1960/61 Hastings Premier, 28 December 1960 - 6 January 1961, Sun Lounge, Hastings Pier

1960/61 Hastings Premier		Residence	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total
1	Svetozar Gligoric	Yugoslavia	&;	½	½	½	1	½	1	1	1	1	7
2	Igor Bondarevsky	USSR	½	&;	1	½	1	½	½	1	½	½	6
3	Kenneth W Lloyd	Durham Univ	½	0	&;	1	½	½	½	½	1	½	5
4	Laszlo Szabo	Hungary	½	½	0	&;	1	0	½	1	1	½	5
5	Leonard W Barden	London	0	0	½	0	&;	1	½	1	½	1	4½
6	Peter Hugh Clarke	Ilford	½	½	½	1	0	&;	½	½	½	½	4½
7	John Eric Littlewood	Skegness	0	½	½	½	½	½	&;	0	1	1	4½
8	Bogdan Sliwa	Poland	0	0	½	0	0	½	1	&;	1	1	4
9	Arnold Yorwarth Green	London	0	½	0	0	½	½	0	0	&;	1	2½
10	Bernard Cafferty	Blackburn	0	½	½	½	0	½	0	0	0	&;	2

1960/61 Hastings Premier Challengers

1960/61 Hastings Premier Challengers		Residence	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total
1	Leo Gusel/Guzelj	YUG	&;	½	1	1	1	½	1	½	1	½	7
2	Peter Campbell Gibbs	ENG	½	&;	½	0	1	1	1	1	½	1	6½
3	Andrew Rowland B Thomas	ENG	0	½	&;	1	½	½	1	1	1	½	6
4	Wladyslaw Litmanowicz	POL	0	1	0	&;	½	½	½	½	1	1	5
5	John Dudley Taylor	ENG	0	0	½	½	&;	1	1	1	½	½	5
6	Dr. Stefan Fazekas	ENG	½	0	½	½	0	&;	½	0	½	1	3½
7	Marcel Barzin	BEL	0	0	0	½	0	½	&;	1	0	1	3
8	Dr. Reinhard Cherubim	W.GER	½	0	0	½	0	1	0	&;	½	½	3
9	Peter Hohler	SUI	0	½	0	0	½	½	1	½	&;	0	3
10	Ole Scholler Larsen	DEN	½	0	½	0	½	0	0	½	1	&;	3

Premier Reserves A: (1) Adrian S Hollis (Oxford University) 7/9; (2-3) Hans Ek (Sweden), M Knutsson (Denmark) 5½; (4) David E Lloyd (London/Birmingham) 5; (5-6) Günter Abendroth (W.Germany), Dr. Viliam Teodor Buchwald (Manchester) 4½; (7-8) Pank A Hoogendoorn (Dordrecht NED), James Joseph Walsh (Ireland) 4; (9) Percy Baldwin Cook (London) 3; (10) Allert Kerje (Sweden) 2.

Premier Reserves B: (1-2) Heinrich Jühe (W.Germany), David J Mabbs (Harrow) 6/9; (3-4) Harry Gethin Thorp Matchett (Bexhill), Miss Eileen Betsy Tranmer (London) 5; (5-6) James R Nicolson (Manchester), T Slagt jnr (Netherlands) 4½; (7-8) Otto H Hardy (Sheffield), Walter James E Yeeles (Gillingham) 4; (9) Paul R Bielby (Huddersfield) 3½; (10) Miss (Patricia) Anne Sunnucks (London) 2½.

Premier Reserves C: (1) Timothy Martin Wheatcroft (Rochester) 7½/9; (2-4) Harald Keiter (W.Germany), Norman Henry Stewart Lavers (St Albans), A Philip Primett (Haywards Heath) 5; (5) G. Tanfield (London) 4½; (6-9) John A Henley (St Albans), John T Keable (Croydon), David Bruce Pennycuick (Cambridge University), Alfred Dempster Whyte (Hastings) 4; (10) Alan Edgar Nield (St Leonards; NZL) 2.

Premier Reserves D: (1) John R Cooke (London) 7½/9; (2) Malcolm Firth (Chadderton) 7; (3) Philip Bernard Sarson (Harrow) 6; (4) Anthony John Bowen (Chester, Cambridge University) 5; (5) J Gordon Lloyd 4½; (6) Percival Arthur Cooke 4; (7-8) Leopold Franz Lindheimer, Harold Horace Watts 3½; (9) G F Pelling 2½; (10) Kenneth George Percy Gunnell 1½.

Premier Reserves E: (1) Keith Bevan Richardson (Aspley) 7½/9; (2) Christopher Cedric Lytton Sells (Durham City) 7; (3) David W Anderton (Wolverhampton) 6½; (4) Arthur T Watson 4½; (5) E Fairbrother 4; (6-7) Alfred Milner, Willington Lucette Wakefield 3½; (8-9) Rev. Henry Middleton Blackett, Dr. Francis Henry Charles Marriott 3; (10) William L Brierley (Beckenham) 2½.

Premier Reserves F: (1) M Jackson (Doncaster) 7/9; (2-3) (Frederick) Michael Akeroyd (Cambridge University), Roger L Baker (Bakewell) 6½; (4) L/Cpl. J. M. Dawson 6; (5) Thomas Eagle Lovel Chataway (Stourbridge) 5-½; (6) A. E. Harris (Hastings) 4; (7) Gregory Owen John Melitus 3½; (8) Anthony G Frish 2½; (9) Richard Edward Boxall 2; (10) Ernest George Exell 1½.

Premier Reserves G: (1) Victor Wilfred Knox (Wirral) 9/9; (2) William Bainbridge (Wilmslow) 6½; (3-4) Gordon Othon Esher (Hythe), Geoffrey Alan Hollis (Hastings) 5½; (5-6) J. N. Kemp, Ewart J Smith 4; (7-8) William Edward Busbridge, Geoffrey George Homan 3½; (9) J Hatherley (London) 2; (1) Peter Bernard Ginner 1½.

Premier Reserves, Afternoon: (1) Maj. Eric Howard Flear (Hastings) 7/9; (2) Herbert Francis Gook (S. Croydon) 6; (3-4) J Horrocks (London), R. C. Winter (Hastings) 5½; (5) George Arthur Peck (Rugby) 5; (6-7) Patric Kirtlan, Ronald Ernest Rushbrook 4½; (8) H. Taylor 3; (9-10) John Myles Gorton, P. P. Soper (Tunbridge Wells) 2.

Open A: (1) Richard St George Upton (Hastings) 6½/9; (2-4) George J Craddock (Dunstable), H. B. Howard (Chertsey), Christopher W Johns 6; (5) Anthony J Gillam 5½; (6) A. Buckle 4½; (7-8) Harold Edward Druce (Richmond), A. K. Henderson 4; (9) Edmond Julien T Leyns 1½; (10) Mrs. Jean M Gunnell 1.

Open B: (1) Brian Gunnell (Worthing) 8/9; (2-5) E. Chambers (St Albans), H. Cohen (London), E. Peck (Hastings), R. Platt (Stevenage) 6; (6) N. Myerscough 5; (7) G. Burnett (Worcester) 3½; (8) Lady Gwendolyn Harriet Herbert [née Quilter] (London) 2; (9) Mrs. Laura Ethel Amelia Start (Finchley) 1½; (10) Adam Henry Sinkovic 1.

Open, Afternoon: (1) Roger Leslie Paige (Portsmouth) 8½/9; (2) L. L. M. Jones (Guernsey) 6½; (3-4) Claud Vernal Warter Lucas (Hastings), H. G. White (Hastings) 6; (5) Lewis James Worsell (Whitstable) 4; (6) J. H. Brown 3½; (7-9) Miss Elsie Grace Coulson, Miss E Shirley Mann (Bridgwater), Miss E. Whyte 3; (10) Dr. Frederick Bromley Akeroyd 1½.

One Week Open A: (1) (James) Stuart Ridgway (Wilmslow) 5/7; (2-4) P Guillaume (France), Clifford George Hilton (Manchester), Alex Montwill (Dublin) 4½; (5-6) R. Morton, Miss Margaret Eileen Elizabeth Wood (Sutton Coldfield) 4; (7) J. Johnson 1½; (8) J. H. Brown 0.

One Week Open B: (1) Eric Wilfred Knapp (London) 5½/7; (2-3) R. A. Hubbard (Croydon), A. Laxton (Hastings) 4½; (4-5) B. T. Grouter, G. Knights 4; (6) Albert Edward Oram 3; (7) T. E. Smith 2; (8) D. J. Robinson ½.

One Week Open, Afternoon: (1-2) F C Shorter (London), S. C. Zaiker (London) 5½/7; (3-4) R. J. Duckett (Sanderstead), A. T. Dyer (Retford) 5; (5) R. Mugridge 4; (6) R. A. Oxenham 2; (7) J. E. Mort 1; (8) T. Demarco 0.

---

File Updated

Date	Notes
(some years ago)	45 out of 45 Premier games previously uploaded as part of a collection of Hastings games
12 January 2023	45 Premier games, now with dates, plus 4 games from lower sections, crosstables and results.
14 January 2023	Added 3 games and 1 part-game from the Premier Challengers: (1) P.Hohler ½-½ A.O'Kelly (rd 6); (2) L.Gusel 1-0 P.Hohler (rd 7, part-game); (3) L.Gusel ½-½ P.Gibbs (rd 8); (4) R.Cherubim 0-1 A.R.B.Thomas (rd 9). Many thanks to Ulrich Tamm.
15 July 2023	Added the game P.A.Sunnucks 0-1 P.Bielby (Premier Reserves B). Many thanks to Gerard Killoran for submitting it via the English Chess Forum.