1962/63 Hastings Premier, 27 December 1962 - 5 January 1963, Sun Lounge, Hastings Pier

1962/63 Hastings Premier		Residence	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total
1	Svetozar Gligoric	Yugoslavia	&;	½	0	½	1	½	1	1	1	1	6½
2	Alexander Kotov	USSR	½	&;	½	½	1	1	½	½	1	1	6½
3	Vassily Smyslov	USSR	1	½	&;	½	½	½	1	½	½	1	6
4	Drazen Marovic	Yugoslavia	½	½	½	&;	½	½	1	1	½	½	5½
5	John E Littlewood	Skegness	0	0	½	½	&;	1	0	1	1	1	5
6	Hiong Liong Tan	INA/NED	½	0	½	½	0	&;	1	½	0	1	4
7	C Hugh O'D Alexander	Cheltenham	0	½	0	0	1	0	&;	½	½	1	3½
8	Peter H Clarke	Woodford Green	0	½	½	0	0	½	½	&;	½	½	3
9	Frits Van Seters	Belgium	0	0	½	½	0	1	½	½	&;	0	3
10	Adrian Swayne Hollis	Oxford	0	0	0	½	0	0	0	½	1	&;	2

CHESS/28/424-425 January 1963, p99

HASTINGS

The 38th Hastings congress drew 189 competitors. Sir Arthur Bliss, Master of the Queen’s Music, opening the event, apologised for letting the white queen fall in love with the black knight in his ballet "Checkmate”. He told how, on a conducting tour of the U.S.S.R., he could not gain the confidence of one Russian orchestra until he challenged their best player to a game of chess. After that, all went smoothly. He made the ceremonial first move, P–K4, for Vassily Smyslov, ex-World Champion, who substituted at the last moment for Boris Spassky who was tired (someone told us) after the U.S.S.R. Championship and wished to be fully fit for the forthcoming Mar del Plata tournament.

As the year before, Hastings suffered from a spell of exceptionally bad weather—though once you are in Hastings, you are better off than almost anywhere else.

Gligoric has been invited back for next year, and has accepted.

Alexander said he would be willing to play in the Challengers’.

Van Seters, the Belgian Champion, was playing in Hastings after an absence of 23 years. The young Yugoslav D. Baretic,
blinded and maimed when running messages for the Partisans as a boy, again drew crowds. He almost invariably arrives late, plays at lightning speed and attacks from the word “go”. Only impetuosity robbed him of a place in next year’s Premier. Of the three who tied first in the Challengers’ Tournament with the unusually low score of 5½, B. Brinck-Claussen Denmark wins the place in next year’s Premier by virtue of a superior Sonneborn-Berger score. A. R. B. Thomas was celebrating his fortieth year at Hastings. B. H. Wood was invited only five days before the start of play.

K. G. Dahl had beaten Ove Kinnmark in the final of a contest organised by the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation for a free place with expenses paid in the Challengers’ tournament of what they called Hastings’s “legendary” congress. Kinnmark came, all the same (paying his own expenses?). A curious twirk of fate saw Dahl finish bottom of the Challengers’; Kinnmark, admitted to the Reserves, finished first, so received a prize—and gains a place in next year’s Challengers! Popular Heinrich Juehe, surely the most genial of the Seven Dwarfs, also qualified by winning the other Reserves’ section.

The Daily Express gave one mention to the congress, reporting that A. T. Watson in making a move, split his trousers.

1962/63 Hastings Challengers

1962/63 Hastings Challengers		Residence	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total
1	Bjorn Brinck Claussen	Denmark	&;	½	1	1	1	0	0	½	1	½	5½
2	Andrew Rowland B Thomas	Tiverton	½	&;	½	½	½	0	1	1	1	½	5½
3	Baruch Harold Wood	Sutton Coldfield	0	½	&;	1	½	1	1	½	0	1	5½
4	Dragoljub Baretic	Yugoslavia	0	½	0	&;	1	1	½	1	0	1	5
5	Bernard Cafferty	Birmingham	0	½	½	0	&;	1	½	1	½	1	5
6	Owen Mark Hindle	Sutton Coldfield	1	1	0	0	0	&;	½	½	1	0	4
7	Werner Nicolai	W.Germany	1	0	0	½	½	½	&;	0	1	½	4
8	Philip Stuart Milner-Barry	London	½	0	½	0	0	½	1	&;	1	½	4
9	Svend Hamann	Denmark	0	0	1	1	½	0	0	0	&;	1	3½
10	Karl Gustav Dahl	Sweden	½	½	0	0	0	1	½	½	0	&;	3

1962/63 Hastings Challengers Reserves (Rider Section)

1962/63 Hastings Challengers Reserves		Residence	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total
1	Ove Kinnmark	Sweden	&;	1	½	1	0	1	1	1	1	1	7½
2	David Graham Wells	Bristol	0	&;	1	½	1	0	1	1	1	1	6½
3	Henk van Donk	Netherlands	½	0	&;	1	1	½	½	½	1	1	6
4	Peter N Lee	London SW3	0	½	0	&;	1	1	½	½	1	1	5½
5	Michael A Stevenson	Wolverhampton	1	0	0	0	&;	1	½	½	1	½	4½
6	David Edward Lloyd	London N19	0	1	½	0	0	&;	½	1	0	1	4
7	Harry Gethin Thorp Matchett	Bexhill	0	0	½	½	½	½	&;	½	0	1	3½
8	John William Naylor	Essex	0	0	½	½	½	0	½	&;	1	½	3½
9	Otto H Hardy	Loughborough	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	&;	0	2
10	John Riddell	Belgium	0	0	0	0	½	0	0	½	1	&;	2

1962/63 Hastings Challengers Reserves (Pelton Section)

1962/63 Hastings Challengers Reserves		Residence	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total
1	Heinrich Jühe	W.Germany	&;	0	½	1	½	1	1	1	1	1	7
2	(Derek) George Ellison	Bolton	1	&;	½	0	½	½	½	1	1	½	5½
3	James Joseph Walsh	Dublin	½	½	&;	½	0	1	½	½	1	1	5½
4	John Dudley Taylor	Sheffield	0	1	½	&;	½	0	1	½	1	1	5½
5	David J Mabbs	Harrow	½	½	1	½	&;	1	0	½	½	½	5
6	Wolfgang Gergs	Hamburg	0	½	0	1	0	&;	½	1	½	1	4½
7	Dr. Werner Alles	W.Germany	0	½	½	0	1	½	&;	½	0	½	3½
8	Dr. Reinhard Cherubim	W.Germany	0	0	½	½	½	0	½	&;	½	½	3
9	Philip J Meade	Cheltenham	0	0	0	0	½	½	1	½	&;	½	3
10	Corry (Maria Cornelia) Vreeken	Netherlands	0	½	0	0	½	0	½	½	½	&;	2½

Other Sections

Main A: (1) Tomislav Pervan (Yugoslavia) 6½/9; (2-3) G G Boon (Netherlands), Alfred Dempster H Whyte (St. Leonards) 5; (4) Percy Baldwin Cook (London SW15) 4½; (5) Piet Vreeken (Netherlands) 4; (6-7) David W Anderton (Wolverhampton), Lawrence Alfred J Glyde (Ilford) 3; (8-9) Wilfred Evans (Rickmansworth), James R Nicolson (Manchester) 2½.

Main B: (1) Barry Noel Green (Oxford) 6½/9; (2) Andrew J Whiteley (Oxford) 6; (3) Victor W Knox (Moreton) 5½; (4-5) L Abramsson (Sweden), Robert Hans Pinner (Richmond) 5; (6-7) Alan Edgar Nield (St. Leonards, NZL), John M Ripley (Liverpool) 4½; (8) Joseph M Soesan (London W1) 4; (9) A Philip Primett (Haywards Heath) 2½; (10) Robin A E Shaw (Grays) 1½.

Main C: (1) Charles Ambrose Scott Damant (Hastings) 6/8; (2) Geoffrey Alan Hollis Hastings 5½; (3) John Anthony Sutton (Stafford) 5; (4) J Gordon Lloyd (Ramsgate) 4½; (5-6) Michael P Cook (Suffolk), Michael Goll (Spilsby) 3½; (7-8) Peter Charles Griffiths (Birmingham), Alfred Milner (Didsbury) 3; (9) Robin George Bellinger (London SW3) 2.

Main D: (1) Roger Leslie Paige (Portsmouth) 8/9; (2-3) Percival Arthur Cooke (East Grinstead), Dr. D A Toms (London N12) 5½; (4) Richard St George Upton (Hastings) 5; (5-7) Christopher W Johns (Bedford), J Murrell (Tunbridge Wells), Harold Horace Watts (Southport) 4½; (8) W Brust (W.Germany) 4; (9) B Hedberg (Sweden) 2½; (10) Gordon Othon Esher (Hythe) 1/5 (withdrew).

Main E: (1) Anthony James Booth (Manchester) 7/9; (2) John N Kemp (Rochester) 6; (3-7) William Leonard Brierley (Beckenham), A Buckle (Hastings), Thomas Eagle Lovell Chataway (Stourbridge), Dr. Francis Henry Charles Marriott (Nuneham Courtney), Arthur T Watson (Worthing) 4½; (8) James Heneage McKenzie Finch (Canterbury) 4; (9) Rev. Henry Middleton Blackett (Hastings) 3; (10) Ernest George Exell (St. Albans) 2½.

Main F: (1) P Smith (Hampton Hill) 7½/9; (2) Albrecht Wachweger (W.Germany) 7; (3-4) William Bainbridge (Wilmslow), J H O'Neil (Nottingham) 6; (5) Bernard Gladstone Henstock (London W14) 5½; (6) Brian A M Piggott (Farnhorough) 4½; (7) A E Coates (Farnham) 4; (8) Ralph Charles Hopton (Chalfont St. Giles) 2½; (9) Edmond Julien T Leyns (Gt. Hallingbury) 1; (10) Nicholas C Pyper (Bexhill) 1/6 (withdrew).

Main G: (1) Ralph T Berry (Coventry) 5½/7; (2) Terence Audley K Thomson (Burton-on-Trent) 5; (3) Geoffrey George Homan (Rochester) 4½; (4) J D Williams (Stourbridge) 3½; (5-6) Rev. R A Pugh (Hastings), Miss Olive Richards (Harrow) 3; (7) M Saphir (London N6) 2½; (8) T Carruthers (London W12) 1. (William Edward Busbridge and G F Johnson withdrew before playing half their games and their scores were cancelled.)

Main Afternoon A: (1) Lewis Johnstone Mills (Haslemere) 7½/8; (2) Major Eric Howard Flear (Hastings) 6; (3) Philip Lawrence Roe (Cambridge) 5½; (4) J Kossel (Hamburg) 4½; (5) Theo-Heinz Gollasch (Hamburg) 4; (6) Frank Arthur Rhoden (Hastings) 3½; (7) Mrs. Margaret Eileen Elizabeth (Peggy) Clarke (Woodford Green) 2; (8-9) John A Felton (Hastings), Herbert Francis Gook (S.Croydon) 1½. (Willington Lucette Wakefield retired after two rounds—scores cancelled.)

Main Afternoon B: (1-2) Peter R Hindley (Esher), Jack A Speigel (Southend) 7½/9; (3) Ronald Ernest Rushbrook (London W3) 7; (4) G F Morrish 4½; (5-6) P Griffiths, Patric Kirtlan 4; (7) John Myles Gorton 3; (8-10) John C Hamer, George Arthur Peck, Richard Charles Winter 2½.

Open A: (1) T W Baxter (London) 7½/9; (2-3) R J A Cox (Chelsea), G Knights (Cambridge) 6; (4) C W Bryan 5½; (5) A K Henderson 5; (6-7) Gregory Owen J Melitus, Mrs. (Jean) Lesley Mary Pinner (née Fletcher) 4; (8-9) E Chambers, H Cohen 2½; (10) Douglas Betts 2.

Open B: (1-2) J Hyde (Ashford), E Peck (Hastings) 7½/9; (3) J Herring (Oundle) 7; (4) D J Robinson 6; (5) Terence Ian Maylam 4½; (6) Lady Gwendolyn Harriet Herbert 3½; (7-8) J H Brown, Miss M Wainwright 3; (10) Mrs. Laura Ethel Amelia Start 2.

Open Afternoon: (1) Philip Stuart Kitcher (Horsham) 8½/9; (2) C Barnes (Hastings) 7; (3-4) Claud Vernal Warter Lucas (Hastings), William Wyndham Tatum (Brighton) 6; (5-6) F C Shorter, H G White 5; (7) Miss E Whyte 3½; (8) G Burnett 3; (9) Miss Elsie Grace Coulson 1; (10) F A Bristow 1.

New Year Special A: (1) Keith M Oliff (Basildon) 4½/5; (2) (Frederick) Michael Akeroyd (Whitby) 3½; (3) Robert P Ross 3; (4) Roger L Baker 2½; (5) B van der Woude 1; (6) Eric Wilfred Knapp ½.

New Year Special B: (1) A E Harris (Hastings) 3½/5; (2) Christopher I Moffat (Kingston-upon-Thames) 3; (3) B Glass 2½; (4-6) M J McCabe, Miss Annie Hilda Gammans, Reginald John Manfield 2.

New Year Special C: (1) R A Hubbard (Bishop’s Stortford) 4½/5; (2) H Marner (Brighton) 4; (3) R Littler 3½; (4) P Soper 2; (5) J B Ansermoz 1; (5) P Clews 0.

New Year Special D: (1-2) Timothy J Gluckman (Bramhall), Victor Norman Rains (Cambridge) 3½/5; (3) Nigel W Dennis 3; (4) J Bate 2½; (5) C J Wood 1½; (6) W T Borlase 1.

New Year Special E: (1) H W Kennett (Sheerness) 4/5; (2-3) Paul F Habershon (Bath), Miss Eileen Betsy Tranmer (London W3) 3½; (4) J Kilner 3; (5) Dr. Frederick Bromley Akeroyd 1; (6) D P Bartlett 0.

New Year Special Afternoon: (1) D Brydon (Tadley) 3½/4; (2-3) Michael Kevin Beglin (Brighton), Richard Edward Boxall (London SW16) 2½; (4) G Maskell 1; (5) Sydney Gothard ½. (C Connett retired after one round—score cancelled.)

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File Updated

Date	Notes
(some years ago)	45 out of 45 Premier games previously uploaded as part of a collection of Hastings games.
6 February 2023	45 Premier games, now with dates and some annotations, 45 Challengers games, plus 5 games from lower sections. Also crosstables and photos. My thanks to Andy Ansel and Ulrich Tamm in help with collecting the games.
16 December 2023	A minor adjustment made to the score of P.Milner-Barry 0-1 A.Thomas (Challengers, rd 9).
10 January 2024	Added the game A.Whiteley 0-1 V.Knox (Main B).