www.britbase.info
© 1997-2024
John Saunders

 

BRITBASE - British Chess Game Archive

Tournament: 40th British Chess Championship • 176 of a possible 176 games (plus 22 games/part-games from subsidiary events)
Venue: Hastings • Dates: 10 - 21 August 1953 • Download PGN • Last Edited: Wednesday 28 June, 2023 5:55 PM

1953 British Chess Championship, Hastings, 10-21 August 1952« »1954

1953 British Chess Championship 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11  Total 
1 Daniel Abraham Yanofsky ◊ 0/9 ♦ 1/15 ◊ 1/14 ♦ 1/4 ◊ 1/3 ◊ 1/2 ♦ 1/25 ♦ 1/8 ◊ ½/5 ♦ 1/10 ◊ 1/7
2 Philip Stuart Milner-Barry ◊ 1/6 ♦ 1/27 ◊ 1/24 ♦ ½/3 ◊ 1/18 ♦ 0/1 ◊ 0/8 ♦ ½/4 ◊ 1/19 ♦ 1/5 ◊ 1/10 8
3 Robert Graham Wade ◊ 1/16 ♦ ½/9 ◊ 1/23 ◊ ½/2 ♦ 0/1 ♦ 1/24 ◊ 1/15 ♦ 0/5 ◊ 1/8 ♦ 1/11 ◊ ½/4
4 Leonard William Barden ◊ ½/13 ♦ 1/5 ◊ ½/9 ◊ 0/1 ♦ ½/28 ♦ 1/12 ◊ 1/20 ◊ ½/2 ♦ ½/7 ◊ 1/21 ♦ ½/3 7
5 Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander ♦ ½/7 ◊ 0/4 ♦ 1/31 ♦ ½/20 ◊ ½/12 ♦ 1/16 ◊ 1/24 ◊ 1/3 ♦ ½/1 ◊ 0/2 ◊ 1/11 7
6 Harry Golombek ♦ 0/2 ♦ ½/22 ◊ ½/16 ♦ ½/27 ◊ 1/32 ◊ 1/30 ♦ ½/10 ◊ 0/7 ♦ 1/25 ◊ 1/19 ♦ 1/13 7
7 Andrew Rowland Benedick Thomas ◊ ½/5 ♦ ½/12 ◊ 1/27 ♦ 0/18 ◊ ½/16 ♦ ½/14 ◊ 1/26 ♦ 1/6 ◊ ½/4 ♦ 1/8 ♦ 0/1
8 Geoffrey F Harris ♦ 0/10 ♦ ½/16 ◊ 1/22 ◊ 1/23 ♦ ½/9 ◊ 1/11 ♦ 1/2 ◊ 0/1 ♦ 0/3 ◊ 0/7 ◊ 1/18 6
9 Dennis Morton Horne ♦ 1/1 ◊ ½/3 ♦ ½/4 ◊ ½/11 ◊ ½/8 ♦ 0/13 ♦ 0/19 ◊ ½/28 ♦ 1/27 ◊ 1/16 ♦ ½/15 6
10 Arnold Yorwarth Green ◊ 1/8 ♦ ½/11 ◊ 1/20 ♦ 0/24 ◊ 1/30 ♦ 0/15 ◊ ½/6 ♦ 1/16 ♦ 1/21 ◊ 0/1 ♦ 0/2 6
11 David Vincent Hooper ◊ 1/12 ◊ ½/10 ♦ ½/30 ♦ ½/9 ◊ ½/15 ♦ 0/8 ◊ 1/18 ♦ 1/24 ◊ 1/20 ◊ 0/3 ♦ 0/5 6
12 Richard Hilary Newman ♦ 0/11 ◊ ½/7 ♦ ½/28 ◊ 1/31 ♦ ½/5 ◊ 0/4 ♦ 1/30 ♦ 0/20 ◊ 1/17 ◊ ½/15 ♦ 1/19 6
13 Gerald Abrahams ♦ ½/4 ◊ ½/28 ♦ 0/25 ◊ ½/14 ♦ 1/27 ◊ 1/9 ♦ 0/21 ◊ ½/26 ◊ 1/18 ♦ 1/20 ◊ 0/6 6
14 Alan Phillips ♦ ½/26 ◊ ½/19 ♦ 0/1 ♦ ½/13 ◊ ½/31 ◊ ½/7 ♦ ½/28 ♦ 0/18 ◊ 1/32 ◊ 1/25 ♦ 1/21 6
15 Thomas H Wise ♦ ½/19 ◊ 0/1 ♦ 1/17 ◊ 1/26 ♦ ½/11 ◊ 1/10 ♦ 0/3 ◊ 0/21 ◊ ½/24 ♦ ½/12 ◊ ½/9
16 Denis Victor Mardle ♦ 0/3 ◊ ½/8 ♦ ½/6 ◊ 1/17 ♦ ½/7 ◊ 0/5 ♦ 1/29 ◊ 0/10 ♦ 1/26 ♦ 0/9 ◊ 1/24
17 Stanley Clifford Davey ◊ ½/18 ♦ 0/24 ◊ 0/15 ♦ 0/16 ◊ 1/22 ♦ 0/29 ◊ 1/31 ♦ 1/23 ♦ 0/12 ◊ 1/26 ◊ 1/27
18 Philip Norman Wallis ♦ ½/17 ◊ ½/26 ♦ 1/19 ◊ 1/7 ♦ 0/2 ◊ 0/25 ♦ 0/11 ◊ 1/14 ♦ 0/13 ◊ 1/28 ♦ 0/8 5
19 Dr. Stefan Fazekas ◊ ½/15 ♦ ½/14 ◊ 0/18 ♦ 0/21 ◊ 1/29 ♦ 1/31 ◊ 1/9 ◊ 1/25 ♦ 0/2 ♦ 0/6 ◊ 0/12 5
20 Percy Baldwin Cook ♦ ½/31 ◊ 1/29 ♦ 0/10 ◊ ½/5 ♦ ½/21 ◊ 1/28 ♦ 0/4 ◊ 1/12 ♦ 0/11 ◊ 0/13 ♦ ½/22 5
21 Ronald Frank Boxall ♦ 0/23 ◊ 0/25 ♦ 1/29 ◊ 1/19 ◊ ½/20 ♦ ½/26 ◊ 1/13 ♦ 1/15 ◊ 0/10 ♦ 0/4 ◊ 0/14 5
22 Peter Hugh Clarke ♦ 0/30 ◊ ½/6 ♦ 0/8 ◊ ½/29 ♦ 0/17 ◊ 1/27 ♦ ½/23 ◊ 1/32 ♦ ½/28 ♦ ½/24 ◊ ½/20 5
23 Thomas Keith Hemingway ◊ 1/21 ◊ ½/30 ♦ 0/3 ♦ 0/8 ◊ 0/26 ♦ ½/32 ◊ ½/22 ◊ 0/17 ♦ 1/29 ◊ ½/31 ♦ 1/28 5
24 Reginald Walter Bonham ♦ 1/28 ◊ 1/17 ♦ 0/2 ◊ 1/10 ♦ ½/25 ◊ 0/3 ♦ 0/5 ◊ 0/11 ♦ ½/15 ◊ ½/22 ♦ 0/16
25 Michael J Franklin ◊ 0/27 ♦ 1/21 ◊ 1/13 ♦ ½/30 ◊ ½/24 ♦ 1/18 ◊ 0/1 ♦ 0/19 ◊ 0/6 ♦ 0/14 ♦ ½/32
26 Herbert Gibson Rhodes ◊ ½/14 ♦ ½/18 ◊ ½/32 ♦ 0/15 ♦ 1/23 ◊ ½/21 ♦ 0/7 ♦ ½/13 ◊ 0/16 ♦ 0/17 ◊ 1/31
27 Theodore Henry Tylor ♦ 1/25 ◊ 0/2 ♦ 0/7 ◊ ½/6 ◊ 0/13 ♦ 0/22 ◊ 1/32 ♦ 1/30 ◊ 0/9 ◊ ½/29 ♦ 0/17 4
28 Harold Israel ◊ 0/24 ♦ ½/13 ◊ ½/12 ♦ 1/32 ◊ ½/4 ♦ 0/20 ◊ ½/14 ♦ ½/9 ◊ ½/22 ♦ 0/18 ◊ 0/23 4
29 Harry Ivor Woolverton ◊ ½/32 ♦ 0/20 ◊ 0/21 ♦ ½/22 ♦ 0/19 ◊ 1/17 ◊ 0/16 ♦ 1/31 ◊ 0/23 ♦ ½/27 ♦ ½/30 4
30 John H Pollitt ◊ 1/22 ♦ ½/23 ◊ ½/11 ◊ ½/25 ♦ 0/10 ♦ 0/6 ◊ 0/12 ◊ 0/27 ♦ 0/31 ♦ ½/32 ◊ ½/29
31 Victor John Anthony Russ ◊ ½/20 ♦ ½/32 ◊ 0/5 ♦ 0/12 ♦ ½/14 ◊ 0/19 ♦ 0/17 ◊ 0/29 ◊ 1/30 ♦ ½/23 ♦ 0/26 3
32 John Bertram Goodman ♦ ½/29 ◊ ½/31 ♦ ½/26 ◊ 0/28 ♦ 0/6 ◊ ½/23 ♦ 0/27 ♦ 0/22 ♦ 0/14 ◊ ½/30 ◊ ½/25 3

1953 British Ladies' Chess Championship 1951« »1954

1953 British Ladies Championship 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11  Total 
1 Eileen Betsy Tranmer ♦ 1/13 ◊ 1/15 ♦ 1/6 ◊ ½/4 ◊ 1/2 ♦ 0/3 ◊ 1/8 ♦ 1/5 ♦ 1/7 ◊ 1/12 ◊ 1/10
2 Rowena Mary Bruce ♦ ½/4 ◊ 1/9 ♦ 1/7 ◊ 1/5 ♦ 0/1 ◊ 1/12 ◊ ½/3 ◊ 1/8 ♦ 1/6 ◊ 1/13 ♦ 1/14 9
3 (Patricia) Anne Sunnucks ♦ 1/12 ◊ 1/17 ♦ 0/5 ◊ 1/6 ♦ 1/4 ◊ 1/1 ♦ ½/2 ◊ ½/7 ♦ 1/8 ◊ 1/14 ♦ 1/13 9
4 Dorothea (Dody) Denise Alma Bourdillon ◊ ½/2 ♦ 1/8 ◊ 1/14 ♦ ½/1 ◊ 0/3 ♦ 0/15 ♦ ½/11 ◊ 1/17 ◊ ½/5 ♦ 1/16 ♦ 1/12 7
5 Cicely Mary Murphy ◊ ½/16 ♦ 1/18 ◊ 1/3 ♦ 0/2 ◊ 1/15 ♦ 0/8 ♦ 1/17 ◊ 0/1 ♦ ½/4 ◊ 1/6 ♦ 1/7 7
6 (Miss) L Lauder ◊ 1/11 ♦ 1/10 ◊ 0/1 ♦ 0/3 ◊ 0/7 ♦ 1/14 ◊ 1/9 ♦ 1/15 ◊ 0/2 ♦ 0/5 ◊ 1/17 6
7 Mary Henniker-Heaton1 ◊ ½/18 ♦ 1/16 ◊ 0/2 ♦ 0/8 ♦ 1/6 ◊ 1/11 ◊ 1/15 ♦ ½/3 ◊ 0/1 ♦ ½/9 ◊ 0/5
8 Minnie Musgrave ♦ 1/9 ◊ 0/4 ♦ ½/12 ◊ 1/7 ♦ 1/13 ◊ 1/5 ♦ 0/1 ♦ 0/2 ◊ 0/3 ♦ 0/10 ◊ 1/20
9 Sarah Margaret Steedman ◊ 0/8 ♦ 0/2 ◊ 0/16 ♦ 1/20 ♦ 1/10 ◊ 1/13 ♦ 0/6 ◊ 1/18 ♦ 0/12 ◊ ½/7 ♦ 1/19
10 Joan Frances Doulton ◊ 1/19 ◊ 0/6 ♦ 0/17 ♦ 0/14 ◊ 0/9 ◊ 1/20 ♦ 1/18 ◊ 1/12 ♦ ½/15 ◊ 1/8 ♦ 0/1
11 (Jean) Lesley (Mary) Fletcher2 ♦ 0/6 ◊ ½/12 ♦ 1/18 ◊ 1/16 ♦ 0/17 ♦ 0/7 ◊ ½/4 ◊ 0/13 ♦ 1/20 ◊ 1/19 ♦ ½/15
12 Jean P M Craker ◊ 0/3 ♦ ½/11 ◊ ½/8 ♦ 1/19 ◊ 1/14 ♦ 0/2 ◊ 1/16 ♦ 0/10 ◊ 1/9 ♦ 0/1 ◊ 0/4 5
13 (Mrs) Jane Sadler Rees3 ◊ 0/1 ♦ 0/14 ◊ 1/20 ♦ 1/18 ◊ 0/8 ♦ 0/9 ◊ 1/19 ♦ 1/11 ◊ 1/16 ♦ 0/2 ◊ 0/3 5
14 Millicent Louise Battrum ♦ 0/17 ◊ 1/13 ♦ 0/4 ◊ 1/10 ♦ 0/12 ◊ 0/6 ♦ 1/20 ◊ 1/19 ◊ 1/18 ♦ 0/3 ◊ 0/2 5
15 Deirdre Colmer ◊ 1/20 ♦ 0/1 ♦ 1/19 ◊ 1/17 ♦ 0/5 ◊ 1/4 ♦ 0/7 ◊ 0/6 ◊ ½/10 ♦ 0/18 ◊ ½/11 5
16 Leah Margaret Hogarth ♦ ½/5 ◊ 0/7 ♦ 1/9 ♦ 0/11 ◊ 1/19 ◊ ½/17 ♦ 0/12 ◊ 1/20 ♦ 0/13 ◊ 0/4 ◊ 1/18 5
17 Hilda Florence Chater ◊ 1/14 ♦ 0/3 ◊ 1/10 ♦ 0/15 ◊ 1/11 ♦ ½/16 ◊ 0/5 ♦ 0/4 ♦ 0/19 ◊ ½/20 ♦ 0/6 4
18 Mary Dew ♦ ½/7 ◊ 0/5 ◊ 0/11 ◊ 0/13 ♦ ½/20 ♦ 1/19 ◊ 0/10 ♦ 0/9 ♦ 0/14 ◊ 1/15 ♦ 0/16 3
19 Barbara Lally4 ♦ 0/10 ♦ 1/20 ◊ 0/15 ◊ 0/12 ♦ 0/16 ◊ 0/18 ♦ 0/13 ♦ 0/14 ◊ 1/17 ♦ 0/11 ◊ 0/9 2
20 Lucy Anness5 ♦ 0/15 ◊ 0/19 ♦ 0/13 ◊ 0/9 ◊ ½/18 ♦ 0/10 ◊ 0/14 ♦ 0/16 ◊ 0/11 ♦ ½/17 ♦ 0/8 1

1 Her full name was in fact Mary Araluen Elizabeth Anne Henniker-Heaton (1904-1972)
2 Miss L Fletcher (as given in sources; also "Miss Elliott-Fletcher") was the sister of Antoinette Mary Hope Elliott-Fletcher (b 1936), who took part in the girls' championship in 1954, as she was also from Richmond. Full name Jean Lesley Mary Fletcher, b 1932, known as Lesley. She played for Surrey in 1960. She married Robert Hans Pinner (1925-2004) in 1962 - he also played chess for Surrey in 1960. Lesley Pinner died in 1982 in Richmond.
3 Jane Sadler Rees (née Davidson, b 25 May 1884, d 1974)
4 Barbara Lally (11 April 1920 - 11 June 1972). She met Denis Mardle during this tournament and they were married on 15 May 1954 in Luton. After Barbara's death from cancer in 1972 Denis Mardle married a second time and died in 2000 (Beds and Herts Pictorial - Tuesday 18 May 1954, p9; click here for a document providing a comprehensive biography of Denis Mardle)
5 Lucy Anness (14 April 1888 - 2nd q. of 1973) Brief obit, BCM, August 1973, p329 & longer obit, SCCU Bulletin, June 1973. "She first became interested in chess in 1938 when headmistress of Aylesbury Senior School for Girls, Bromley, Kent, and immediately put chess on the school curriculum. When she retired in 1952, she threw her energies into the organisation of Junior Chess and became Kent School Organiser and then Junior Organiser, building up the Kent School Chess League from 27 schools in 1953 to 61 in 1961. For many years she also assisted in organising the S.C.C.U. Championships when these were held at Southsea and then at Bognor Regis. In recognition of these services in 1959 the Union elected her their first and only lady President. During all this time, she had close connections with the Bromley and Beckenham clubs and became assistant secretary of the Beckenham Chess Club which met in her own home from 1952 until 1966."


1953 BCF Major Open

Rank Players Total
1-2 (Thomas) John Beach (Liverpool), Derek F Griffiths (Birmingham) 9
3 Kenneth Ray Smith (USA)
4-6 Michael Davis (Bexhill), Kenneth Leslie Gardner (Birmingham), Laurence Alfred John Glyde (Hastings) 7
7-9 David Edward Lloyd (London), Kenneth William Lloyd (London), Walter James E Yeeles (Kent)
10-16 Geoffrey J Martin, Brian J Moore, D J Pearce, Dr Jakob Adolf Seitz (Italy), P Starling (Middlesbrough), (Alexander) Aird Thomson (Glasgow), Stephen Wilkinson 6
17-21 William Broome, Bernard Cafferty (Blackburn), Julian Thomas Farrand (Hampstead), Mrs Gisela Kahn Gresser (USA), Ralph Carter Woodthorpe
22-25 Philip Edward Collier, Charles Reuben Gurnhill, Harry Gethin Thorp Matchett, Jack Dennis Rosse1 (Middlesex) 5
26-28 Arthur Hall (Hampstead), Francis Harry Senneck, A C Sutton
29 Edmund George Ansell (Manchester), Alfred Eva, Thomas Russell (Glasgow), Joseph Maurice Soesan 4
30-33 D H Beattie (Glasgow), John James O’Hanlon (Portadown), Otto Henry Hardy (Batley), Albert Walter William Tulip (Hastings) 3

1 from Lithuania, a violinist by profession: changed name from Jacob Rosselson to Jack Dennis Rosse in 1949. Born 7 November 1900, died 1989. Not related to Leon Rosselson.

1953 BCF MINOR OPEN

1 Leslie Vine 8; 2-5 Brian Halliwell, P. Hamburger, A. Hills, and R. H. Rushton 7½; Peter Hannan, A. C. Mercer, R. F. Streater, and G. W. White 7; D. Gould and P. M. Shaw 6½; J. Edge and W. A. Johnston 6; E. B. Chapman, Dr. J. Creed, D. Fawcett, H. F. Gook, Rev. A. P. L. Hulbert, Rev. W. R. Greenhalgh, Michael Lipton, H. S. Littlechild, Rev. H. Peach, Patrick Humphrey Sullivan 5½; D. M. Polley, Rev. Kenneth Stuart Procter, G. F. Ramsay 5; S. H. Lucas and A. T. Watson 4½; A. Archer, G. R. Evans, L. E. Fletcher, and H. Taylor 4; D. Castello, and M. Ellinger 3½; A. G. Stevens 3; W. J. C. H. Burges 2½.

Second Class A: J. J. Walsh 9½; G. A. Peck 9; Rev. H. M. Blackett and G. O. Melitus 7; P. G. Robinson 6½; H. E. Baxter 6; M. J. Wilkes 5; H. T. Piaggio 4½; R. J. Braunton 4; F. C. Shorter 3½; A. Terrett 3; Mrs. A. G. Lewis 0.

Second Class B: E. Mann 8½ W. N. Calvert and T. W. Sweby 6½; E. F. Cartwright and J. H. Wall 5½; Miss N. F. Harris and C. Hatch 4½; A. J. Davies and F. Passingham 4; G. H. Braunton 3; P. P. Crotty 2.


1953 British Under-21 Championship, YMCA, Dale End, Birmingham, 30 March - 11 April

1953 British Under-21 Championship Resid. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10  Total 
1 Derek Francis Kenneth Griffiths Birmingham
&;
1 0 ½ 1 0 1 1 1 1
2 James B Howson 1 Eltham 0
&;
0 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 6
3 Geoffrey J Martin Ilford 1 1
&;
½ 0 ½ 0 1 1 1 6
4 Malcolm Neil Barker Birmingham ½ ½ ½
&;
0 ½ ½ 1 1 1
5 Kenneth Leslie Gardner Solihull 0 0 1 1
&;
1 ½ 0 1 1
6 Bernard Cafferty Blackburn 1 0 ½ ½ 0
&;
½ ½ 1 ½
7 James B Phipps Birmingham 0 0 1 ½ ½ ½
&;
½ 0 1 4
8 David Edward Lloyd Birmingham 0 ½ 0 0 1 ½ ½
&;
½ 1 4
9 Ralph N Shinn Worcester 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 ½
&;
1
10 John H Watts Birmingham 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 0
&;
½

N.b. this inaugural U21 championship event was held as part of the Birmingham Easter Congress, which ran from 30 March to 11 April 1953 at the YMCA, Dale End, Birmingham. Sources of info: CHESS, May 1953, p146; BCM, May 1953, pps 119-121. The highest placed Midlander also took the Midlands U21 title - that was DF Griffiths.

1 Note that the J.T. Howson here was believed by Bernard Cafferty not to be the same player as the better-known J. B. (James) Howson but I'm beginning to think it must be JB Howson after all - JS


1953 BRITISH GIRLS’ AND BOYS’ CHAMPIONSHIPS [BCM, May 1953, pps 121-122]

... these two events, which took place in the Hastings Chess Club, the second and third weeks of April. The girls’ event [1953 British Girls' Under-18 Championship - 6-10 April, with a championship-deciding adjournment being played on 11 April] was run on American lines, with ten competitors, and resulted as follows—

(1) Myrtle Barnes 7½; (2) Mavis Stanbridge 7; (3-4) Margaret Wood (Sutton Coldfield) and Heather Carpenter 6; (5) Margaret Wood (Bicester) 5; (6) Heather Angel 4½; (7) Caroline Matthews 4; (8) Janice Millross 2½; (9) Janice Hutton 1½; (10) Coral Warner 1.

It is curious there should have been two Margaret Wood’s. The first was the previous holder of the championship (the daughter of B. H. Wood, of Sutton Coldfield), the other came from Bicester. It was quite an exciting contest. Mavis lost her last game by some very poor opening play, and the result depended on an adjourned game between Myrtle and the holder on the last morning, and the combination with which the former won the game was quite first class.

There were eighteen competitors in an Open Competition run on the Swiss System, seven rounds, and this was won by June Beckett, with a score of 6, though she lost her last game to Mary Kynaston, who was second with 5½; Ann Ricketts and M. Allwright shared the third prize with 5 each. Both the prize-winners had been coached by E. A. Coad Pryor. Miss M. Musgrave, Women’s Champion in 1938, gave away the prizes.

The 28th boys’ event [1953 British Boys' Under-18 Championship] attracted thirty-eight entries, and was run on the Swiss System, with nine rounds between Monday evening, April 13th, and Friday night, April 17th. The winner, K. F. H. Inwood, of Tiffin’s School, was the London Chess League’s nominee; he beat T. A. Landry, of William Ellis School, in the last round, by a good King’s-side attack, after the latter had overlooked the winning of a pawn earlier. Landry and G. Jessup, also of William Ellis School, shared the second and third prizes with 6½. M. F. Collins, Sandbach School, Crewe, P. Gough, King Edward VI School, Norwich, J. T. Farrand, Haberdasher’s Aske’s, Hampstead, and A. Hall, of the same school, with P. Starling, of Middlesbrough, all scored 6.

In the opinion of Sir George Thomas the general standard of play was higher than last year, but there was no boy outstanding. There were thirty entrants for an Open Competition, which was run in five sections of six each, with two prizes in each section. On Saturday morning a Lightning Tournament was held in three sections of nine. In Section A Sir George Thomas took part, in B Wade, and in C Golombek; the prizes, presented by Sir George, went to Tidmarsh, Farrand, and Springgay respectively. The last named, from Brighton, won the Rider Shield for the Sussex boy who made the highest score in the championship. The prizes were distributed by the Mayoress of Hastings, Mrs. Rymill.


1953 British Boys' (Under-18) Chess Championship, 13-17 April, Hastings Chess Club

1953 British Boys Chess Championship School/Residence 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9  Total 
1 Kenneth F H Inwood Tiffin's School, Kingston-upon-Thames ♦ 1/35 ♦ 1/21 ◊ 0/14 ◊ 1/34 ♦ 1/3 ♦ 1/11 ◊ 1/10 ♦ ½/5 ◊ 1/2
2 Thomas Anselm Landry William Ellis School, London ♦ 1/24 ◊ ½/20 ◊ ½/10 ♦ ½/26 ◊ 1/28 ♦ 1/18 ♦ 1/5 ◊ 1/4 ♦ 0/1
3 Gilbert Jessup William Ellis School, London ♦ ½/27 ◊ 1/22 ♦ ½/34 ♦ 1/6 ◊ 0/1 ♦ 1/20 ◊ 1/12 ♦ 1/16 ◊ ½/5
4 Malcolm Frank Collins Sandbach School, Crewe ◊ 1/6 ♦ 1/9 ◊ 0/5 ♦ 1/19 ◊ 1/7 ♦ ½/12 ◊ ½/16 ♦ 0/2 ◊ 1/10 6
5 Julian Thomas Farrand Haberdasher’s Aske’s, Hampstead ♦ 1/13 ◊ 1/19 ♦ 1/4 ♦ 1/14 ◊ 1/12 ♦ 0/10 ◊ 0/2 ◊ ½/1 ♦ ½/3 6
6 Philip Gough Ludlow Grammar School ♦ 0/4 1/bye ♦ 1/17 ◊ 0/3 ◊ 1/19 ♦ ½/15 ◊ 1/31 ♦ 1/22 ◊ ½/7 6
7 Arthur Hall Haberdasher’s Aske’s, Hampstead ◊ 0/9 ♦ 1/29 ◊ 1/25 ◊ 1/18 ♦ 0/4 ♦ 1/27 ◊ 1/28 ♦ ½/10 ♦ ½/6 6
8 Peter Starling Acklam Grammar Sch, Middlesbrough ◊ 0/31 ♦ 0/17 ◊ 1/32 ♦ 1/35 ◊ 0/16 ♦ 1/25 ◊ 1/14 ◊ 1/27 ♦ 1/12 6
9 Michael Davis Bexhill Grammar School ♦ 1/7 ◊ 0/4 ♦ 0/11 ♦ 0/27 ♦ 1/31 ♦ 1/17 ◊ 1/13 ♦ ½/15 ◊ 1/21
10 W[illiam?] S[tanley?] Powell St Joseph's College, Stoke ♦ ½/22 ◊ 1/13 ♦ ½/2 ◊ 1/31 ♦ 1/14 ◊ 1/5 ♦ 0/1 ◊ ½/7 ♦ 0/4
11 E J Alexander Purley Grammar School ◊ ½/16 ♦ ½/25 ◊ 1/9 ♦ ½/30 ♦ 1/24 ◊ 0/1 ◊ 1/20 ♦ 0/12 ◊ ½/15 5
12 H A Lee Surbiton County Grammar School ◊ 1/37 ♦ ½/34 ♦ 1/26 ◊ 1/20 ♦ 0/5 ◊ ½/4 ♦ 0/3 ◊ 1/11 ◊ 0/8 5
13 Anthony James Leggett Beaumont College, Old Windsor ◊ 0/5 ♦ 0/10 1/bye ◊ 1/17 ♦ 0/18 ◊ 1/23 ♦ 0/9 ◊ 1/37 ♦ 1/27 5
14 David George Springgay Moulsecoomb Sec. Mod., Brighton ◊ 1/30 ♦ 1/28 ♦ 1/1 ◊ 0/5 ◊ 0/10 ♦ 0/16 ♦ 0/8 ◊ 1/31 ◊ 1/24 5
15 David A Tidmarsh 1 Wilson's Grammar School, Camberwell ♦ 1/23 ◊ 0/26 ♦ 0/19 ◊ 1/37 ♦ 1/34 ◊ ½/6 ♦ ½/27 ◊ ½/9 ♦ ½/11 5
16 D[ouglas?] Williams Westborough, Surrey ♦ ½/11 ◊ ½/27 ♦ ½/31 ◊ ½/24 ♦ 1/8 ◊ 1/14 ♦ ½/4 ◊ 0/3 ◊ ½/22 5
17 Vernon Henry Barnett Worcester College for the Blind ♦ 0/19 ◊ 1/8 ◊ 0/6 ♦ 0/13 ◊ ½/32 ◊ 0/9 1/bye ◊ 1/29 ♦ 1/30
18 Ronald A Fuller Ipswich ◊ ½/25 ♦ ½/31 ◊ 1/21 ♦ 0/7 ◊ 1/13 ◊ 0/2 ♦ ½/24 ♦ ½/20 ◊ ½/19
19 Simon Goldstein East Ham Grammar School ◊ 1/17 ♦ 0/5 ◊ 1/15 ◊ 0/4 ♦ 0/6 ♦ ½/31 ◊ 1/34 ♦ ½/21 ♦ ½/18
20 Denis John Pereira Gray Exeter School ◊ 1/29 ♦ ½/2 ♦ 1/37 ♦ 0/12 ◊ 1/26 ◊ 0/3 ♦ 0/11 ◊ ½/18 ♦ ½/23
21 J Laurence St Albans 1/bye ◊ 0/1 ♦ 0/18 ♦ ½/25 ◊ 1/36 ◊ ½/26 ♦ 1/30 ◊ ½/19 ♦ 0/9
22 (David) Keith Peters Port Talbot Grammar School ◊ ½/10 ♦ 0/3 ♦ 0/23 ◊ ½/36 ♦ 1/33 ♦ 1/35 ◊ 1/26 ◊ 0/6 ♦ ½/16
23 Keith E Stanley Ilford County High School ◊ 0/15 ♦ ½/32 ◊ 1/22 ♦ 0/28 ◊ ½/25 ♦ 0/13 ◊ 1/35 ♦ 1/26 ◊ ½/20
24 W Turner Steyning Grammar School ◊ 0/2 ♦ 1/35 ◊ ½/30 ♦ ½/16 ◊ 0/11 ♦ 1/37 ◊ ½/18 ◊ 1/28 ♦ 0/14
25 Roger Francis Busby Eastbourne College ♦ ½/18 ◊ ½/11 ♦ 0/7 ◊ ½/21 ♦ ½/23 ♦ 0/8 ♦ 1/33 ◊ ½/30 ♦ ½/28 4
26 J McLeod Varndean School, Brighton ◊ 1/32 ♦ 1/15 ◊ 0/12 ◊ ½/2 ♦ 0/20 ♦ ½/21 ♦ 0/22 ◊ 0/23 ◊ 1/36 4
27 R E Miles (Oxfordshire) ◊ ½/3 ♦ ½/16 ◊ ½/28 ◊ 1/9 ♦ 1/30 ◊ 0/7 ◊ ½/15 ♦ 0/8 ◊ 0/13 4
28 Michael Edward Ventham King Edward VI School, Southampton ♦ 1/33 ◊ 0/14 ♦ ½/27 ◊ 1/23 ♦ 0/2 ◊ 1/34 ♦ 0/7 ♦ 0/24 ◊ ½/25 4
29 Roger W Barclay-Smith Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh ♦ 0/20 ◊ 0/7 ♦ ½/36 ♦ ½/32 ◊ 0/35 1/bye ♦ ½/37 ♦ 0/17 ◊ 1/34
30 Gabriel Eyamba Essien Bolton County Grammar School ♦ 0/14 ◊ 1/33 ♦ ½/24 ◊ ½/11 ◊ 0/27 ♦ 1/32 ◊ 0/21 ♦ ½/25 ◊ 0/17
31 Brian F Burrows Bridgend, Wales ♦ 1/8 ◊ ½/18 ◊ ½/16 ♦ 0/10 ◊ 0/9 ◊ ½/19 ♦ 0/6 ♦ 0/14 ◊ ½/32 3
32 Peter W Haddock Ilford County High School ♦ 0/26 ◊ ½/23 ♦ 0/8 ◊ ½/29 ♦ ½/17 ◊ 0/30 ◊ 0/36 1/bye ♦ ½/31 3
33 J B/N Hyde Tower Road School, St Leonards ◊ 0/28 ♦ 0/30 ◊ 0/35 1/bye ◊ 0/22 ♦ 1/36 ◊ 0/25 ♦ 0/34 ♦ 1/37 3
34 A J Linfield Kent College, Canterbury ♦ 1/36 ◊ ½/12 ◊ ½/3 ♦ 0/1 ◊ 0/15 ♦ 0/28 ♦ 0/19 ◊ 1/33 ♦ 0/29 3
35 D J Lloyd Ludlow Grammar School ◊ 0/1 ◊ 0/24 ♦ 1/33 ◊ 0/8 ♦ 1/29 ◊ 0/22 ♦ 0/23 ♦ 0/36 1/bye 3
36 R D Wickham Taunton School ◊ 0/34 ♦ 0/37 ◊ ½/29 ♦ ½/22 ♦ 0/21 ◊ 0/33 ♦ 1/32 ◊ 1/35 ♦ 0/26 3
37 Brian Robert Perham Worcester College for the Blind ♦ 0/12 ◊ 1/36 ◊ 0/20 ♦ 0/15 1/bye ◊ 0/24 ◊ ½/29 ♦ 0/13 ◊ 0/33
38 C A Gray - defaulted Beaumont College, Old Windsor defaulted 0

Principal sources: 1953/54 BCF Yearbook; various issues of The Times
1 The Times gives "H. D. Tidmarsh" but there is no known person of this name in the UK and there is a known player called David A Tidmarsh, b 1936.

n.b. several of these players took part in the 1953 Glorney Cup which has been excellently documented by Sean Coffey at IRLchess.com

1953 Ken Inwood wins the british Under-18 Championship
From the Illustrated London News, Saturday 25 April 1953, page 15


[Manchester Guardian, 18 April 1953, p7] "BOY CHESS CHAMPION - K. F. H. Inwood, a seventeen-year-old schoolboy, of Molesey Road, Hersham, Surrey, became the boy chess champion of Britain at Hastings last night. His final score in the British boys’ chess championship at the twenty-eighth annual British Boys’ Chess Congress was seven and a half points. Inwood, who holds the London boys’ championship, goes to Tiffin’s School, Kingston-on-Thames."


[The Times, various editions, April 1953] 1953 British Girls' Under-18 Chess Championship Results: 1 Myrtle Barnes (aged 16, Bromley County Technical School) 7½/9; 2 Mavis Stanbridge (aged 15, of King’s Warren Grammar School, Plumstead) 7; 3-4 Peggy Wood (aged 15, King Edward's High School, Birmingham) and Heather Carpenter (aged 15, King’s Warren Grammar School) 6; 5 Margaret Wood (aged 14, Bicester Grammar School) 5; 6 Heather Angell (aged 15, a Middlesex shorthand typist) 4½; 7 Caroline Matthews (aged 15, Bromley High School) 4; 8 Janice Millross (aged 15, King’s Warren Grammar School) 2½; 9 Janice Hutton (aged 15, King’s Warren Grammar School) 1½; 10 Coral Warner (Sidcup and Chislehurst Technical School), 1.

1953 British Girls Championship Age, School Draw No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10  Total 
1 Myrtle Barnes 16, Bromley County Technical School 6
&;
1 1 1 1 ½ 0 1 1 1
2 Mavis Stanbridge 15, King’s Warren Grammar School, Plumstead 3 0
&;
1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 7
3 Peggy Wood 15, King Edward's High School, Birmingham 1 0 0
&;
1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 6
4 Heather Carpenter 15, King’s Warren Grammar School 2 0 1 0
&;
½ ½ 1 1 1 1 6
5 Margaret Wood 14, Bicester Grammar School 9 0 0 ½ ½
&;
1 1 ½ ½ 1 5
6 Heather Angell 15, Middlesex, shorthand typist 10 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0
&;
1 1 0 1
7 Caroline Matthews 15, Bromley High School 8 1 0 0 0 0 0
&;
1 1 1 4
8 Janice Millross 15, King’s Warren Grammar School 5 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0
&;
1 1
9 Janice Hutton 15, King’s Warren Grammar School 4 0 0 0 0 ½ 1 0 0
&;
0
10 Coral Warner Sidcup and Chislehurst Technical School 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
&;
1

1953 Myrtle Barnes, Girls U18 Champion
From the Illustrated London News, Saturday 18 April 1953, page 18


From the Hastings and St Leonards Observer - Saturday 08 August 1953...

Chess 'World Citizen'
In support of his claim to be "a citizen of the world," Dr. J. A. Seitz, who is competing in the Major Open event of the British Chess Federation Coronation Chess Congress at the Town Hall next week, can quote some very interesting facts. He was born in Bavaria, lives in Norway, represents the Italian Chess Federation and is a life member of the British Chess Federation. Before the last war he lived in Argentina. A polyglot, he can speak in praise of chess in almost any language. Despite his international outlook, Dr. Seitz admits a liking for this country. "I was the first German to play in England after the First World War," is his proud claim. This he did at the London 1922 Congress. Asked which of all places in England he likes best he replied: "Hastings takes a lot of beating,*' which is high praise indeed from "a citizen of the world."


File Updated

Date Notes
(Circa 1998) Most of these games have been available here for nearly 20 years but I've now added dates, full names of players (where available), and included crosstables and results.
23 April 2016 One extra game from the Major Open, supplied by Brian Denman (many thanks), and also a Bernard Cafferty game from the Major Open which has already appeared on BritBase in the Bernard Cafferty game collection and which needs to be located in this file too.
1 May 2018 Added the game Eva-Thomson (Rd 7, Major Open), found in the Glasgow Herald.
3 May 2018 Added the game W.Yeeles-D.Pearce, from the Major Open - thanks to Gerard Killoran.
13 March 2019 Added details of the British Under-21 Championship which was held in Birmingham during Easter, and the Boys and Girls Under-18, held in Hastings after Easter.
28 May 2019 Added 8 further games, from the Under-21, Boys' Under-18 and Girls' Under-18 tournaments, which were played separately and earlier than the main congress. I have also provided further text relating to the two Under-18 events from the Times and Manchester Guardian. Games total now = 193
8 January 2021 Correction applied to Rhodes-Goodman, Rd 3. Thanks to Geoff Chandler for drawing my attention to this.
27 April 2022 Part-game from the Minor Open added: Lacy-Hulbert 1-0 A Watson. Contributed by Gerard Killoran via the English Chess Forum, for which many thanks.
18 June 2022 Four more games added: (1) M.Barker ½-½ D.Griffiths (Under 21); (2) J.Phipps 0-1 D.Griffiths (Under 21); (3) K.Gardner 1-0 K.Lloyd (Major Open); (4) D.Griffiths 1-0 K.Lloyd (Major Open). Thanks to Gerard Killoran who posted them on the English Chess Forum. I've also taken the opportunity to prepare a complete crosstable of the British Boys' (Under 18) Championship, played at Hastings in April 1953.