1936 Nottingham, 10-28 August

1936 Nottingham Tournament		Nationality	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	Total
1	Mikhail Botvinnik	USSR	&;	½	½	½	½	½	½	½	1	1	1	1	1	1	½	10
2	José Raúl Capablanca	Cuba	½	&;	½	½	1	1	0	½	1	½	½	1	1	1	1	10
3	Max Euwe	Netherlands	½	½	&;	½	1	0	½	0	1	½	1	1	1	1	1	9½
4	Reuben Fine	USA	½	½	½	&;	½	½	½	1	½	1	½	1	1	½	1	9½
5	Samuel Herman Reshevsky	USA	½	0	0	½	&;	1	½	1	1	1	½	1	1	1	½	9½
6	Alexander Alekhine	France	½	0	1	½	0	&;	1	½	½	1	1	½	1	½	1	9
7	Salo Flohr	Czechoslovakia	½	1	½	½	½	0	&;	1	1	1	½	0	0	1	1	8½
8	Emanuel Lasker	USSR	½	½	1	0	0	½	0	&;	½	1	½	1	1	1	1	8½
9	Milan Vidmar, snr	Yugoslavia	0	0	0	½	0	½	0	½	&;	1	½	½	1	½	1	6
10	Efim Bogoljubow	Germany	0	½	½	0	0	0	0	0	0	&;	½	1	1	1	1	5½
11	Saviely Tartakower	Poland	0	½	0	½	½	0	½	½	½	½	&;	0	0	1	1	5½
12	Theodore Henry Tylor	Great Britain	0	0	0	0	0	½	1	0	½	0	1	&;	½	½	½	4½
13	C Hugh O'D Alexander	Great Britain	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	½	&;	½	½	3½
14	Sir George Alan Thomas	Great Britain	0	0	0	½	0	½	0	0	½	0	0	½	½	&;	½	3
15	William Winter	Great Britain	½	0	0	0	½	0	0	0	0	0	0	½	½	½	&;	2½

Image from The Times, 26 August 1936

1936 British Ladies' Chess Championship, Nottingham • 1935« »1937

1936 British Ladies' Championship		Resid.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Total
1	Mrs Edith Holloway	London	&;	1	½	½	½	1	1	1	½	1	1	1	9
2	Miss Agnes Margaret Crum	Edinburgh	0	&;	1	½	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	½	8
3	Mrs Florence Frankland Thomson	Glasgow	½	0	&;	0	½	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	8
4	Miss Mary Dinorah Gilchrist	Edinburgh	½	½	1	&;	0	1	½	0	1	1	1	1	7½
5	Mrs Edith St John	Manchester	½	1	½	1	&;	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	7
6	Mrs Edith Mary Ann Michell	Kingston-upon-T	0	0	0	0	1	&;	1	1	0	1	1	1	6
7	Miss Rowena Mary Dew	Plymouth	0	0	0	½	0	0	&;	1	1	1	0	1	4½
8	Mrs Helen Muriel Cobbold	London	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	&;	½	½	1	1	4
9	Miss M[ary] L[ouisa] Harrison	Eastbourne	½	0	0	0	0	1	0	½	&;	1	0	1	4
10	Miss Emily Eliza Abraham	Deal	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	½	0	&;	1	1	3½
11	Miss Katharine Tate Austin	London	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	&;	0	3
12	Lady Muriel Ivy Scobell Mackereth	Manchester	0	½	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	&;	1½

Draw order for Ladies' Championship: 1 St John, 2 Gilchrist, 3 Harrison, 4 Cobbold, 5 Thomson, 6 Austin, 7 Dew, 8 Mackereth (who replaced Mrs Budge), 9 Michell, 10 Abraham (who replaced Miss Forbes), 11 Holloway, 12 Crum (pairing table)

1936 BCF Major Open, Section A

1936 BCF Major Open, Section A		Resid.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Total
1	Salo Landau	Netherlands ‡	&;	½	½	½	1	1	½	½	1	1	1	7½
2	Ernst Ludwig Klein	Austria	½	&;	0	1	½	0	1	1	1	1	1	7
3	(William) Ritson Morry	Sutton Coldfield	½	1	&;	1	1	1	0	0	0	1	1	6½
4	Dr Paul M List	Berlin	½	0	0	&;	1	1	1	1	1	1	0	6½
5	Reginald Pryce Michell	Kingston-upon-T	0	½	0	0	&;	1	½	1	1	1	1	6
6	Sonja Graf	London	0	1	0	0	0	&;	½	1	1	½	1	5
7	Ronald MacKay Bruce	Plymouth	½	0	1	0	½	½	&;	0	1	0	1	4½
8	Edward Mackenzie Jackson	Bexhill	½	0	1	0	0	0	1	&;	0	1	1	4½
9	Henry Holwell Cole	London	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	&;	1	1	4
10	John Bertram Goodman	Plymouth	0	0	0	0	0	½	1	0	0	&;	½	2
11	Alfred Joseph Butcher	Wolverhampton	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	½	&;	1

‡ BCM gives France for Landau's country but I think Netherlands is correct.

Draw order in the above tournament: 1 Cole, 2 Morry, 3 Jackson, 4 (missing 12th player, who was to have been S. Fajarowicz - ref. Manchester Guardian, 18 Aug 1936), 5 List, 6 Goodman, 7 Michell, 8 Graf, 9 Klein, 10 Butcher, 11 Landau, 12 Bruce (pairing table)

1936 BCF Major Open, Section B

1936 BCF Major Open, Section B		Resid.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Total
1	Dr Josef Isaevich Cukierman	Paris	&;	0	0	1	½	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	8½
2	Arthur Reynolds	Solihull	1	&;	1	1	1	1	0	0	1	½	1	1	8½
3	Gerald Abrahams	London	1	0	&;	½	1	½	1	0	1	½	½	1	7
4	Karel Opocensky	Prague	0	0	½	&;	1	1	1	½	1	1	½	½	7
5	Harold Vincent Mallison	Exeter	½	0	0	0	&;	1	1	½	½	1	1	½	6
6	Alfred Lenton	Leicester	0	0	½	0	0	&;	1	1	0	1	1	1	5½
7	Baruch Harold Wood	Sutton Coldfield	0	1	0	0	0	0	&;	1	1	0	1	1	5
8	Vera Menchik	London	0	1	1	½	½	0	0	&;	0	½	1	0	4½
9	William Henry Watts	London	0	0	0	0	½	1	0	1	&;	1	0	½	4
10	James Marston Craddock	Woking	0	½	½	0	0	0	1	½	0	&;	0	1	3½
11	Francis George Tims Collins	Oxford	0	0	½	½	0	0	0	0	1	1	&;	½	3½
12	Sidney S Coggan	USA	0	0	0	½	½	0	0	1	½	0	½	&;	3

Draw order in the above tournament: 1 Collins, 2 Coggan, 3 Menchik, 4 Wood, 5 Cukierman, 6 Mallison, 7 Lenton, 8 Opocensky, 9 Abrahams, 10 Watts, 11 Craddock, 12 Reynolds (pairing table)

1936 BCF First Class, Section A

1936 BCF First Class, Section A		Resid.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total
1	Alfred John Duke	London	&;	0	1	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	7
2	John James O'Hanlon	Dublin	1	&;	0	1	1	1	0	1	1	1	7
3	Harry Ivor Woolverton	London	0	1	&;	1	1	½	½	1	1	1	7
4	Ronald William Hornbrook	Plymouth	1	0	0	&;	0	1	½	½	1	1	5
5	Francis Avery Sisley	Chelmsford	0	0	0	1	&;	0	1	½	1	1	4½
6	A C Sullivan	Bristol	0	0	½	0	1	&;	½	1	1	½	4½
7	John MacAlister	London	0	1	½	½	0	½	&;	½	½	½	4
8	Capt. Hugh Windsor Fiesch Heneage	Brighton	0	0	0	½	½	0	½	&;	0	1	2½
9	E A Jones	Flint	0	0	0	0	0	0	½	1	&;	1	2½
10	Arnold Yorwarth Green	Nottingham	0	0	0	0	0	½	½	0	0	&;	1

1936 BCF First Class, Section B

1936 BCF First Class, Section B		Resid.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Total
1	Thomas Cox	Dublin	&;	½	1	½	½	½	1	1	1	½	1	1	8½
2	Patrick Humphrey Sullivan	Dartford	½	&;	0	½	½	1	1	1	1	½	1	1	8
3	Ward Mayhew Parker Mitchell	USA	0	1	&;	0	½	1	½	1	½	1	1	1	7½
4	Cecil Hunter Reid	London	½	½	1	&;	1	½	½	0	½	1	1	1	7½
5	C Welch	Bristol	½	½	½	0	&;	½	½	1	1	½	1	1	7
6	William Henderson	London	½	0	0	½	½	&;	1	1	0	½	1	1	6
7	John Keeble	Norwich	0	0	½	½	½	0	&;	½	½	1	1	1	5½
8	Ronald Lee-Johnson	Hertford	0	0	0	1	0	0	½	&;	1	1	1	1	5½
9	George James Craddock	Woking	0	0	½	½	0	1	½	0	&;	1	0	1	4½
10	Edward Victor Strugnell	London	½	½	0	0	½	½	0	0	0	&;	½	1	3½
11	Rev Arthur Percival Lacy-Hulbert	Ludlow	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	½	&;	1	2½
12	P H Litvinsky [a.k.a. Paul Hugo Little]	USA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	&;	0

1936 BCF First Class, Section C

1936 BCF First Class, Section C		Resid.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Total
1	Luís Neftali Ponce Miranda1	Glasgow	&;	½	1	1	1	½	½	1	½	1	1	8
2	Francis Noel Jameson	Ilford	½	&;	½	1	½	1	0	1	1	1	1	7½
3	Arthur T Watson	Brighton	0	½	&;	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	1	6½
4	Leonard Charles Birch	Morden	0	0	0	&;	1	½	1	0	1	1	1	5½
5	C H Taylor	Wells	0	½	0	0	&;	0	1	1	1	1	½	5
6	Ernest J Randall	London	½	0	0	½	1	&;	½	½	½	½	1	5
7	S Feldman	London	½	1	0	0	0	½	&;	½	1	1	0	4½
8	H W Calvert	Blackpool	0	0	0	1	0	½	½	&;	1	0	1	4
9	Lt Col Charles Edward Stuart-Prince	Nice	½	0	1	0	0	½	0	0	&;	½	1	3½
10	Victor Coates	London	0	0	1	0	0	½	0	1	½	&;	0	3
11	Maurice Ellinger	London	0	0	0	0	½	0	1	0	0	1	&;	2½

¹ Interesting biographical details about the winner of this section, Luís Neftali Ponce Miranda, may be found on the Chess Scotland website.

1936 BCF First Class, Section D

1936 BCF First Class, Section D		Resid.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Total
1	Charles Ambrose Scott Damant	Bognor	&;	½	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	0	1	1	8½
2	John Francis O'Donovan	London	½	&;	½	1	1	1	1	1	½	0	½	1	8
3	Austen Lacey Homer	Stourbridge	1	½	&;	0	1	½	½	1	½	1	1	1	8
4	Charles William Roberts	Brighouse	0	0	1	&;	½	1	½	0	1	½	1	1	6½
5	R Harland	Newcastle-upon-T	0	0	0	½	&;	0	1	1	1	1	1	½	6
6	Frederick William Flear	Welwyn	0	0	½	0	1	&;	0	1	½	1	½	1	5½
7	R A Wood	Bury St Edmunds	0	0	½	½	0	1	&;	1	0	1	½	1	5½
8	Philip Charles Hoad	London	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	&;	1	1	1	1	5
9	Douglas Wycliffe Egginton	Teignmouth	0	½	½	0	0	½	1	0	&;	1	0	1	4½
10	John David Solomon	London	1	1	0	½	0	0	0	0	0	&;	1	1	4½
11	Edward Buddel Puckridge	Bickley	0	½	0	0	0	½	½	0	1	0	&;	1	3½
12	J Mackenzie	Exmouth	0	0	0	0	½	0	0	0	0	0	0	&;	½

1936 BCF Second Class, Section A

1936 BCF Second Class, Section A		Resid.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Total
1	William Courtenay Dawes Cruttenden	St Leonards	&;	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	5
2	George Arthur Peck	Nottingham	1	&;	½	½	1	0	1	½	4½
3	John Stanley Richardson	Sheffield	1	½	&;	1	0	½	1	½	4½
4	F M Kolisch (Dr)	Prague	0	½	0	&;	1	1	½	1	4
5	Herbert William Tidball1	Birmingham	0	0	1	0	&;	1	1	1	4
6	Rev. Henry Charles de Barathy	Blackburn	0	1	½	0	0	&;	½	1	3
7	W A Aston	Wolverhampton	0	0	0	½	0	½	&;	½	1½
8	R Richards	Cropwell Bishop	0	½	½	0	0	0	½	&;	1½

¹ BCM gives 'H W Tidwell' but I think this is a misprint. H W Tidball also played at the 1935 BCF Congress.

1936 BCF Second Class, Section B

1936 BCF Second Class, Section B		Resid.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total
1	F Knighton	Preston	&;	0	1	0	½	1	0	1	1	1	5½
2	Dr. Charles Llewellyn Lander	Dorset	1	&;	0	0	1	1	0	½	1	1	5½
3	Bertram Victor Andrews	Winsford	0	1	&;	1	0	1	1	0	0	1	5
4	James M Ellam	Kingston-upon-T	1	1	0	&;	0	0	1	1	1	0	5
5	Arthur John Peters	Oxford	½	0	1	1	&;	0	½	½	1	½	5
6	Rev. Wilfrid Benson	Derby	0	0	0	1	1	&;	1	1	0	0	4
7	R D Lester	Windsor	1	1	0	0	½	0	&;	½	0	1	4
8	Leo/Leiser Schächter1	London	0	½	1	0	½	0	½	&;	½	1	4
9	William Arthur Hardy2	Norwich	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	½	&;	0	3½
10	Cyril A Nightingale	Reading	0	0	0	1	½	1	0	0	1	&;	3½

¹ also spelt Schachter or Schaechter
² obituary, BCM, September 1938, p396

1936 BCF Third Class, Division 1

1936 BCF Third Class, Division 1		Resid.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Total
1	Miss Margaret Eleanor Lander1	Dorset	&;	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	9
2	Rev Henry Middleton Blackett	Nottingham	1	&;	0	1	1	1	1	0	1	1	1	8
3	A L Gordon	London	0	1	&;	0	½	1	1	1	1	1	1	7½
4	Miss Kate Harris Passmore	Exeter	0	0	1	&;	½	1	1	1	1	1	1	7½
5	William H Reynolds	Rugby	0	0	½	½	&;	1	0	0	1	1	1	5
6	Samuel Reginald Tomkinson	Liverpool	0	0	0	0	0	&;	1	1	1	1	1	5
7	Miss Violet Hewetson Benson	Derby	0	0	0	0	1	0	&;	0	1	1	1	4
8	R W Watkinson	Lancaster	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	&;	0	0	1	4
9	John E Coleman	Grays	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	&;	1	0	2
10	A Trimnell	London	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	&;	1	2
11	(Lady) Melita Ida Elizabeth Seyd	London	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	&;	1

¹ Margaret Eleanor Lander (1907-72) was a chess benefactor, donating a prize to go to the British Women's Champion every year. She was the daughter of Dr Charles Llewellyn Lander who played in another section of this congress. She was from Gillingham, Dorset (not the better known Gillingham in Kent).

1936 BCF Third Class, Division 2 (Section A)

1936 BCF Third Class, Division 2 (Section A)		Resid.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Total
1	F T Stephenson	West Bridgford	&;	1	1	1	1	0	1	1	1	1	1	9
2	H W Histon	Nottingham	0	&;	½	1	0	½	1	1	1	1	1	7
3	Frank Percival Pounce	Wolverhampton	0	½	&;	0	½	1	1	1	1	1	1	7
4	Miss Adelaide Mary Bishop	East Grinstead	0	0	1	&;	1	1	1	0	½	1	1	6½
5	Arthur William Hornbrook	Plymouth	0	1	½	0	&;	1	0	½	1	1	1	6
6	Miss N F Harris	London	1	½	0	0	0	&;	0	1	1	1	1	5½
7	Miss Susan Gladys Redhead (later Irvine)1	Blackpool	0	0	0	0	1	1	&;	½	1	1	1	5½
8	Mrs Grace Lydia Mallison (née Pepper)	Exeter	0	0	0	1	½	0	½	&;	1	1	1	5
9	Rev. D Russell Mitchell	Newton Stewart	0	0	0	½	0	0	0	0	&;	½	1	2
10	Mrs F Simpson	Brighton	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	½	&;	1	1½
11	Miss Edith Maud E J Goodacre	Cheltenham	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	&;	0

¹ BCM crosstable gives her as 'Miss G. S. Redhead (Sutton-in-Ashfield) but newspaper reports give 'Blackpool' and BMD records indicate a different order of forenames.

1936 BCF Third Class, Division 2 (Section B)

1936 BCF Third Class, Division 2 (Section B)		Resid.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Total
1	F Matthews	Nottingham	&;	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	½	1	8½
2	N H Phillips	London	1	&;	0	½	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	8½
3	James Walter Frederick Greenleaf	Newport, Mon.	0	1	&;	1	0	½	1	0	1	1	1	6½
4	Francis Cecil Hornbrook	Plymouth	0	½	0	&;	1	1	½	1	½	½	1	6
5	Warwick Nash	Athlone	0	0	1	0	&;	0	1	1	0	1	1	5
6	Rev. Horace J Mundy1	Hull	0	0	½	0	1	&;	0	1	0	1	1	4½
7	Dr Henry Thomas Herbert Piaggio	Nottingham	0	0	0	½	0	1	&;	1	1	1	0	4½
8	Rev. Frederick Mabor Hodges Roper	Norwich	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	&;	1	½	1	3½
9	Mrs Mary Dew (née Rowe)	Plymouth	0	0	0	½	1	1	0	0	&;	0	½	3
10	Miss Marjorie Oxley Lineker (later Beattie)	Sutton-in-Ashfield	½	0	0	½	0	0	0	½	1	&;	0	2½
11	Miss L Romilly	London	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	½	1	&;	2½

¹ correcting a major error in the BCM crosstable (which has the name 'Rev. H. J. M. Hull' and nothing in the residence column! Correct name and initials found in a newspaper report - Nottingham Evening Post, 27 August 1936, p12)

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File Updated

Date	Note
1999	All 105 games of this famous event, originally posted here.
6 July 2012	Round numbers and dates added. As it is one of Britain's most important chess tournaments ever, I have gone over it again and included contemporary source references, checking the game scores as I went through the file. This process has turned up a number of discrepancies with versions of games which appear generally on commercial and online databases compared to older printed sources (for example, Bogoljubow-Botvinnik seems to feature a wrong move in all online versions of the game; as does Vidmar-Bogoljubow, Rd 6). I have documented these discrepancies in situ. I have also added details of newspaper references to incidents (e.g. Capablanca-Alekhine, Rd 2, and the analytical discussions following Winter-Capablanca, Rd 12) and some biographical items. I have added 39 games from subsidiary events, including the two very strong Major Opens which were held alongside.
7 April 2016	Included six more games from the Major Open and subsidiary events, making 45 in all. My thanks to Brian Denman.
27 November 2020	Replacement of scans with typeset crosstables, adding forenames and personal details where available.
30 November 2020	An almost complete game added: T.Cox-W.M.P.Mitchell from First-Class B. Thanks to Sean Coffey for submitting.
27 November 2021	Two games from subsidiary sections added: (1) H.Cole 1-0 J.Goodman, Major Open A; (2) H.Woolverton ½-½ J.MacAlister, First Class A. Thanks to Gerard Killoran for contributing these (via the English Chess Forum).
28 November 2021	One further game and one part-game from Major Open A added: (1) E.Klein 1-0 E.M.Jackson, rd 10; (2) part-game S.Landau ½-½ E. Klein, rd 7. My thanks to Ulrich Tamm for contributing.
27 April 2022	Added two games: (1) A.Reynolds 1-0 S.Coggan (Major Open B, rd 2); (2) Lacy-Hulbert 1-0 G Craddock (First Class B), contributed by Gerard Killoran via the English Chess Forum, for which many thanks.
13 May 2023	Added one game from the Women's Championship: E.St John 1-0 A.Crum (rd 11, 28.08.36). Contributed by Gerard Killoran via the English Chess Forum, for which many thanks.
31 May 2023	Added a (very interesting) part-game which I found in Walter Korn's The Brilliant Touch (Pitman 1950): A.Reynolds 0-1 B.H.Wood, Major Open B (rd 6).
12 February 2024	A few minor amendments made to game scores after comparing them with other sources.