1958 (6th) Bognor Regis: Stevenson Memorial, Wednesday 9 April - Saturday 19 April 1958 • 1957«»1959

Venue: Rex Ballroom, Bognor Regis

1958 Stevenson Memorial, Bognor Regis			Resid.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total
1	GM	Borislav Ivkov	Yugoslavia	◊ 1/38	♦ ½/10	◊ 1/32	♦ 1/11	◊ ½/2	♦ ½/9	◊ 1/21	♦ ½/3	◊ ½/7	◊ 1/4	7½
2	IM	Nikola Karaklajic	Yugoslavia	♦ 1/22	◊ ½/3	♦ 1/20	◊ 1/5	♦ ½/1	◊ ½/7	♦ 1/12	◊ ½/4	♦ 1/8	♦ ½/9	7½
3	IM	Robert G Wade (SCCU Champ)	New Zealand	◊ 1/46	♦ ½/2	◊ 0/11	♦ 1/28	◊ 1/35	♦ 1/16	◊ 1/9	◊ ½/1	♦ ½/4	♦ 1/7	7½
4		Peter Hugh Clarke	Ilford	♦ 1/40	◊ 1/41	◊ ½/16	♦ ½/9	◊ 1/8	♦ 1/23	◊ 1/7	♦ ½/2	◊ ½/3	♦ 0/1	7
5		Herbert Gibson Rhodes1	Southport	◊ 1/33	♦ 1/23	◊ ½/9	♦ 0/2	◊ ½/11	♦ 0/21	◊ 1/15	♦ 1/14	◊ 1/10	♦ 1/19	7
6		Borge Andersen	Copenhagen	◊ 1/15	♦ ½/35	◊ 0/10	♦ 1/13	◊ ½/21	♦ 1/11	◊ ½/8	♦ 0/7	◊ 1/23	◊ 1/16	6½
7		Dragutin Dimc	Yugoslavia	◊ 1/18	♦ 1/31	◊ 1/8	♦ ½/16	◊ 1/10	♦ ½/2	♦ 0/4	◊ 1/6	♦ ½/1	◊ 0/3	6½
8		(Philip) Stuart Milner-Barry	Blackheath	♦ 1/26	◊ 1/19	♦ 0/7	◊ 1/22	♦ 0/4	◊ 1/39	♦ ½/6	◊ 1/12	◊ 0/2	♦ 1/21	6½
9	IM	Román Torán Albero	Spain	♦ 1/13	◊ 1/28	♦ ½/5	◊ ½/4	♦ 1/18	◊ ½/1	♦ 0/3	◊ ½/16	♦ 1/17	◊ ½/2	6½
10		Leonard William Barden	Surrey	♦ 1/24	◊ ½/1	♦ 1/6	◊ 1/17	♦ 0/7	◊ 0/12	♦ ½/39	◊ 1/25	♦ 0/5	◊ 1/27	6
11		Geoffrey F Harris	Stourbridge	♦ ½/25	◊ 1/29	♦ 1/3	◊ 0/1	♦ ½/5	◊ 0/6	♦ 1/41	♦ ½/23	◊ 1/20	◊ ½/12	6
12		(Henry) Alec Samuels	London	◊ ½/43	♦ 1/47	◊ ½/35	♦ 1/26	◊ ½/16	♦ 1/10	◊ 0/2	♦ 0/8	◊ 1/30	♦ ½/11	6
13		David George Springgay	Brighton	◊ 0/9	♦ 1/36	♦ ½/40	◊ 0/6	♦ 1/34	◊ 1/29	♦ ½/17	◊ 0/19	♦ 1/26	◊ 1/25	6
14		Donald Gilbertson	London	♦ 0/28	◊ ½/24	♦ 1/42	◊ ½/25	♦ ½/22	♦ 1/31	◊ ½/32	◊ 0/5	♦ ½/18	◊ 1/39	5½
15		Owen M Hindle	Norwich	♦ 0/6	◊ ½/42	♦ 1/48	◊ ½/20	♦ ½/19	◊ ½/25	♦ 0/5	◊ 1/41	♦ 1/34	◊ ½/17	5½
16		Donald G Mackay	Balham	♦ 1/48	◊ 1/39	♦ ½/4	◊ ½/7	♦ ½/12	◊ 0/3	♦ 1/20	♦ ½/9	◊ ½/21	♦ 0/6	5½
17		Stewart Reuben	London	◊ ½/47	♦ 1/43	◊ 1/21	♦ 0/10	◊ 0/23	♦ 1/36	◊ ½/13	♦ 1/32	◊ 0/9	♦ ½/15	5½
18		Jack Dennis Rosse2	London	♦ 0/7	◊ 1/44	♦ 1/28	♦ ½/35	◊ 0/9	◊ 0/20	♦ 1/29	◊ ½/22	◊ ½/14	♦ 1/30	5½
19		Eileen Betsy Tranmer	London	◊ 1/37	♦ 0/8	◊ 0/26	♦ 1/44	◊ ½/15	♦ ½/38	◊ ½/35	♦ 1/13	♦ 1/39	◊ 0/5	5½
20		Philip Norman Wallis	Warwickshire	◊ 1/36	♦ ½/21	◊ 0/2	♦ ½/15	◊ ½/32	♦ 1/18	◊ 0/16	♦ 1/38	♦ 0/11	◊ 1/29	5½
21		Baruch Harold Wood	Sutton Coldfield	♦ 1/30	◊ ½/20	♦ 0/17	◊ 1/34	♦ ½/6	◊ 1/5	♦ 0/1	◊ 1/39	♦ ½/16	◊ 0/8	5½
22		Michael Robert Brierley Clarke	Epsom	◊ 0/2	1	1/38	♦ 0/8	◊ ½/14	♦ 0/32	◊ 1/??	♦ ½/18	½/24	♦ ½/23	5
23		Arthur Hall	Kenton, Oxford	1/34	◊ 0/5	♦ ½/39	◊ 1/29	♦ 1/17	♦ 0/4	½/25	◊ ½/11	♦ 0/6	◊ ½/22	5
24		David Edward Lloyd	Birmingham	◊ 0/10	♦ ½/14	◊ 0/36	♦ 1/47	◊ ½/30	♦ ½/28	1/31	½	½/22	½	5
25		Harry Gethin Thorp Matchett	Birmingham	◊ ½/11	♦ 0/32	◊ 1/45	♦ ½/14	◊ 1/26	♦ ½/15	½/23	♦ 0/10	◊ 1/38	♦ 0/13	5
26		Arnolds Mazitis	London	◊ 0/8		♦ 1/19	◊ 0/12	♦ 0/25	◊ ?/44			◊ 0/13		5
27		(Patricia) Anne Sunnucks	Woolwich	♦ 0/39	◊ 0/40	◊ 1/33	♦ 0/36		◊ 1/46		◊ 1/44	♦ 1/32	♦ 0/10	5
28		G Tanfield	London	◊ 1/14	♦ 0/9	◊ 0/18	◊ 0/3		◊ ½/24					5
29		(Derek) George Ellison	Bolton		♦ 0/11		♦ 0/23	1/40	♦ 0/13	◊ 0/18		1/31	♦ 0/20	4½
30		J Eyre	London	◊ 0/21		1/43	◊ 0/39	♦ ½/24	♦ 1/37			♦ 0/12	◊ 0/18	4½
31		Michael Philip Furmston	Birmingham	1/44	◊ 0/7	♦ ½/34	◊ 1/40	0/39	◊ 0/14	0/24	1	0/29	1	4½
32		Thomas Guy	Brighton		◊ 1/25	♦ 0/1		♦ ½/20	◊ 1/22	♦ ½/14	◊ 0/17	◊ 0/27		4½
33		Stanley Charles Love	Wimbledon	♦ 0/5		♦ 0/27			◊ 1/42					4½
34		Reginald William Stevenson	Redhill	0/23		◊ ½/31	♦ 0/21	◊ 0/13	♦ /43			◊ 0/15		4½
35		George Harold Foster Tredinnick	Barnes	♦ 1/42	◊ ½/6	♦ ½/12	◊ ½/18	♦ 0/3	◊ ½/41	♦ ½/19				4½
36		Fred Clough	Birmingham	♦ 0/20	◊ 0/13	♦ 1/24	◊ 1/27	♦ ½/41	◊ 0/17	♦ ½/44	0	1/42	0	4
37		Ernest George Exell	Watford	♦ 0/19		0/44			◊ 0/30					4
38		Rodney E James	Banstead	♦ 0/1		0/22			◊ ½/19		◊ 0/20	♦ 0/25		4
39		Per Møller	Copenhagen	◊ 1/27	♦ 0/16	◊ ½/23	♦ 1/30	1/31	♦ 0/8	◊ ½/10	♦ 0/21	◊ 0/19	♦ 0/14	4
40		Charles L Tadiello	Bracknell	◊ 0/4	♦ 1/27	◊ ½/13	♦ 0/31	0/29	◊ 1/48					4
41		Alfred Eva	Cheshire		♦ 0/4			◊ ½/36	♦ ½/35	◊ 0/11	♦ 0/15			3½
42		George William Henlen	Ashtead	◊ 0/35	♦ ½/15	◊ 0/14			♦ 0/33			0/36		3½
43		John H Manners	Sutton	♦ ½/12	◊ 0/17	0/30		1/45	◊ /34					3½
44		Manfred Reuser	London	0/31	♦ 0/18	1/37	◊ 0/19		♦ ?/26	◊ ½/36	♦ 0/27			3½
45		Arthur T Watson	Worthing			♦ 0/25		0/43	♦ ?/47					3
46		Kenneth O Ballard	Reading	♦ 0/3					◊ 0/27					2½
47		John Crittenden Thompson	Beckenham	♦ ½/17	◊ 0/12		♦ 0/24		◊ ?/45					2½
48		(Edward) Douglas Fawcett3	London	◊ 0/16		◊ 0/15			♦ 0/40					1

Only partial crosstables given in both BCM (June 1958, p158) and CHESS (April 1958, p202), as a result of which it has not been possible to present a complete record of results for players finishing on 5 points or less. Newspaper reports have enabled me to find some more results but were not comprehensive.
¹ There is an error in the crosstable in BCM (June 1958, p158): it gives HG Rhodes a white win vs no.23 in round 1 and then a black win vs no.23 in round 2. Other sources show that the rd 2 score details are correct so it is rd 1 which is at fault. We can deduce, from the table in CHESS (April 1956, Vol.23 no.313-4, p202) that his unknown opponent in rd 1 must have been a player who scored fewer than 5 points. EDIT: Ulrich Tamm has evidence to suggest his opponent was SC Love.
² Jack Dennis Rosse changed his name from Jacob Rosselson in 1949. He was a violinist, born 1900 in Lithuania, died 1989.
³ (Edward) Douglas Fawcett (April 1866 - 14 April 1960) would have celebrated his 92nd birthday around the time of this tournament. His last tournament was 1959/60 Hastings Premier Reserves F. Biography by Bob Jones.

Results shown on the CHESS crosstable (or in newspaper reports) where we do not have colours or round numbers: Mazitis 1-0 Tanfield, Tanfield 1-0 Sunnucks, Matchett 1-0 Mazitis, Mazitis ½-½ D.Lloyd

Round 7, 16 April 1958: Peter Clarke vs Dragutin Dimc, position after 11...Nd7. The 25-year-old Croatian player sadly died just three months after this photo was taken, after a bathing accident in the river Sava during a chess tournament in which he was taking part.

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1958 Bognor Ten-Day Championship Reserves

1958 Bognor Championship Reserves		Resid.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total
1	Alan Edgar Nield	St Leonards	&;	½	1	1	½	1	1	1	½	1	7½
2	Dr (Jakob) Adolf Seitz	Germany	½	&;	½	1	1	½	1	1	1	1	7½
3	Roger J Stockwell	London	0	½	&;	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	7½
4	Peter D Briley	Bristol	0	0	0	&;	1	½	1	1	1	1	5½
5	Peter M Shaw	London	½	0	0	0	&;	1	1	1	1	1	5½
6	Ian Christopher Smart	Leatherhead	0	½	0	½	0	&;	0	1	1	1	4
7	Oscar William Serck	Knighton	0	0	0	0	0	1	&;	0	1	1	3
8	H Hoey	Hereford	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	&;	0	1	2
9	Gregory Owen J Melitus	London	½	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	&;	½	2
10	William John Clare Hart Burges	Blockley	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	½	&;	½

1958 Bognor Ten-Day Major

1958 Bognor Major		Resid.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total
1	George L Sutton	Sutton	&;	1	½	½	1	1	1	1	1	1	8
2	Norman W Dunk	Brighton	0	&;	1	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	7
3	George Arthur Peck	Rugby	½	0	&;	1	1	0	½	1	1	1	6
4	W H Mabbs	Orpington	½	1	0	&;	0	½	1	0	1	1	5
5	(Rex) Frank Talbot Wood	Sutton Coldfield	0	0	0	1	&;	1	1	1	0	1	5
6	Frederick W Appleby	Bognor Regis	0	0	1	½	0	&;	0	½	½	1	3½
7	Maj. Charles Dennis Balding	Worthing	0	0	½	0	0	1	&;	0	1	1	3½
8	Anthony G Frish	Staines	0	0	0	1	0	½	1	&;	1	0	3½
9	G Booth	Westcliff	0	0	0	0	1	½	0	0	&;	½	2
10	Richard Edward Boxall	Streatham	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	½	&;	1½

1958 SCCU (Southern Counties Chess Union) Championships

1958 SCCU Boys’ Under-18 Championship.—(1) John F Wheeler (Plymouth) 6/7; (2) Keith M Oliff (Basildon) 5½; (3) M Norman (Cambridge) 4½.

1958 SCCU Girls’ Under 18 Championship (3 entries, double-round).—(1) Verina Horsnell (Woolwich) 3/4; (2-3) Yvonne Guthrie (Bexley Heath), F M Lunn (Bicester) 1½.

1958 SCCU Junior Under-15 Boys’ Championship (Swiss System, 7 rounds, 30 entries).—(1) P O'Brien (Dagenham) 6/7; (2-3) Malcolm J Lester (Streatham), G H Mason (Westgate) 5½; (4-6) Hugh Dowsett (Ipswich), Andrew J Whiteley (Oxford), E. Wilmers (Oxford) 5.

SCCU Junior Girls’ Under-15 Championship (7 rounds Swiss, 10 entries).—(1) Carolyn A Quilter (Southampton) 6/7; (2) Marianne Allwright (Finchley) 6 (lost play-off); (3-4) L Biggs (West Dulwich), V Parsons (Southampton) 5.

OTHER EVENTS

Seven-day Major.—(Morning) (1) P H White (Kettering) 5/7; (2-3) H W S Nicholas (East Sheen), J Worrell (Reading) 4½. (Afternoon) (1) M R Partis (Brighton) 6/7; (2) Wilfred Evans (Bucks) 5; (3) Joseph J Lauder (Wimbledon) 4½.

Seven-day First Class.—(Morning) (1) Alfred Milner (Manchester) 5½/7; (2-3) J Hart (Mortlake), John D Wincer (Shenstone) 5. (Afternoon) (1) J M Croucher 6/7; 2 Anthony Hocking (Worthing) 5½; (3-4) H Clay (Reading), Miss Cicely Grace Snead (Wallington) 5.

Seven-day Second Class.—(Morning) (1-2) Brian Ernest Blandford (Bristol), Robert H Mellor (Stockport) 6½/7); (3) Harry Starbuck Littlechild (Wisbech) 4½. (Afternoon) (1-2) Philip R C Wood (Sutton Coldfield) 6/7; (3) J M Garton (Staines) 5.

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Five-day Major.—(Morning) (1-3) Raymond Bott (Streatham), Roy Thomas Buckland (Shoreham), Wilfred H Pratten (Fareham) 4/5. (Other players included Percival Arthur Cooke) (Afternoon) (1) Michael E Ventham (Farnborough) 5/5; (2) D A Sanders (Guildford) 3½

Five-day First Class.—(Morning) (1) K S Schofield (Kenton) 5/5; (2) F C Shorter (London) 3. (Afternoon) (1) Christopher Baruch Wood (Sutton Coldfield) 5/5; (2) R E Hopkins (London) 3.

Five-day Second Class.—(Morning) (1) G Gardner (Fareham) 4½/5; (2-3) Miss N F Harris (Surbiton), R E A Jackson (Southampton) 3½. (Afternoon) (1) W N Andrews (Ashtead) 5/5; (2) Philip R C Wood (Sutton Coldfield) 4.

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Weekend Open.—(1) John Kenneth Footner (Birmingham) 4/5; (2) Leslie E Vine (Eastleigh) 3½.

Weekend Major.—(1) Leopold Winter (Brighton) 5; (2) Edward David Ovenden (Shoreham) 4.

Weekend Major Reserves.—(1) Sydney Harold Cuzco Lucas (Bournemouth) 4½; (2-3) Gordon Othon Esher (London), G L Pond (London) 3.

Weekend Minor A.— (1) Leonard Shenfield (London) 5/5; (2) R I Ross (Portsmouth) 3.

Weekend Minor B.— (1) Archibald C D Bushell (Chichester) 4/5; (2) L A Humphries (Bognor Regis) 3½.

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BCM, June 1958, p154

Bognor Regis Congress

April 9th to 19th, 1958

By R. G. Wade

Mr. Norman Fishlock-Lomax is not complacent. More and better is what he asks of the Bognor Regis annual congress. Two hundred and seventeen competitors found their way into this year's serious programme and many more participated in the even more sociable evenings and skittles.

One social trend is the increase in the number of children, primary school as well as teenagers. With a number of mums learning, congresses are now for the whole family and that knife-like atmosphere of a British championship congress is absent. Another useful trend is the inclusion of six-player, five-round week-end tourneys catering for the many who do not wish to take days of leave in April. (Even three-round, four-player sections as in Holland are feasible.) The time may come when week-enders will outnumber the accepted congress-goers.

Though the community life of previous congresses at Southdean (outside Bognor) was absent, the change of venue to the Rex Ballroom in the town itself was readily accepted.

The Stevenson Memorial Tournament, at last with a full contingent of forty-eight entries, showed some British successes in that Clarke and I held our own with the seasonal invaders and a number of younger players like Guy and Springgay, of Brighton; Samuels, Reuben, M. R. B. Clarke, from the London area; and Hindle, of Norwich, showed fight. Rhodes and Mackay did themselves credit. Milner-Barry, Wallis, and Andersen were patchy. Miss Tranmer played better than almost ever, while Miss Sunnucks came back after a depressing start. Ivkov played well within himself, showing almost no sign of effort. Karaklaic was more determined than in 1955. Dimc was most energetic, but Toran had some astonishing lapses of concentration. Barden was unusually tensed and, as is then likely, cracked.

Round 1 had two points that stick in my mind. Toran, recently Champion of Spain, intending to sacrifice the exchange against Springgay, found that instead a whole Rook had gone... The second was Karaklaic’s finishagainst the Surrey junior M. R. B. Clarke...

The day of Round 2 was bright for Surrey. Tredinnick drew with this year’s Danish Champion, Andersen, while Mackay dusted Andersen’s compatriot, Moller, and Barden drew with Ivkov. I had to toil to hold Karaklaic in an ending most British masters would not have contested.

Guy, the Brighton champion, moved into the limelight in Round 3, making Ivkov come out of his shell. Barden, following Spassky-Bronstein, Candidates’ Tourney, Amsterdam, 1956, sacrificed his Queen for two minor pieces and beat Andersen. [the rest of the report is almost exclusively chess analysis - JS]

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CHESS, April 1958, Vol.23 no.313-4, p201

BOGNOR REGIS BREAKS RECORDS

Moving from near-by Middleton into Bognor Regis itself, Norman Lomax’s congress must have attracted nearly 250 entries (we lost track of the figure, as new sections were being formed “while you wait”!). The group life of Southdean was little missed, new and unsuspected attractions being found in Bognor itself.

... p239...

BOGNOR REGIS

A new theme

Sir Clarence Sadd, opening the congress again, worked on a rather unexpected vein—chess players' deficiencies and drawbacks of character (their quarrelsomeness, vanity etc.). On this subject he might well have spoken for several hours! But his characteristically polished oration seemed all too brief.

Clarke led for the greater part of the tournament, only to crash in the last round to Karaklaic who thus overtook him, together with Ivkov and Wade.

Strong Punch

Toran and Ivkov had a continuous side-match on the "How hard can you punch?" machine at the fun-fair. Toran gained a 4-1 lead, but his wrist ached so much next day that he could hardly write down his score.

Bognor Regis congress is certainly not going to shrink. "Look at those empty balconies!" exclaimed Norman (Fishlock-) Lomax one day: “Putting the juniors there, we could accommodate three hundred!”.

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File Updated

Date	Notes
30 August 2022	First upload: 16 games, 9 part-games, 9 subsidiary section games, crosstable, reports, results, photo. My thanks to Brian Denman for sending seven of the games.
3 September 2022	Added two more games and one part-game: (1) M.Clarke 0-1 Karaklajic (rd 1 - replaces existing part-game); (2) Milner-Barry 1-0 Tranmer (Rd 2, part-game); (3) Ivkov 1-0 P.Clarke (rd 10). My thanks to Ulrich Tamm for this contribution. Ulrich also helped solve the riddle of P Moller/Moeller/Møller: an article in Skakbladet by Borge Andersen refers to him as Per Møller, so that's what I'm going with. Ulrich has also help fill in some of the gaps in the crosstable. Many thanks again, Ulrich.