1976 British Chess Championship, Portsmouth, 9-20 August • 1975« »1977

1976 British Chess Championship		Fed	Elo	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Total
1	A Jonathan Mestel	ENG	2390	w33+	b13+	b15+	w8+	w17+	b21+	w3+	b5+	w9+	b4=	b2-	9½
2	Andrew J Whiteley	ENG	2370	w3-	b22=	w34+	b6=	w14=	b30+	w31+	b7=	w21+	b9+	w1+	8
3	Emmanuel Rayner	WLS		b2+	w4=	b10+	w25+	b21-	w8+	b1-	w11+	b7-	w18+	b12+	7½
4	Michael J Haygarth	ENG	2330	w22+	b3=	w20+	b17-	w15=	b7=	w14+	b21+	w5+	w1=	b6=	7½
5	Jonathan S Speelman	ENG	2380	b11=	w14=	b33+	w16+	b8=	w18+	b6+	w1-	b4-	w10=	b19+	7
6	Victor W Knox	ENG	2330	b23+	w15-	b14+	w2=	b10=	b20+	w5-	w25+	b16=	w7+	w4=	7
7	Glenn E J Lambert	ENG		b21+	w12+	b8-	w15=	b16=	w4=	b18+	w2=	w3+	b6-	w9=	6½
8	Anthony J Miles	ENG	2510m	w31+	b18+	w7+	b1-	w5=	b3-	w17+	b9-	w20=	b16+	b10=	6½
9	Robert Bellin	ENG	2360	b24+	w10=	b16=	w21-	b12+	w23+	b15+	w8+	b1-	w2-	b7=	6½
10	Nigel E Povah	ENG	2300	w26+	b9=	w3-	b22+	w6=	b17+	w21-	w15=	b14+	b5=	w8=	6½
11	Murray G Chandler	NZL		w5=	b34+	w17-	b14-	w19=	b32+	w20+	b3-	w25=	b27+	b18+	6½
12	George S Botterill	WLS	2390	w29+	b7-	w31+	b18-	w9-	b13=	w30=	b22+	w26+	b21+	w3-	6
13	Kenneth P Neat	ENG	2315	b36+	w1-	b25-	w31+	b23=	w12=	b19=	w16-	w30+	b14=	w21+	6
14	John N Sugden	ENG		w19=	b5=	w6-	w11+	b2=	w16+	b4-	b17+	w10-	w13=	b20=	5½
15	John C Pigott	ENG	2380	w27+	b6+	w1-	b7=	b4=	w25+	w9-	b10=	w18-	b20=	w16=	5½
16	David Goodman	ENG	2230	w17=	b19+	w9=	b5-	w7=	b14-	w23+	b13+	w6=	w8-	b15=	5½
17	Michael Macdonald-Ross	SCO	2280	b16=	w28+	b11+	w4+	b1-	w10-	b8-	w14-	b19-	b34+	w32+	5½
18	Jeff Horner	ENG	2405	b32+	w8-	b26+	w12+	b25=	b5-	w7-	w19+	b15+	b3-	w11-	5½
19	Peter H Clarke	ENG	2350	b14=	w16-	b23=	w27+	b11=	b22=	w13=	b18-	w17+	b25+	w5-	5½
20	Maxwell L Fuller	AUS		b35+	w25=	b4-	w23=	b33+	w6-	b11-	w31+	b8=	w15=	w14=	5½
21	David E Rumens	ENG	2300	w7-	b29+	w30+	b9+	w3+	w1-	b10+	w4-	b2-	w12-	b13-	5
22	(Derek) George Ellison	ENG		b4-	w2=	b28+	w10-	b26+	w19=	b25-	w12-	b29=	w24+	b23=	5
23	H Dugald MacPherson	ENG		w6-	b27+	w19=	b20=	w13=	b9-	b16-	w35=	b28=	w30+	w22=	5
24	C Jonathan Lennox	SCO		w9-	b26-	w32-	w35+	b28=	b34=	w29+	b30=	w27=	b22-	w25+	5
25	Peter W Hempson	ENG		w30+	b20=	w13+	b3-	w18=	b15-	w22+	b6-	b11=	w19-	b24-	4½
26	David B Pritchard	ENG		b10-	w24+	w18-	b30=	w22-	b28=	w34=	w32+	b12-	b36=	w29=	4½
27	Paul E Littlewood	ENG	2345	b15-	w23-	b35+	b19-	w30-	w36+	b32=	w33+	b24=	w11-	b28=	4½
28	Bernard Cafferty	ENG	2310	w34=	b17-	w22-	b29=	w24=	w26=	b33=	b36=	w23=	b32=	w27=	4½
29	Alan T Ludgate	IRL	2255	b12-	w21-	b36=	w28=	b31-	w35+	b24-	b34=	w22=	w33+	b26=	4½
30	Gerald H Bennett	ENG	2350	b25-	w35+	b21-	w26=	b27+	w2-	b12=	w24=	b13-	b23-	w36=	4
31	Derek M Wise	ENG		b8-	w32+	b12-	b13-	w29+	w33+	b2-	b20-	w36-	w35=	b34=	4
32	Peter J Romilly	ENG		w18-	b31-	b24+	w33-	b36+	w11-	w27=	b26-	b35+	w28=	b17-	4
33	Frank Parr	ENG		b1-	w36+	w5-	b32+	w20-	b31-	w28=	b27-	w34=	b29-	b35=	3½
34	David O Vaughan	WLS		b28=	w11-	b2-	w36=	b35-	w24=	b26=	w29=	b33=	w17-	w31=	3½
35	Peter J Lee	ENG		w20-	b30-	w27-	b24-	w34+	b29-	w36+	b23=	w32-	b31=	w33=	3½
36	Charles W Pickard	ENG		w13-	b33-	w29=	b34=	w32-	b27-	b35-	w28=	b31+	w26=	b30=	3½

1976 British Ladies Chess Championship (all-play-all) • 1975« »1977

1976 British Ladies Championship		Residence	Elo	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Total
1	Dr. Jana Hartston (née Malypetrova)	Cambridge	2230wm	&;	1	½	½	1	½	1	½	1	½	1	1	8½
2	Sheila Jackson		2055	0	&;	½	½	0	1	1	½	1	1	1	1	7½
3	(Patricia) Anne Sunnucks	Crowthorne	2060wm	½	½	&;	0	½	1	½	1	1	1	1	½	7½
4	Marion McGrath	Australia		½	½	1	&;	1	½	0	1	½	1	½	½	7
5	Susan L Caldwell		2060	0	1	½	0	&;	0	½	1	1	½	1	1	6½
6	Margaret Eileen Elizabeth (Peggy) Clarke	Bude	1970	½	0	0	½	1	&;	½	1	1	½	1	½	6½
7	Dinah Margaret Wright (née Dobson)	Harrow	2070	0	0	½	1	½	½	&;	½	0	1	½	1	5½
8	Rowena Mary Bruce (née Dew)	Plymouth	1990wm	½	½	0	0	0	0	½	&;	½	½	½	1	4
9	Wanda Pritchard	Godalming	1875	0	0	0	½	0	0	1	½	&;	½	½	1	4
10	Jane F Seymour			½	0	0	0	½	½	0	½	½	&;	½	1	4
11	Olive Chataway (née Richards)	Harrow	1950	0	0	0	½	0	0	½	½	½	½	&;	1	3½
12	Rae Galtsmith-Clarke		1800	0	0	½	½	0	½	0	0	0	0	0	&;	1½

1976 BCF Major Open (11-rd Swiss)

Rank	1976 BCF Major Open	Total
1	Julian T Farrand	10/11
2	David A Curnow	8½
3	Roger Emerson	8
4-5	Juergen Boecker (FRG), John W Naylor	7½
6-9	Paul V Byway, Duncan Kerr, Chris J McSheehy, Brian R Smith	7
10-16	R Alan Barton, Paul R Bielby, Paul F Habershon, David J James, Chris Jones, James Steedman, Albert Peter Wernitz (FRG)	6½
17-25	Donald M Andrew, John M Bennett, Michael P Cook, (Denis) Michael Denison, Keith L Escott, Ian McAllan, James Simpson, Peter J Sowray, P Wernitz (FRG)	6
26-36	Nicholas R Benjamin, Ronald Blow, Kevin Bowmer, Michael J Bulford, Graham P Burton, Kenneth G Coates, Percy B Cook, Michael C Davis, Edward Matthewson, William M McDougall (SCO), Ludwig Rellstab (FRG)	5½
37-43	Anthony Robert Cullinane, Arthur Hall, Horst Otto Heuer (FRG), Paul S N Kendall, George Szaszvari, Jim E Vickery, George W Wheeler	5
44-50	Alan D Gravett, Otto Hardy, Barry J Marshall, James R Nicolson, William Phillips (WLS), A Philip Primett, S Williams	4½
51-56	Nasser M Abbasi, David (Paul) L Barasi, Fred Clough, Richard C P Freeman, S L Green, Roger Hardy	4
57	Douglas A Bennett	3½
58-59	J M Haigh, R J F Williams	2½

1976 British U-21 Championship (11-rd Swiss)

(1-3) Richard Britton, Clifford R Chandler, Robin W Haldane 8/11; (4) Shaun M Taulbut 7½; (5-6) Chris W Baker, Peter G Large 7; (7) John H Hodgson 6½; (8-14) S P Goodman, M K Jones, M A Lee, D L Massie, S W Small, P J Szalapaj, Ian R Watson 6; (15-22) K S Ashman, I Bourne, J Burke, Colin S Crouch, J Hall, J McCarthy, Ian Wallis, K P Warren 5½; (23-24) P R Baslington, Simon C Le Blancq 5; (25-26) P F Brown, N A P McSheehy 4½; (27-28) P Coughlin, I P Legg 4; (29) R C Dempsey 3½; (30) M Capek 2½; (31) M Lyus 1½/8; (32) Miss V Craven ½.

1976 British U-18 Championship (11-rd Swiss)

(1) Jonathan C Benjamin (London) 8½/11; (2) Nigel R Davies 8; (3-6) Simon J B Knott, Timothy P Love, Graham Morrison, David R Stringer 7; (7-13) John P Hannan, Simon Macauley, Stephen Mulligan, H James Plaskett, Stephen J Popham, A T Richardson, Daniel Shuttleworth 6½; (14-16) Jonathan J Ady, M J Coogan, Matthew Read 6; (17-20) J Boswell, S J Hooker, Owen Phillips, A J Ryba 5½; (21-24) P B Eastlake, S Foale, David A Houston, B Tedd 5; (25-29) I R C Davies, S J Gregory, A C W Springbett, M Varnham, G Yevko 4½; (30-32) A J Bowden, M Seton, R J Woods 4; (33-35) James D Pratt, D Prees, P Thethi 3½; (36) G Hardy 3.

1976 British Girls U-18 Championship (all-play-all)

(1-2) Angela Eagle, Jane Garwell 5/7; (3) Shirley J Wilson 4½; (4) Maria Eagle 4; (5-6) Debbie H Evans, S Prince 3½; (7) A Boswell 2½; (8) C Smith 0.

1976 British U-16 Championship (11-rd Swiss)

(1) David H Cummings 9/11; (2) Nicholas W Ivell 8½; (3-7) John W Branford, Malcolm Gordon Bucknell, Andrew P Lewis, Malcolm Pein, M Paul Townsend 7½; (8-10) Adam Jefferson Griffiths, Richard J McMichael, Peter J Sullivan 7; (11-15) Nevil Chan, Tom Farrand, Simon D Hannan, Bobo Lo, Carl A Plasa 6½; (16-23) Simon D Brown, Mark R Charter, R Henley, J S Hill, S Johnson, K Mahon, D Roberts, Ian Duncan Wells 6; (24-29) P Anderson, Paul B Conway, Francis Rayner, M Shaw, A G (Alastair Murray?) Simpson, Robert J Woodcraft 5½; (30-35) Robert D M Alster, Martin Buckmaster, David Robert Carless, S J Don, Nigel M Jones (Wolverhampton), Robert C Noyce 5; (36-44) (J?) C Barron, M Doran, Trevor G Dunmore, A Gardner, Colin J Gentile, Gerard M Heap (Wolverhampton), K J Norbury, Richard A Ormesher, K Rakshit 4½; (45-48) M S Kay, D G Marshall, Richard Ian Rudgley, C Suddick 4; (49) P Bill 3½; (50) M V House 3; (51) Marc Bryant 2; (52) Mark L Baxendall 1½.

1976 British U-14 Championship (11-rd Swiss)

(1) Clive Frostick 9½/11; (2-3) Richard F Holmes, Richard M Webb 8; (4-6) Keith Allen, Colin P Garwood, R J Jacobs 7½; (7-10) John Hawksworth, Daniel J King, James Rakshit, Gary Senior 7; (11-13) Andrew J King, Matthew Rose, Neale D Walford 6½; (14-17) Nicolas Mark Marillier Andrews, Neil W Cannon, S H Lee, David Charles Spurgeon 6; (18-29) Christopher J Ballad, S D Bell, D Ford, K C House, C Ashley Jones (Wolverhampton), Patrick S J Jones (Wolverhampton), J Kennedy, D J Miller, P A Norris, G O Roberts, G A White, Kevin A Yeomans 5½; (30-34) C Brookes, T C L Brown, A G Clough, D Edmonds, John E Hockaday 5; (35-39) A Barron, Kevin Beedle, S Pike, Miss Anita Rakshit, J R Smith 4½; (40-43) C Hunter, B R Joyce, Carl S S Roberts, Miss Mira Rakshit 4; (44) J A Brown 3½; (45) R Edmonds 2½; (46-47) S C James, David A Knox 1½; (48) A F Mottram 1.

1976 British Girls U-14 Championship (all-play-all)

(1) Clare Whitehead 6½/7; (2) Carey A Groves 5; (3) Katie Blake 4½; (4) Sally Atkin 4; (5) J Chamberlain 3; (6-7) Gaynor D James, Carena Nicholas 2½; (8) Julia L Scotney 0.

1976 British U-11 Championship (10-rd Swiss)

(1) Andrew C L Dyson 9/10; (2) James C Howell 7; (3-5) D A Jackson, Gary W Lane, B Sloan 6½; (6-11) D Connolly, Neil F Dickenson, T Kelly, V B Lewis, S G Walker, Peter K Wells 6; (12-16) P Daft, P Dixon, M Griffiths, Stephen Mannion (SCO), K Robbins 5½; (17-20) Neil I Fox, T Fyfe, C D St John, Ian A Welch 5; (21-29) Ian Holle, P House, Andrew P H Kinsman, R Ledbury, Darren L Lee, Philip Michael Spurgeon, H T Norris, Aaron Stolow, Graham A Waddingham 4½; (30) James D Hockaday 4; (31) J Richards 2½; (32-33) M Bevan, P Hatchett 1½; (34) S Brill 1.

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1976 British Over 60 (11-rd Swiss)

(1-3) Charles Ambrose Scott Damant, Wilfred Henry Pratten, Harry Ivor Woolverton 8½/11; (4) Walter James Eric Yeeles 7½, (5-7) J Johnson, A Laxton, C W Marshall 6½; (8-9) A F Behmber, Wilfred Evans (Chorleywood) 5½; (10-14) Peter Doig, John W Graham, Alfred Milner, Walter R Rayner, J Richmond 5; (15) F Richardson 4; (16) H E Wadsworth 3; (17) E W Engert 2; (18) R Green 1½.

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BCF First Class (11-rd Swiss)

1 A Williams 9/11; 2 R Franklin 8½; 3-5 Peter Hannan, D P Hurricks, C J West 7½; 6-9 B J Benjamin, C Green, W D Johnson, A Pinkerton 7; 10-13 R Cherubim (FRG), I Judd, G S McCormick, D Mayers 6½; 14-20 M J Benjamin, G A M Boswell, J Druce-Powell, G V Glover, P J McEvoy, M H Micklethwaite, K F Shaw 6; 21-25 H J Draisey, P Griffiths, S Welbourne, R Woodcock, D G Woodruff 5½; 26-34 M Bird, Michael T Bolan, S J Drury, F Cole, Frank G Hatto, M R Lee, K A Lucas, John Philip Scragg, E J Simpson 5; 35-38 P J Guyan, T J O’Donohue, T V Parrott, P Rose 3½; 39 F A Winter 4; 40-42 K Getty, E D Hockaday, N Meredith 3½; 43 J C Calvert 2½, 44 A J Doherty 1½; 45 G Burnett 1.

5 Day, Morning - 1st week (5-rd Swiss)

1 J O Pedersen (DK) 4½/5; 2-4 R M Horner, T Knoth, P A J Rose 4; 5-8 Jacob (Jack) Alster, O Eriksen (DK), C Kjersgaard (DK), P D Smith 3½; 9-12 D W Bell, D Branford, D Welch, S L Whitehead 3; 13-19 W T Chamberlain, P W L Clough, K E Eriksen (DK), C F Fielding, O Hald (DK), A J Mezzo, I Watson 2½; 20-27 G Davie, A Foster, P Kenning, O Ledbury, D I R Norris, D H Sprigley, M Stolow, A Whitehead 2; 28 F Martin 1½; 29-31 A J Bullen, C M W Daft, K Wilkinson 1; 32 D V Booth ½; 33 J Coogan 0.

5 Day, Afternoon - 1st week (5-rd Swiss)

1-2 Philip Giulian, Tim Parkes 4½/5; 3-4 C M Cooley, H Plukker (NL) 4; 5-6 P Morrey, J Ryan 3½; 7-11 E N Bramley, B Fraser, J Lehmensick, W D Muir, E Oliver 3; 12-15 P M Hodgson, A Leggatt, Richard W O’Brien, R H Saunders 2½; 16-19 C W Bryan, P W Mottram, J D Robins, M Vernon 2; 20-23 J R Beadle, G W L Evans, J D H Nicholas, R S Thornton 1½; 24-26 J D Evans, Mrs A Garwell, D Russell.

5 Day, Morning - 2nd week (5-rd Swiss)

1 F Watson 5/5; 2-3 K A J Francis, L Mouillaux (F) 4; 4-5 B Cox, H Plukker (NED) 3½; 6-11 Ms Debbie Evans, A Kinder, L W Prescott, P Spurgeon, L A Trangmar, I Whittaker 3; 12-16 M Cole, K Davies, R J Nash, N Staples, A Willis 2½; 17-19 D Lee, R W O’Brien, S L Whitehead 2; 20-22 E E Croker, F F Jacquier, R G Jones 1½; 23-26 Jacob (Jack) Alster 1, C Cheetham, G M Evans, Carey Groves 1.

5 Day, Afternoon - 2nd week (5-rd Swiss)

1-2 J Lehmensick, Tim Parkes 4/5; 3 E Oliver 3½; 4-6 D V Booth, Chris M Cooley, M Cox 3; 7-10 B Peter A Andrews, P Morrey, R H Saunders, D J Scotney 2½; 11-13 L C Allen, G Beattie, Miss Shirley J Wilson 2; 14 J R Beadle 1½; 15-16 Miss Jean Pickles, G D Scotney 1.

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File Updated

Date	Notes
18 September 2017	Added full results
16 July 2020	Some cosmetic amendments to spelling, etc. At some point I will replace the bulk of initials with forenames.
17 February 2024	Now with 20 games from other sections, including Roger Emerson's games from the Major Open.
8 June 2024	Added the game A.J.Griffiths 0-1 M.P.Townsend (Under-16), kindly contributed by Gerard Killoran.
12 October 2024	Added the game DM Andrew 1-0 G Szaszvari, Major Open. Contributed by Gerard Killoran via the English Chess Forum, 11 October 2024, for which many thanks.