1960 Coventry Premier, 4-7 June

1960 Coventry Premier		Residence	1	2	3	4	5	6	Total
1	John Eric Littlewood	Skegness	&;	1	1	1	1	1	5
2	Philip Norman Wallis	Atherstone	0	&;	1	½	1	1	3½
3	Baruch Harold Wood	Sutton Coldfield	0	0	&;	1	1	1	3
4	Bernard Cafferty	Birmingham	0	½	0	&;	½	1	2
5	C Powell	Coventry	0	0	0	½	&;	½	1
6	Bernard Landon Wilkinson	Manchester	0	0	0	0	½	&;	½

Junior Premier: (1-2) N. Crabtree (Coventry), Christopher Baruch Wood (Sutton Coldfield) 3½/5; (3) S. Rowe (Stoke on Trent) 2½; (4-5) A. J. Coley (West Bromwich), R. Hazlewood (Coventry) 2; (6) G. J. Gee Stoke on Trent 1½.

Premier Reserves A: (1-2) John Anthony Sutton (Stafford), Michael A Stevenson (Tettenhall) 4/5; (3) C. Burton (Birmingham) 3; (4-5) J. Dean (Coventry), T. Lee (Kenilworth) 1½; (6) G. Hill (Birmingham) 1.

Premier Reserves B: (1) E. V. Wileman (Tamworth) 4½/5; (2) T. Kadikis (Coventry) 4; (3) G. Kaye (Coventry) 3; (4) David W Anderton (Wolverhampton) 2½; (5) R. B. H. Butters (Stafford) 1; (6) G. H. Dale (Birmingham) 0.

Major Open: (1-5) R. J. Johnson, G. Wood, A. Crilly (all Coventry), J. Morfitt (Rugby), T. Palmer (Leicester) all 3/5; D. C. Cross (Birmingham) 0. A quaint result!

First Class Tournament: (1-2) F. M. Montes and V. Colts (Coventry).

Junior Tournament: (1) J. Pollock; (2) W. Phillips; (3) B. J. Philp (all Coventry).

Junior Open: (1) J. Ambler (Coventry); (2) A. Rollason (Coventry); (3) D. Bamford (Kenilworth).

Coventry’s second Whitsun Congress drew an entry of fifty; seven sections of six and one of eight. D. G. Horseman controlled; G. N. Reason was again the leading organiser. If drastic plans for switching Coventry’s holiday periods go through, the city may not have a Whitsun at all next year.

Source of results: CHESS, Vol.25, no.365-6, July 1960, p278.

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File Updated

Date	Notes
14 January 2023	First upload, with 7 games. Features all of John Littlewood's five wins, with his own notes. These were collected by the late Keith Brown and passed to me some time ago by Phil Adams, for which many thanks. The dates of rounds may not be 100% accurate; the only hard facts are that the tournament spanned the Whitsun weekend, from Saturday 4th to Tuesday 7th June.