1971 Robert Silk Fellowship, Paignton, 5-11 September

1971 Robert Silk Fellowship		Fed	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Total
1	William R Hartston	ENG	&;	1	½	½	½	½	½	1	4½
2	Robert Bellin	ENG	0	&;	½	½	½	1	1	1	4½
3	Peter R Markland	ENG	½	½	&;	½	½	0	1	½	3½
4	Peter H Clarke	ENG	½	½	½	&;	½	½	½	½	3½
5	George S Botterill	WLS	½	½	½	½	&;	½	0	½	3
6	Simon Webb	ENG	½	0	1	½	½	&;	½	0	3
7	Martyn J Corden	ENG	½	0	0	½	1	½	&;	½	3
8	Michael F Stean	ENG	0	0	½	½	½	1	½	&;	3

1971 Paignton Premier, Paignton, 5-11 September

1971 Paignton Premier		Residence	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Total
1	Jonathan I Century	London	♦ 1/15	♦ 0/2	◊ ½/11	♦ 1/18	◊ 1/13	◊ 1/3	♦ 1/?	5½
2	(Arthur) Howard Williams	Wales	♦ 1/28	◊ 1/1	♦ 0/3	◊ 1/17	◊ 1/5	♦ 1/8	½/?	5½
3	Reiner Franke	Germany	◊ 1/11	♦ 1/7	◊ 1/2	♦ ½/5	◊ 1/8	♦ 0/1	◊ ½/6	5
4	Gerald H Bennett	Bournemouth	◊ 1/10	♦ ½/25	◊ ½/20	◊ 0/8	♦ ½/7	♦ 1/21	◊ 1/13	4½
5	Nigel J Holloway	Plymouth	◊ 1/6	♦ ½/20	◊ 1/25	◊ ½/3	♦ 0/2	◊ /10		4½
6	Philip Norman Wallis	Atherstone	♦ 0/5	◊ 1/26	♦ ½/7	◊ ½/27	♦ 1/17	◊ 1/14	♦ ½/3	4½
7	Kevin J Wicker	London	♦ 1/29	◊ 0/3	◊ ½/6	♦ 1/19	◊ ½/4	♦ 1/20	½/?	4½
8	Martin H Hawley	London	◊ ½/12	♦ 1/16	◊ 1/18	♦ 1/4	♦ 0/3	◊ 0/2	½/?	4
9	Peter W Hempson		◊ 0/13	♦ ½/12	♦ /23	◊ 1/26	♦ ½/15	◊ /16		4
10	Philip J Meade	Cheltenham	♦ 0/4	◊ 1/28	◊ ½/19	♦ 1/22	◊ ½/20	♦ /5		4
11	John N Sugden	Beckenham	♦ 0/3	◊ 1/23	♦ ½/1	♦ 0/13	◊ ½/28	◊ 1/22	1/?	4
12	Louis de Veauce	Pirbright	♦ ½/8	◊ ½/9	♦ /17	◊ ½/15	♦ 1/27	◊ ½/19		4
13	Richard A Beach	Stoke-on-Trent	♦ 1/9	◊ 0/18	♦ ½/14	◊ 1/11	♦ 0/1	◊ 1/27	♦ 0/4	3½
14	John Crowle Cock	Cheltenham	◊ ½/27	♦ 1/24	◊ ½/13	♦ ½/20	◊ 1/21	♦ 0/6	0/?	3½
15	Leslie S Blackstock	Kidderminster	◊ 0/1	♦ ½/22	◊ ½/24	♦ ½/12	◊ ½/9	♦ ½/28	◊ ½/21	3
16	John B Goodman	Plymouth	♦ ½/18	◊ 0/8	◊ 0/22	♦ 1/28	◊ ½/24	♦ /9		3
17	Thomas K Hemingway		◊ ½/19	♦ ½/27	◊ /12	♦ 0/2	◊ 0/6	♦ /24		3
18	D(avid J?)James	Cwmbran	◊ ½/16	♦ 1/13	♦ 0/8	◊ 0/1	♦ ½/26	◊ 1/23	0/?	3
19	Michael J Meakin		♦ ½/17	◊ ½/21	♦ ½/10	◊ 0/7	♦ 1/25	♦ ½/12	0/?	3
20	William G Raines	London	♦ 1/23	◊ ½/5	♦ ½/4	◊ ½/14	♦ ½/10	◊ 0/7	0/?	3
21	John B Sellens	Tunbridge Wells	◊ ½/24	♦ ½/19	◊ ½/27	◊ 1/25	♦ 0/14	◊ 0/4	♦ ½/15	3
22	David Sherman		◊ 0/25	◊ ½/15	♦ 1/16	◊ 0/10	♦ ½/23	♦ 0/11	1/?	3
23	E Davis		◊ 0/20	♦ 0/11	◊ /9	♦ ½/24	◊ ½/22	♦ 0/18		2½
24	Arthur Hall	Hastings	♦ ½/21	◊ 0/14	♦ ½/15	◊ ½/23	♦ ½/16	◊ /17		2½
25	Gerald P Hildred	London	♦ 0/22	◊ ½/4	♦ 0/5	♦ 0/21	◊ 0/19	◊ /26		2½
26	Roger G Ambler	London		♦ 0/6	◊ ½/28	♦ 0/9	◊ ½/18	♦ /25		2 / 6
27	Wilfred Henry Pratten	Fareham	♦ ½/14	◊ ½/17	♦ ½/21	♦ ½/6	◊ 0/12	♦ 0/13	0/?	2
28	Paul V Byway	Maidenhead	◊ 0/2	♦ 0/10	♦ ½/26	◊ 0/16	♦ ½/11	◊ ½/15	0/?	1½
29	Vernon Dilworth		◊ 0/7							0 / 1

Crosstable compiled from results given in The Times - no results given for the last round

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1971 Paignton Challengers

(1) Peter Harris (Birmingham) 6/7; (2-8) A C Barton (Southampton), Gerald Homer (West Bromwich), Richard H K Mann (Wareham), Joseph M Soesan (Leatherhead), Maurice J Staples, Jim E Vickery (Hayes), M W Wood 5; (9-11) N Andrews (Birmingham), K M Southern, Geoffrey N Stokes (Sutton Coldfield) 4½; (12-21) J Harry Baines (Wednesbury), T D Crawford (Cardiff), M E Mitev, P D Ralph, Chris C W Shephard (S. Birmingham), Andrew P Sombor (Sutton Coldfield), H Swart, D M Taylor (Olton), Peter Roger Vivian, Roy Alan Wagstaff (London) 4; (22-29) Maj. William Ernest Bruges (Salisbury), Christopher D Carr, Michael Joseph Gilhespy, Timothy D Harding (Oxford), Ian D Hunnable (Woodford Green), Robin J Pearce, J M Tayler (Braunstone), G W Thomas 3½; (30-40) Mrs. Rowena M Bruce (Plymouth), David J Casiot, Leslie Paul Collard (Hereford), Wilfred Evans (Bucks), R A Kendall, Robin F Kneebone, R Liggitt (Paignton), Jack Stanley Midgley (Torquay), Ralph Herbert Thomas Newman (Lynton), W E Sharp, J Walker (Teignmouth) 3; (41-42) Sydney Ross Capsey (Bishop Stortford), *H Eidinger 2½; (43-47) John Frank Chambers, Charles Ambrose Scott Damant, R Evans, John M Gorton (St Leonards), R J Hirons 2; (48) Eric J Leyns 1½; (49) David Pardoe 1; (50) G.D.Pennington 0/5. *Eidinger withdrew after 4 rounds.
(Prizes: £50, £25, £10, £7.50 and £5).

Premier Reserves A: (1) Victor John Anthony Russ (Harrogate) 5½/7; (2) Anthony K Swift 5; (3) Donald Gould (Leicester) 4; (4-5) Peter C Wood, David O Vaughan (Cwmbran) 3½; (6) R Whateley (Birmingham) 3; (7) Brian H Turner 2; (8) F P E Green 1½.

Premier Reserves B: (1) B G Wallis (Leicester) 5/7; (2-3) Godfrey V Brangham (Cwmbran), Rodney E James (Banstead) 4½; (4) John Richard C Cotterell 4; (5) P E Monkhouse 3½; (6) Richard J Dixon 3; (7) Walter R Rayner (Sutton) 2½; (8) T W White 1.

Premier Reserves C: (1) Jack A Speigel (Southend) 5/7; (2-3) Anthony L Hosking, G F Mayna 4½; (4) K Wyld (Tadley) 4; (5) J W Thornley (Chadderton) 3; (6-7) R Daniels (Walsall), L Guard (Plymouth) 2½; (8) Rev. Kenneth Stuart Procter 2.

Premier Reserves D: (1) A Sayers (Sunderland) 6/7; (2) R Talbot (Hadfield) 5½; (3) Graham I Ladds (Grantham) 5; (4) William A Frost 4; (5) M Clarke (Northampton) 2½; (6) N Goldberg 2; (7-8) J A Edwards (Torquay), J Parker 1½.

Premier Reserves E: (1) Kenneth Frederick Sucksmith 5/7; (2) H G Crews 4½; (3) Fridolin Jaeck 4; (4-6) Peter Cloudsdale, R Morgan, D Tout 3½; (7-8) G Fisher, Mrs Sandra Osmond 2. (Prizes, Premier Reserves [each Section]: £8, £4 and £2).

Major A: (1-3) Stephen Robert Boniface, H D Hancock, R W Morris 4½/7; (4-5) J W Fisher, J Meadows 4; (6) J Franks 3½; (7) C Richards 2; (8) E Chambers 1.

Major B: (1) George V Glover (Carlisle) 6/7; (2) M Reynolds (West Bromwich) 5; (3-5) J C Loose (Birmingham), Maurice David Speigel (Southend), R Willey (Stockbridge) 3½; (6) David Gleave (Croydon) 3; (7) William Wyndham Tatum (Brighton) 2½; (8) A Archer (Stoke) 1.

Major C: (1) S P Lucas (Bodmin) 5/7; (2-4) S Gladstone (Birmingham), D J Meadows (Castle Donington), E G Potter (Fareham) 4; (5-6) J C Colquhoun, D T Fairbank (Warley) 3; (7-8) C T Cheetham (Carlisle), William Latey, Q.C. (London) 2½. (Prizes, Major Tournament [each Section]: £6, £3 and £1.50).

First Class: (1) N Brat 5½/7; (2-4) R P Fry (Saltash), G R Garrett, H B Howard 5; (5-7) W G Oliver, T L Scott, M Smyth (Birmingham) 4; (8-12) S Ash, A E Baker, R E Hopkins (London), G Slinger (Cheadle), K Thorp 3½; (13-16) D Irving, *E Jackson, Mrs. P Jackson, A R Willis 3; (17) A Doust (Stoke) 2½; (18-19) Mrs. E Crowe, Miss E Whyte 2; (20) Miss J Amos (London) 1½. *Jackson withdrew after 3 rounds. (Prizes: £5, £3.50, £2, £1.).

Second Class: (1) G L Pritchard 7/7; (2) P Fielder (Wellingborough) 5; (3) P G Partridge (Birmingham) 4½; (4) Sir John Latey 4; (5-6) Lady Gwendolyn Herbert (London), Miss A Livesey 3; (7) Mrs. E James 1; (8) Miss V Nairn ½. (Prizes: £4, £2, £1).

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File Updated

Date	Notes
5 June 2023	First upload. Games have proved very thin on the ground: just 2½ games from the Robert Silk event, four from the Premier and one from a lower section. Can anyone help?