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

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

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1976/77 Hastings Challengers

1976/77 Hastings Challengers		Resid/Fed	Elo	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	R9	R10	Total
1	Jonathan Tisdall	New York USA	2390	+29	+20	+13	=33	+32	=3	+12	—2	+10	+5	8
2	Karlheinz Bachmann	Solingen FRG		=62	+23	—10	+37	+13	+47	+27	+1	=5	=3	7½
3	Wolfgang Huisl	Hofheim FRG		+9	+4	+47	=32	+33	=1	+7	—5	+19	=2	7½
4	Michael J Franklin	London	2325	+60	—3	=46	+39	=34	=16	+47	=32	+36	+7	7
5	Seng Hoo Lim	Singapore		+67	=15	—12	+48	+31	+10	+44	+3	=2	—1	7
6	Dimo Werner	Mainz FRG		Bye	=39	+66	=12	—44	+11	+32	=7	=9	+13	7
7	Julian Gralka	Poland		=34	+22	+39	+8	=36	+19	—3	=6	+27	—4	6½
8	Hans Hoffmann	Sindelfingen FRG		=54	+51	+31	—7	+58	+33	=36	—10	+12	=14	6½
9	Richard Lobo	London		—3	+65	+67	+56	—27	=15	+61	+33	=6	=10	6½
10	George Rajna	Budapest HUN	2410	=36	+52	+2	=15	+18	—5	+34	+8	—1	=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	=6	+46	=27	—1	+15	—8	=11	6
13	Mark L Hebden	Leicester		+42	+56	—1	=47	—2	+58	=14	+29	+34	—6	6
14	Glenn E J Lambert	Portsmouth		=17	—36	+54	+28	—47	+45	=13	=16	+39	=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	+33	6
17	Ulrich Nehmert	W Germany	2380	=14	—34	=23	—11	+63	+55	+42	+46	=20	=19	6
18	Thomas Pioch	Flörsheim / POL	2250	+24	—47	+57	+38	—10	=32	—33	=45	+43	+36	6
19	Orest Popovych	USA	2405	+50	—25	+42	+35	+15	—7	=20	+44	—3	=17	6
20	Nigel E Povah	London	2300	+53	—1	—35	+67	+30	=43	=19	+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	+60	+24	=15	=29	5½
23	Bela Balogh	Hungary	2270	=37	—2	=17	—21	+67	+57	=48	—26	+51	+44d	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	—33	+30	+9	=12	—2	+36	—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	—1	=50	=21	=26	+51	=48	+38	—13	+56	=22	5½
30	Stephen Matzner	USA		—25	+26	+41	—27	—20	—35	+55	=35	+58	+56d	5½
31	Bernard M Rothbart	London		=43	+62	—8	+66	—5	—46	=65	=30	+54	+38	5½
32	Terence J Stuttard	Manchester		+21	+35	+25	=3	—1	=18	—6	=4	=33	=26	5½
33	Danny Kopec	USA		+45	+44	+27	=1	—3	—8	+18	—9	=32	—16	5
34	David I Patrick	London		=7	+17	+37	—36	=4	+38	—10	+43	—13	—15	5
35	Bernd Stein	Hamburg FRG		+64	—32	+20	—19	—38	+30	=26	=48	+37	w/d	5 / 9
36	Shaun M Taulbut	Marlborough		=10	+14	+40	+34	=7	=44	=8	—27	—4	—18	5
37	Michael E Binks	Bristol		=23	+38	—34	—2	=56	+25	—11	+42	—35	=39	4½
38	Richard Britton	Hull		—27	+63	+11	—18	+35	—34	—29	+65	=46	—31	4½
39	R[olf?] Bruening	W Germany		+59	=6	—7	—4	—28	+67	+40	=56	—14	=37	4½
40	Ulrich Christoffel	W Germany		+48	=12	—36	=61	—11	=65	—39	+49	—45	+57d	4½
41	David A Curnow	Epsom		=57	+54	—30	=22	—16	—28	=49	+62	=52	=43	4½
42	Guenther Langhanke	W Germany		—13	+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	+63	—33	+43	+25	+6	=36	—5	—19	—21	—23d	4½
45	Charles W Pickard	Hitchin		—33	+69	=50	=16	=22	—14	=58	=18	+40	—24	4½
46	Peter J Romilly	Leeds		+65	—27	=4	+62	—12	+31	=43	—17	=38	—28	4½
47	Serge Rubinraut	Australia		+69	+18	—3	=8	+14	—2	—4	+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	—40	+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	+59	—58	—29	=60	=57	+50	—23	=49	4
52	Gisbert Jacoby	W Germany		=61	—10	—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	—17	—30	+63	=62	=54	4
56	Johann H van Baarle	NED	2330	+26	—13	+24	—9	=37	—61	+50	=39	—29	—30d	4
57	Walter Benesch	Mannheim FRG		=41	=61	—18	=42	=50	—23	=51	+59	—24	—40d	3½
58	E Eisenbeiser			—15	=53	+52	+51	—8	—13	=45	=54	—30	w/d	3½ / 9
59	Julian M Hodgson	London		—39	=21	—51	—54	—60	bye	+67	—57	—49	+64	3½
60	Leo B Jansen	Dordrecht NED		—4	—24	=64	—65	+59	=51	—22	—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		—44	—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	—38	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

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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.

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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.