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Tournament: 6th Hastings Premier 1925/26 Go to: Previous YearNext Year • 28/45 games, 17 stubs/part-games, 6+1 from lower sections
Venue: Hastings Town Hall • Dates: 28 December 1925 - 5 January 1926 • Download PGN

6th Hastings Premier, 28 December 1925 - 5 January 1926, Hastings Town Hall

1925/26 Hastings Premier Nat'y 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10  Total 
1 Alexander Alekhine FRA
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½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
2 Milan Vidmar Sr YUG ½
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1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
3 Reginald Pryce Michell ENG 0 0
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1 1 0 1 1 0 1 5
4 (Jakob) Adolf Seitz SUI 0 0 0
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1 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 5
5 Edgar Colle BEL 0 0 0 0
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0 1 1 1 1 4
6 Fred Dewhirst Yates ENG 0 0 1 0 1
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½ 0 1 ½ 4
7 Dawid Janowski FRA 0 0 0 ½ 0 ½
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½ ½ 1 3
8 George Marshall Norman ENG 0 0 0 0 0 1 ½
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0 1
9 Victor Leonard Wahltuch ENG 0 0 1 0 0 0 ½ 1
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0
10 Edward Guthlac Sergeant ENG 0 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 0 1
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2

1925/26 Hastings Major

1925/26 Hastings Major Nat'y 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10  Total 
1 Alfred Teller Czechoslovakia
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1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 ½
2 Harold John Francis Stephenson Hastings 0
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1 1 1 0 ½ ½ 1 1 6
3 Capt Percivale David Bolland   ½ 0
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0 1 1 1 ½ ½ 1
4 Maurice Edward Goldstein   0 0 1
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0 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 5
5 Victor Buerger   ½ 0 0 1
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0 ½ ½ 1 1
6 Edmund Tom Jesty   0 1 0 ½ 1
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0 1 1 0
7 Norman Boles Holmes   0 ½ 0 0 ½ 1
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0 0 1 3
8 Vera Menchik Hastings 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 1
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0 0 3
9 John Harold Morrison   0 0 ½ 0 0 0 1 1
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½ 3
10 George Frederick Harold Packer   ½ 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 ½
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3

1925/26 Hastings Major Reserves

1925/26 Hastings Major Reserves Nat'y 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10  Total 
1 Richard Edward Lean  
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½ 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 ½ 7
2 Patrick Charles Littlejohn   ½
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½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 7
3 Hans Cohn Breslau 0 ½
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1 0 1 1 1 0 1
4 Wallace Henry King   1 0 0
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1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 0
5 John MacAlister   0 ½ 1 0
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1 0 1 1 0
6 Edith Charlotte Price   0 0 0 ½ 0
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½ 1 1 1 4
7 Alfred Dudley Barlow   0 0 0 ½ 1 ½
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0 1 ½
8 John James O'Hanlon Ireland 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
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1 1 3
9 Sydney Gerard Howell-Smith   0 ½ 1 ½ 0 0 0 0
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1 3
10 Philip Ashby Ursell   ½ 0 0 1 1 0 ½ 0 0
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3

1925/26 Hastings First Class A

1925/26 Hastings First Class A Nat'y 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10  Total 
1 Capt Arthur Edward Dickinson  
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1 ½ 1 1 1 0 ½ 1 1 7
2 Edward Buddel Puckridge   0
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½ 1 0 1 1 1 ½ 1 6
3 Henry Wickham Hore   ½ ½
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½ ½ 0 1 1 1 ½
4 Miss Minnie Musgrave   0 0 ½
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1 0 ½ 1 1 1 5
5 Sydney Meymott   0 1 ½ 0
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0 0 1 1 1
6 J H Wise   0 0 1 1 1
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1 0 0 ½
7 Stephen Poulson Lees   1 0 0 ½ 1 0
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½ ½ ½ 4
8 Frederick Wilkinson   ½ 0 0 0 0 1 ½
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1 1 4
9 George W Powell   0 ½ 0 0 0 1 ½ 0
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1 3
10 Hon Frederick Gustavus Hamilton-Russell   0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 0 0
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1925/26 Hastings First Class B

1925/26 Hastings First Class B Nat'y 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10  Total 
1 Isidore Haym Wechsler  
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½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 1
2 W Arthur Winser   ½
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1 ½ 1 1 1 1 ½ 1
3 Leonard Illingworth   ½ 0
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1 1 1 1 1 1 ½ 7
4 Raymond Hampden Blomfield   0 ½ 0
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½ ½ 1 1 1 1
5 Geoffrey Kendall Nuttall   0 0 0 ½
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1 ½ 1 1 1 5
6 Mrs Edith Mary Ann Michell (née Tapsell)   0 0 0 ½ 0
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1 1 1 1
7 Prof Robert William Genese   ½ 0 0 0 ½ 0
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0 1 1 3
8 Major Edgar Montague-Jones   0 0 0 0 0 0 1
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1 0 2
9 Gerard Cardew Bryan Gipps   0 ½ 0 0 0 0 0 0
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1
10 Willington Lucette Wakefield   0 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 1 0
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1925/26 Hastings First Class Reserves

1925/26 Hastings First Class Reserves Nat'y 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10  Total 
1 Charles Henry Taylor  
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0 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 6
2 William Gordon Watson   1
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0 ½ 0 ½ 1 1 1 1 6
3 Miss Emily Eliza Abraham   0 1
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0 ½ 0 1 1 1 1
4 E Atkinson   0 ½ 1
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½ 0 0 1 1 1 5
5 Mrs Amabel Nevill Gwyn Sollas (née Jeffreys)   1 1 ½ ½
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½ 0 0 1 ½ 5
6 F A Riley   0 ½ 1 1 ½
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0 0 ½ ½ 4
7 Samuel Frederick Dalladay   0 0 0 1 1 1
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1 0 0 4
8 Henry Stanley Shelton   0 0 0 0 1 1 0
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1 1 4
9 W Stevens   1 0 0 0 0 ½ 1 0
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½ 3
10 Alfred Herman Reeve   0 0 0 0 ½ ½ 1 0 ½
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Second Class A: (1) Albert Henry Hart 8½/9; (2) Edward Henry Church 7; (3) C W Stokes 6; (4-5) Hon. Arthur James Beresford Lowther, (Philip) Leslie Jones 5; (6-7) Miss Bedell, Allan Ferguson Kidney 4½; (8) John E Coleman 2½; (9) Rev. W. Harvey 2; (10) Rev. H P Dawson retired.

Second Class B: (1-2) H. H. Elliott, Alfred Mortlock 7½/9; (3-4) W Barker, Miss Home 6½; (5-6) Capt. Hubert George McMullon, Z Rosenthal 4; (7) T Moore 3½; (8) Walter Ernest Leffler 3; (9) Mrs. Chase 2; (10) J W Thurnham ½.

Third Class A: (1) H J Salter 7; (2-3) Arthur John Adrian Goetzee, Keith Reginald Bruce Macleod 6½; (4) Simeon Deitz 6; (5-6) Miss Olga Menchik, L J Seh 5; (7) W Harvey 4½; (8) Claude Norman Popper 2½; (9) A E Gray 2; (10) J. H. Johnson 0.

Third Class B: (1) B N Collins 7½; (2-3) Allan James Kidney, L G. Norman 5½; (4-5) Ernst Hermann Albert Behrndt, Miss Ida French Lucas 5; (6) S[tanley] Hanson-Powter 4½; (7) George Shoesmith 4; (8-9) Mrs. Ayris, W P Freeman 3; (10) H W Weston 2.

"The experiment of extending the duration of the congress to eight playing days was very favourably commented upon by the competitors, who felt that in a 9-round tournament they had a much better chance of recovery after an indifferent start than in a 7-round tournament." (BCM, March 1926, p 139)


File Updated

Date Notes
2018 Originally part of the bulk Hastings download, then hived off into a separate file, circa 2018
2 March 2022 Added crosstables, results. Also added two games from subsidiary sections: (1) V.Buerger ½-½ A.Teller (Rd 6, Major); (2) R.Lean 1-0 J.O'Hanlon (Rd 7, Major Reserves).
2 June 2022 The complete game score of R.Michell 1-0 E.Colle (Premier, rd 2) now available, from the Belgian Chess History website.
7 February 2023 Added the game H.Cohn 1-0 W.H.King (Major Reserves, rd 6). Many thanks to Ulrich Tamm.
12 February 2023 Added the game V.Menchik 0-1 A.Teller (rd 8, Major). Many thanks to Brian Denman.
12 February 2023 Added two more games and a stub, all from the Major competition: (1) M.Goldstein 0-1 A.Teller (rd 1); (2) G.Packer ½-½ A.Teller (rd 2, stub); (3) A.Teller 1-0 E.Jesty (rd 5). Many thanks to Ulrich Tamm.
13 February 2023 Andy Ansel has identified move order discrepancies to the following games: (1) Colle 0-1 Alekhine (Premier rd 3); (2) Vidmar-Yates (Premier rd 5); (3) Alekhine-Yates (Premier rd 6). Whilst fixing these, I identified another one: (4) Alekhine-Seitz (Premier rd 5).