ b10- 43+ 13- 15- 5
35 Bernd Stein Hamburg FRG   64+ 32- b20+ 19- 38- 30+ 26= 48= b37+ w/d 5 / 9
36 Shaun M Taulbut Marlborough   10= 14+ 40+ b34+ w7= b44= w8= b27- w4- 18- 5
37 Michael E Binks Bristol   23= 38+ 34- 2- 56= 25+ 11- 42+ w35- 39= 4½
38 Richard Britton Hull   27- 63+ 11+ 18- 35+ 34- w29- b65+ w46= 31- 4½
39 R[olf?] Bruening W Germany   59+ 6= 7- 4- 28- 67+ 40+ 56= b14- 37= 4½
40 Ulrich Christoffel W Germany   48+ 12= 36- 61= 11- 65= 39- w49+ 45- 57+d 4½
41 David A Curnow Epsom   57= 54+ b30- 22= 16- 28- 49= 62+ 52= 43= 4½
42 Guenther Langhanke W Germany   w13- 55+ 19- 57= 62= 54+ 17- 37- 53+ 48= 4½
43 Ralf Laven W Germany   31= 11= 44- 24+ 25+ 20= 46= 34- 18- 41= 4½
44 David Parr Croydon / AUS 2375 w63+ b33- 43+ 25+ 6+ w36= b5- w19- 21- 23-d 4½
45 Charles W Pickard Hitchin   w33- 69+ 50= 16= 22= 14- 58= 18= 40+ 24- 4½
46 Peter J Romilly Leeds   65+ 27- 4= 62+ 12- 31+ 43= 17- b38= 28- 4½
47 Serge Rubinraut Australia   69+ 18+ 3- b13= w14+ w2- b4- 61+ 11- 25- 4½
48 Robert W Smith New Zealand   40- 64+ 61= 5- 66+ 29= 23= 35= 25- 42= 4½
49 Chris W Baker Coventry   66= 37- 22- 50= 55- 63+ 41= b40- 59+ 51= 4
50 Paul Carey Hastings   19- 29= 45= 49= 57= 62= 56- 51- 64= bye+ 4
51 Arne Deppe Frechen FRG   11= 8- w59+ 58- 29- w60= 57= 50+ 23- 49= 4
52 Gisbert Jacoby W Germany   61= b10- 58- 55= 24= 66= 53+ 25= 41= w/d 4 / 9
53 Matthias Kierzek W Germany   20- 58= 28- 64+ 54= 26- 52- 60+ 42- 67+ 4
54 Geoff W Lawton Leicester   8= 41- 14- 59+ 53= 42- 66+ 58= 31- 55= 4
55 Hans-Peter Urankar W Germany   12- 42- 65= 52= 49+ w17- 30- 63+ 62= 54= 4
56 Johann H van Baarle NED 2330 26+ w13- 24+ 9- 37= 61- 50+ 39= w29- 30-d 4
57 Walter Benesch Mannheim FRG   41= 61= w18- 42= 50= 23- 51= 59+ 24- 40-d 3½
58 E Eisenbeiser     15- 53= 52+ 51+ 8- 13- 45= 54= b30- w/d 3½ / 9
59 Julian M Hodgson London   39- 21= b51- 54- b60- bye+ 67+ 57- 49- 64+ 3½
60 Leo B Jansen Dordrecht NED   4- 24- 64= 65- w59+ b51= w22- 53- bye+ 62= 3½
61 James R Nicolson ENG   52= 57= 48= 40= 21= 56+ 9- 47- 28- w/d 3½ / 9
62 Douglas G A Shallcross ENG   2= 31- 69+ 46- 42= 50= 24- 41- 55= 60= 3½
63 T Keller Mannheim FRG   b44- 38- 26- 69+ 17- 49- bye+ 55- 67+ w/d 3 / 9
64 Adrian P R Lewis ENG   35- 48- 60= 53- bye+ 24- 25- 67+ 50= 59- 3
65 Eric Moskow USA   46- 9- 55= 60+ 26= 40= 31= w38- withdrew 3 / 8
66 Miroslav Radojcic YUG 2225 49= 28+ 6- 31- 48- 52= 54- withdrew 2 / 7
67 R Pike     5- bye+ 9- 20- 23- 39- 59- 64- 63- 53- 1
68 Vernon A Small New Zealand   22= 16- withdrew ill ½ / 2
69 Alvaro Valbuena France   47- 45- 62- 63- withdrew 0 / 4

Full crosstable from the bulletin

Hastings 1976/77: Other Sections

Main A — (1-3) Detlef Buse (Bremen FRG), Slobodan Djordjijevic (Yugoslavia), Trefor F Thynne (Teignmouth) 6½/9; (4-6) Walter Bahe (Hanover FRG), Andreas Fehrig (FRG), Alan H Prizant 6; (7-9) Duncan Kerr (Epsom), T Luchtmeier (Netherlands), F Ullrich 5½; (10-14) Nasser M Abbasi, F B M Fritschy, Karl Adolf Hoewel (Gelsenkirchen FRG), L Paulsen, Peter Robinson 5; (15-19) Dr. Reinhard Cherubim, Percy B Cook, John A Gorman (Chester), Christoph P Pragua (Cologne FRG), H Van der Veen (Gladbeck FRG) 4½; (20-24) John R Crampton, Roland A Gronau, P Koinig, W Wagner, Ian D Wells (Morecambe) 4; (25-27) D Hess, Robert P Ross, Geoffrey Neil Stokes 3½; (28) H Mattes 3; (29) R Falkenstein 2; (30) Paul Gronau 1½; (31) Richard Hughes-Hallett 1½/4 (withdrawn ill); (32) D Neukum 1/4 (withdrawn ill).

Main B — (1) Ronald F A Harman 8/9; (2) A Hoffmann 7; (3-4) T Haas, J Zeller 6½; (5) D Duell 6; (6-7) A Philip Primett, J Ewart H Shaw 5½; (8-12) D Droulers, F Palm, G Rorig, Mira Velevska [later Mrs Matthias Kierzek, played in the 1976/77 Challengers], G Wagner 5; (13-20) Robert G Clark (Chester), T Elbern, J[im?] Johnson, G Klein, M Muller, Walter R Rayner, John Philip Scragg, P Urbain 4½; (21) Suri J Rodericks 4; (22-25) M S Ardin, D Gunzel, B Rathenow, Leigh A Trangmar 3½; (26-28) G Klein, U Rokitto, R Schreiber 3; (29) D Greiner 2.

Main C — (1) T Laux 7/9; (2-3) B Dubourg, Eric Wilfred Knapp 6½; (4-5) D Fanning, Hugh G Tassell 5½; (6-15) Roger L Baker, Jean Louis Bertinchamp, Sydney Ross Capsey (Bishops Stortford), Frank Thomas Comber, John R Cotterell, T Kalisch, Geoffrey W Naldrett, Ronald E Rushbrook, Robert C Shilling, X Souane 5; (16) G Lauschke 4½; (17-19) William Bainbridge, E Chambers, P Roos 4; (20-21) Mrs Olive Chataway, R Parker 3½; (22-23) Peter Tobczewski, K E Wilson 3; (24-25) A D Harvey, Truman V Parrott 2½; (26) Stuart Conquest 1½.

Main D — (1) V Brendel 7½/9; (2) K-H Timpe 7; (3) Chris Hann 6; (4-5) P A Baldwin, M E Corbett 5½; (6-7) J G Cooper, T Sirges 5; (8) S Healeas 4½; (9-10) R Hammerstein, D Lawn 4; (11-12) F Hilker, S Nayid 3½; (13-14) William Edward Busbridge, Eileen B Tranmer 3; (15-16) P Gard, E Mitchell 2½.

Christmas Special A — (1) Geoffrey H James 4½/5; (2-3) Julian T Farrand, David Lees 3½; (4-8) Raymond J Gamble, Simon C LeBlancq, Robert C Lynn, Tim W Pelling, John F Turnock 3; (9-12) Paul F Habershon, Peter W Hempson, John M Ripley, John D Wager 2½; (13) Anthony J Booth 2; (14-16) Otto H Hardy, G Homer, Peter G Moore 1½; (17-18) N Borchardt, R A Walker 1.

Christmas Special B — (1-6) John J Ady (Ashford), Nigel W Dennis, G Frost, H Neumann, Colin L Ridley, J Watson 3½/5; (7-8) Geoffrey M Brown, E Houghton 3; (9-11) John A Felton, Lucien Mouillaux (France), R Roberts 2½; (12-18) Jack Horrocks, E Liberman, B Richards, R Sand, E Barry Sandercock, Michael J Sheehan, J C Wiseman 2; (19) (Patricia) Anne Sunnucks 1½.

Christmas Special C — (1) Tom Farrand 4½/5; (2-4) Joseph N H Hay, Raymond J Kearsley, Ian D Thompson 3½; (5-8) C W Bryan, Peter L Cook, J Parker, David J Stevenson1 3; (9-10) R J Dixon, J West 2½; (11-15) E Davies, Ian K Hardwick, Ronald H Saunders, D J Towers, B Ward 2; (16) I Houghton 1½; (17) K B Mahmood 1; (18) J H Ward ½. 1 BCM gives D I Stevenson, but Ian Thompson, who played in this section, confirms that this was David J Stevenson.

Christmas Special D — (1) George V Glover, J Hobden 4/5; (3-5) David Terence Fairbank, P Griffiths, R Quaye 3½; (6-8) G D Green, V Musgrave, Malcolm I Stewart-Mackenzie 3; (9-10) H G Crews, M Meaton 2½; (11-15) P Ganszczyk, R W Johnson, P Manning, J Mitchell, T Patching 2; (16-17) M Chevassut, J M Wheeler 1; (18) J C du Fraisse ½/3.

Christmas Special E — (1) George J Murfet (Keyworth) 4½/5; (2) Iris Louisa F Morris 4; (3-4) Colin H A Caldicott, J Hatton 3½; (5-8) A Hickling, K A Lucas, W B Saunders, J Wright 3; (9-11) J M Bancroft, L J Marshall, A J Thurgood 2½; (12-14) T M Bancroft, G Brookes, R Griffey 2; (15-16) Miss M Daniel, C Wheeler 1½; (17) P Piper 1; (18) C Jewell 0.

New Year Special A — (1) Anthony J Booth (Chester) 5/6; (2-3) Raymond J Gamble (Derby), B Hessbrugge (FRG) 4½; (4-5) Geoffrey M Brown (Folkestone), Peter G Moore 4; (6-11) J Bachmayer, David J Casiot, Alan J Girling, Vincent O Homolka, Paul C Raynes, Kevin J Thurlow (Redhill) 3½; (12-14) Stewart K Fishburne, Frei, Laurie A J Glyde 3; (15-17) K Bender, Ian P Eustis, Joseph M Soesan 2½; (18-21) Charles Ambrose Scott Damant, C Drygas, John A Felton, M McNaughton 2; (22) Edward Frank Fairbrother 1½; (23) J Watson 1.

New Year Special B — (1) William A Cooper (Leicester) 5½/6; (2) J W Roles (London) 5; (3) Philip Hewson (Sevenoaks) 4; (4-8) I Fayter (Brighton), J Nicholas Mills (Bradford), J Parker, R W Parsons, Stewart Wavell (Old Coulsdon) 3½; (9-12) N E Collins, P L Cook, E D Moller, Arthur E Passant 3; (13-16) David Terence Fairbank, Jeff Goldberg (Ilford), R M Morgan, Jack A Speigel 2½; (17-19) K Griggs, Abdulla Mufti, Ronald G Rusha 2.

New Year Special C — (1) H A Dixon 4½/6; (2-3) F H Hill, Alfred Milner 4; (4-7) Francis N Copping, W de Jong, Hon. Sir John Latey, E Wheeler 3½; (8) M B Latey 2½; (9-11) Mrs E Crowe, Lady Gwendolyn Herbert, E Newham 2; (12) Mrs Francesca Enns [Franziska Eskenasy] 1.

Third Week Special A — (1) Andrew R B Thomas 5/6; (2-3) Tom Kalisch, Jack A Speigel 4½; (4-5) Heinrich Juehe, D A Phillips 4; (6-10) Bryan A Fewell, Jack Horrocks, John D H Nicholas, Peter C Wood, Dinah M Wright [Norman] 3½; (11-15) R J Brunia, Kevin R M Claudius, Stuart Conquest, Charles Ambrose Scott Damant, John A Felton 3; (16) Ronald E Rushbrook 2½; (17-22) E J Fairbrother, B C Gould, P H Newing, P Nolan, G H Phillips, B H Turner 2; (23) Wilfred H Pratten 2/5; (24) A Woodland 0 (withdrawn).

Third Week Special B — (1) E Chambers 5/6; (2-3) E J van der Marel, Alfred Milner 4½; (4-8) D E Begarnie, F F Jacquier, W G Oliver, R S Thornton, G Wood 3½; (9-10) Frank Thomas Comber, E Mitchell 3; (11) J G Whitehead 2½; (12-13) W D F Brown, William Edward Busbridge 2; (14) R D Pearce 2/5; (15) Miss Elsie Grace Coulson 1.

File Updated
Date Notes
Previously Uploaded as part of the Hastings collection some time ago.
12 October 2020 Now complete with round numbers and dates, plus crosstable and some results and games from the Challengers.
14 October 2020 Challengers' game tally now up to 29. Ron de Haas kindly sent me the games LB Jansen-Hodgson (round 5) and LB Jansen-Bajovic (round 7). Thanks, Ron.
17 October 2020 Brian Denman has sent me another game from a subsidiary section: WD Brown-E Mitchell, Third-Week Special, won by the latter, who was a blind member of Hastings CC. Brian told a lovely story of Edwin F Mitchell and his guide dog: "He used to be accompanied to chess matches by his alsation guide dog, Sasha. He had only to mention the word 'chess' to the dog and it took him to the Hastings Chess Club." Full name Edwin Ferdinand E E Mitchell, he was born in 1919 and died in Hastings in 2006.
19 November 2020 Five more games contributed by Brian Denman: all five were played by Geoff H James, scoring 4½/5 to take first place in Christmas Special A section. Many thanks to Brian.
25 November 2020 Correction made to Webb-Farago (round 14) - 29...Re1+, not 29...Re5. I am grateful to Han Bükülmez for drawing my attention to this, which he and Rainer Knaak worked out when preparing Mega/Big Database 2016.
29 October 2021 Having previously scratched around to create a partial crosstable for the Challengers tournament from various sources, I discovered a copy of the 1976/77 Hastings bulletin on my own shelves, with a complete crosstable! The crosstable on this page is now complete and I also input a further nine complete Challengers games from the bulletin.
7 July 2023 The part-game G.Langhanke 0-1 M.Hebden, Challengers, rd 1, has been replaced with the complete score.
16 November 2023 Added five games played by Kevin Thurlow in the New Year Special A section. Many thanks to Kevin.
23 December 2024 Added another 19 more games from the Challengers and Main A tournaments. Many thanks to Ulrich Tamm for sending me scans of the substantial tournament coverage provided in various issues of Schach-Echo, which provided 16 of the additional games, plus another 3 I've found in UK newspapers.
24 December 2024 Added another nine games played by Danny Kopec in the Challengers. Many thanks to Andy Ansel for sending the games.
18 February 2025 Added two games from the Challengers: (1) G Rajna 1-0 G Jacoby, rd 2; (2) M Binks 0-1 B Stein, rd 9. Many thanks to Ulrich Tamm for submitting the games.