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Event: 9th Bognor Regis Congress • 17 games, 1 part-game + 8 from other sections • Last Edited: Wednesday 14 January, 2026 1:03 AM
Venue: Rex Ballroom, Bognor Regis • Dates: 5-15 April 1961 • Download PGN

1961 (9th) Bognor Regis: Stevenson Memorial, Wednesday 5 April - Saturday 15 April 1961 • 1960«»1962

Venue: Rex Ballroom, Bognor Regis

1961 Bognor Regis
9th Stevenson Memorial		 Residence 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11  Total 
1 Alberic O'Kelly de Galway Belgium b34+ w33+ b2= w8+ b4+ w3+ b21+ w10= b5= w20+ w15+ 9½
2 Klaus Darga W.Germany b50+ w14+ w1= b18+ b3= w4+ b5+ w12= b10= w17+ w11= 8½
3 (Philip) Stuart Milner-Barry London w49+ w23+ b6+ b24= w2= b1- b14+ w4+ b12+ w10= b5+ 8½
4 Dr. Heinz Lehmann W.Germany w47+ b9+ w10+ b20+ w1- b2- w24+ b3- w27+ b12+ w21+ 8
5 Leonard W Barden London b30= w25= b14= w38+ b6+ w23+ w2- b24+ w1= b15+ w3- 7
6 Dr. Eugene Martinovsky London; USA w51+ b27+ w3- b7= w5- 15= 25- 13+ 31+ 33+ b10+ 7
7 Arnolds Mazitis London w19+ b29+ w24= w6= b21- 35= 13+ w11+ b20- b9= w27+ 7
8 David Brine Pritchard Bognor Regis w22+ b24= w46+ b1- w13+ b10- 27- 44+ b21= 16+ b20+ 7
9 Elaine Pritchard Bognor Regis w40+ w4- b22= 19= 41+ 12- 44= 47+ w28+ w7= b17+ 7
10 Robert Graham Wade Ilford; NZL b38+ w16+ b4- w29= b28+ w8+ w20+ b1= w2= b3= w6- 7
11 Ronald A Fuller Ilford w27- b35- w37+ 39+ 40+ 17= 22+ b7- 34+ w21= b2= 6½
12 David E Lloyd London w39- b32+ w35+ b25- 36+ 9+ w16+ b2= w3- w4- 34+ 6½
13 David Graham Wells Cambridge b17= w18- b50+ 16+ b8- 30+ 7- 6- 47+ 35+ 28+ 6½
14 Christopher Baruch Wood Cambridge w32+ b2- w5= 34+ b17= b18+ w3- 25+ w15- 27= 23+ 6½
15 Ignacy Branicki Amsterdam b20- w47+ b16= w17- 34+ 6= 35+ 32+ b14+ w5- b1- 6
16 Konstantin V Grivainis South Africa w41+ b10- w15= 13- 26+ 45+ b12- 19= 40+ 8- 32+ 6
17 Arthur Hall Hastings w13= b45= w27= b15+ w14= 11= 18+ w21= b23+ b2- w9- 6
18 Jack Dennis Rosse1 London b25= b13+ w36+ w2- b29+ w14- 17- b28- 44= 38+ 33+ 6
19 Eileen Betsy Tranmer London b7- w48+ 23= 9= 38= 22- b29+ 16= 33- 44+ 31+ 6
20 Derek Ross Thomson Glasgow w15+ b39+ w28+ w4- b25+ w21= b10- b27= w7+ b1- w8- 6
21 Baruch H Wood Sutton Coldfield b46- b31+ w45+ w33+ w7+ b20= w1- b17= w8= b11= b4- 6
22 Otto H Hardy Sheffield b8- b41+ w9= 26+ b23- 19+ 11- 34- 29= 42+ 25= 5½
23 Owen M Hindle Sutton Coldfield w35+ b3- 19= 27+ w22+ b5- 32= 33+ w17- 34= 14- 5½
24 James B Howson Romford b48+ w8= b7= w3= b35= w25+ b4- w5- 32= b28- 40+ 5½
25 Donald G Mackay Balham, London w18= b5= w49+ w12+ w20- b24- 6+ 14- 35= 32= 22= 5½
26 Harry Gethin Thorp Matchett Bexhill w36= b44+ w29- 22- 16- 40- 43+ 31- 46+ 41+ 37+ 5½
27 Robert H Northage Bath b11+ w6- b17= 23- 33+ 28+ 8+ w20= b4- 14= b7- 5½
28 Wilfred Henry Pratten Fareham w37+ w46+ b20- 36= w10- 27- b45+ w18+ b9- w24+ 13- 5½
29 Rodney E James Banstead w43+ w7- b26+ b10= w18- 32- w19- 46+ 22= 40= 35= 5
30 J Gordon Lloyd Cambridge w5= b36- w43= 40- 39+ 13- 41- 37- 48+ 49+ 44+ 5
31 Lewis Johnstone Mills Watford b33- w21- b51+ 32- 46+ 38+ 47- 26+ 6- 45+ 19- 5
32 Keith M Oliff Basildon b14- w12- b48+ 31+ 45= 29+ 23= 15- 24= 25= 16- 5
33 Herbert Gibson Rhodes Southport w31+ b1- w39+ b21- 27- 41+ 40+ 23- 19+ 6- 18- 5
34 George W Wheeler Plymouth w1- b37+ w40= 14- 15- 43+ 36+ 22+ 11- 23= 12- 5
35 John F Wheeler Plymouth b23- w11+ b12- 46+ w24= 7= 15- 41+ 25= 13- 29= 5
36 Bernard Landon Wilkinson Chorley b26= w30+ b18- 28= 12- 47= 34- 45= 38- 43+ 42+ 5
37 William Leonard Brierley Beckenham b28- w34- b11- 48+ 49+ 44- 46= 30+ 42- 47+ 26- 4½
38 Paul Dean London w10- b43= w44+ b5- 19= 31- 39+ 40- 36+ 18- 45= 4½
39 J Glanville Mitcham b12+ w20- b33- 11- 30- 42+ 38- 48- 43= 50+ 47+ 4½
40 John H Manners Sutton b9- w50= b34= 30+ 11- 26+ 33- 38+ 16- 29= 24- 4½
41 Alan Lawrence Ayriss Brixton b16- w22- b47+ 43+ 9- 33- 30+ 35- 45= 26- 48= 4
42 J Eyre   replacement 47- 48+ 39- 50+ 49+ 37+ 22- 36- 4 / 8
43 George William Henlen Ashtead b29- w38= b30= 41- 44= 34- 26- 50+ 39= 36- 49+ 4
44 (Patricia) Anne Sunnucks London b45= w26- b38- 50+ 43= 37+ 9= 8- 18= 19- 30- 4
45 Charles L Tadiello Bracknell w44= w17= b21- 49+ 32= 16- w28- 36= 41= 31- 38= 4
46 Stanley Charles Love Wimbledon w21+ b28- b8- 35- 31- 49+ 37= 29- 26- 48- 50+ 3½
47 T E Waites Worcester b4- b15- w41- 42+ 50+ 36= 31+ 9- 13- 37- 39- 3½
48 Arthur T Watson Worthing w24- b19- w32- 37- 42- 50+ 49- 39+ 30- 46+ 41= 3½
49 Ernest George Exell Hemel Hempstead b3- w51+ b25- 45- 37- 46- 48+ 42- 50= 30- 43- 2½
50 Patric Kirtlan Brighton w2- b40= w13- 44- 47- 48- 42- 43- 49= 39- 46- 1
51 J Abrey Durham b6- b49- w31- withdrew 0 / 3
52 Clifford G Hilton   withdrew -
53 Marshall Thompson   withdrew -

Sources of crosstable: SCCU Bulletin, no.19, April 1961 (some corrections applied); also CHESS, Vol.26, no.383-4, April 1961, p248

1 né Jacob Rosselson - a violinist by profession, born November 1900 (Lithuania), died 1989. Not related to celebrated folk singer, writer and chess player Leon Rosselson.
2 some photos of the participants may be found in the Bognor Regis Observer, 14 April 1961

Other Sections

Championship Reserves (10 entries); (1) Alan Edgar Nield (New Zealand) 7½/9; (2-3) Sydney Archer Gill (Worthing), Donald O Gould (Leicester) 7; (4) J F Watson (Emsworth) 5½; (5) Leonard Shenfield (London) 4½; (6-7) Gregory Owen John Melitus (London), Oscar Serck (Knighton) 3½; (8) Miss Margaret Wood (Newbury) 3; (9) Maurice Herbert Exell (Bognor Regis - elder brother of Ernest George Exell) 2; (10) P H White (Kettering) 1½.

Southern Counties' Chess Union (SCCU) Championships

1961 SCCU Women's Championship

1961 SCCU Women's Championship Residence 1 2 3 4 5 6  Total 
1 Miss Verina Horsnell1 Lee
&;
1 1 1 1 1 5
2 Mrs Kate Kelcey de Vere2 Canterbury 0
&;
1 1 1 1 4
3 Mrs H Wilding Maidstone 0 0
&;
      2½
4 Miss Valerie Pockett3 Gloucester 0 0  
&;
    2
5 Mrs Grant Chichester 0 0    
&;
  1
6 Miss D Fry Southampton 0 0      
&;
½

1 later Powers - also qualified as 1961 SCCU Girls U18 Champion, there being no other entrants.
2 née Denne
3 m. 1967 Peter J M Smith


n.b. detailed tables of the 1961 SCCU Junior events summarised below may be found online at the SCCU website but they contain various errors which I have attempted to correct below - JS

All the Southern Counties' Junior Championship events were played over five days.

1961 SCCU Boys Championship (Under 18)

1961 Southern Counties
Boys Under-18 Championship		 Residence/School 1 2 3 4 5 6 7  Total 
1 Geoffrey H James Brighton w26+ b16+ w6= b2+ w7+ b8+ w3= 6
2 Ronald A Harris Shirley 12+ 17+ 13+ w1- 8= 16+ 4= 5
3 Andrew J Whiteley Magdalen Coll Sch 6- 26+ 20+ 15+ 17+ 7= b1= 5
4 Robert J Castle Wokingham 27+ 20+ 7= 8- 6= 5+ 2= 4½
5 David E Hustler Thornton Heath 24- 19= 27+ 11+ 10+ 4- 20+ 4½
6 John A Miller Whitgift, Croydon 3+ 18+ b1= 7- 4= 13= 16+ 4½
7 M J Taylor Banstead 29+ 11+ 4= 6+ b1- 3= 8= 4½
8 George M Wilmers Clifton 14= 25+ 12+ 4+ 2= w1- 7= 4½
9 K N Anderson Gloucester 15= 22= 24= 10= 18+ 17= 13= 4
10 R V Atkins Oxford 11- 23+ 14= 9= 5- 25+ 17+ 4
11 A Firmin Ashtead 10+ 7- 16= 5- 22+ 24+ 14= 4
12 Michael R Lavington Purley 2- 28+ 8- 20- 21+ 22+ 26+ 4
13 James N Miller Brighton 19+ 24+ 2- 17- 15+ 6= 9= 4
14 Colin Irvine Moffat Kingston-upon-Thames 8= 15= 10= 24- 23+ 10+ 11= 4
15 A de Caux Jersey 9= 14= 29+ 3- 20- 28+ 18= 3½
16 Hugh Dowsett Ipswich 23+ w1- 11= 22+ 24+ 2- 6- 3½
17 Michael G Ford Southampton 28+ 2- 21+ 13+ 3- 9= 10- 3½
18 A le Miere   bye+ 6- 22- 29+ 9- 23+ 15= 3½
19 Michael Victor Penston Beckenham 13- 5= 25= 21= 29+ 14- 24+ 3½
20 R Randall Southampton 21+ 4- 3- 12+ 25- 29w 5- 3
21 Richard M F Russell London 20- 27+ 17- 19= 12- 26= 25+ 3
22 Richard W M Thomas Gloucester 25= 9= 18+ 16- 11- 12- 27+ 3
23 Peter Barrie Collacott Chatham 16- 10- bye+ 25= 14- 18- 28+ 2½
24 Geoffrey Knights Cambridge 5+ 13- 9= 14+ 16- 11- 19- 2½
25 D Saunders Southampton 22= 8- 19= 23= 20+ 10- 21- 2½
26 Peter J B Wilson Croydon b1- 3- 28- bye+ 27+ 21= 12- 2½
27 Colin E Lacey Bewdley 4- 21- 7- 28+ 26- bye+ 22- 2
28 R Reid Battersea 17- 12- 26+ 27- bye+ 15- 23- 2
29 R J Stacey Brighton 7- bye+ 15- 18- 19- 20d bye+ 2

The two byes in the first two rounds were nominally against R Coleby who withdrew after two rounds. Stacey had two bye wins plus a default loss to Randall.

1961 SCCU Boys Championship (Under 16)

1961 Southern Counties
Boys Under-16 Championship		 Residence/School 1 2 3 4 5 6 7  Total 
1 Michael J Basman Esher 13+ 5= 21+ 3+ 8+ 2+ 4+ 6½
2 David Parr Sutton 26+ 21+ 3= 5+ 4+ 1- 7+ 5½
3 B Gunnell Worthing 17+ 14+ 2= 1- 7= 8+ 9+ 5
4 Louis de Veauce (aged 11) Englefield Green 20+ 11+ 8+ 7+ 2- 10+ 1- 5
5 A Whitbread1 Brixton 9+ 1= 10+ 2- 6= 13+ 12+ 5
6 H T Atkins Oxford 16+ 10= 7- 22+ 5= 11= 15+ 4½
7 Anthony I Ogus Blackheath 19+ 18+ 6+ 4- 3= 15+ 2- 4½
8 Michael J Bauchop Southampton 15+ 22+ 4- 9+ 1- 3- 19+ 4
9 Adrian F Clapp Worthing 5- 20+ 11+ 8- 19+ 16+ 3- 4
10 Derek P Cleavely Worthing 12+ 6= 5- 18+ 21+ 4- 11= 4
11 Peter D Everson Patcham 24+ 4- 9- 20+ 14+ 6= 10= 4
12 B Skinner Ewell 10- 24+ 17+ 16= 13= 14+ 5- 4
13 K Allen Alleyns 1- 23+ 18+ 15= 12= 5- 14= 3½
14 G Downton2   23+ 3- 15- 25+ 11- 12- 13= 2½
15 M Emmanuel   8- 26+ 14+ 13= 16+ 7- 6- 3½
16 P Fayers   6- 25+ bye+ 12= 15- 9- 24+ 3½
17 M Pillinger   3- 19+ 12- 21- 23+ 20+ 18= 3½
18 A G Taylor   22+d 7- 13- 10- 25+ 21+ 17= 3½
19 A Morgan   7- 17- 24+ bye+ 9- 23+ 8- 3
20 A Jeffrey   4- 9- 25+ 11- 22+ 17- 21= 2½
21 R Martin   25+ 2- 1- 17+ 10- 18- 20= 2½
22 B Barham   18-d 8- 23+ 6- 20- 24- 25+ 2
23 Graham Richard Olden Chichester 14- 13- 22- 24+ 17- 19- bye+ 2
24 John Prentice Hamble 11- 12- 19- 23- bye+ 22+ 16- 2
25 Peter Mylechreest   21- 16- 20- 14- 18- bye+ 22- 1
26 V F Jenkins   2- withdrew 0

1 Given as M T Whitbread in the SCCU bulletin but A Whitbread in CHESS - I think the latter is correct
2 G Downton was credited with 3½ points in the SCCU bulletin crosstable but his score added up to only 2½ points when I checked. Various other errors found in the original crosstable published in the SCCU bulletin have been corrected

1961 SCCU Boys Championship (Under 14)

1961 Southern Counties
Boys Under-14 Championship		 Residence/School  Total 
1-3 Philip S Buckman Ewell 5½
1-3 (Paul) John Patience Southampton 5½
1-3 R Taylor London 5½
4-8 R A Dixon Worcester Park 5
4-8 David E Gittins   5
4-8 D Millen London 5
4-8 L Norman Jersey 5
4-8 N Penncock Parkhouse 5
9-12 K Bird Parkhouse 4½
9-12 Joseph Peter Olijnyk Gloucester 4½
9-12 D P/W Powell Ewell 4½
9-12 P Ware London 4½
13-20 Charles W P Baden-Fuller   4
13-20 M Fox   4
13-20 D Gardner   4
13-20 M Ludgate   4
13-20 D Parsons   4
13-20 J R Price   4
13-20 J Scanlon   4
13-20 J Waterfield   4
21-23 Christopher Hayward   3½
21-23 M Miskin   3½
21-23 B Wint   3½
24-32 G Auckland   3
24-32 M Carter   3
24-32 P Case   3
24-32 P Davies   3
24-32 D Ellins   3
24-32 R Lennard   3
24-32 Jolyon F R Moss   3
24-32 N Rickard   3
24-32 B Taylor   3
33-35 D Barer   2½
33-35 P Oldring   2½
33-35 Christopher R Twilley Surrey 2½
36-38 G Carter   2
36-38 M Millen   2
36-38 M Scott   2
39-41 Alan Boniface   1½
39-41 Max Clark   1½
39-41 Barry Steel   1½
42 G Counter   0

1961 SCCU Boys Championship (Under 12)

1961 Southern Counties
Boys Under-12 Championship		 Residence/School  Total 
1 Paul H Collins Hayes 6
2-4 Terry D Baldwin Streatham 5½
2-4 T Clark Streatham 5½
2-4 R Jefferies London 5½
5-6 Brian Jennings William Ellis 5
5-6 Anthony McGill London 5
7-12 P Dixon   4½
7-12 L Fitt   4½
7-12 Roger L Gittins   4½
7-12 M Goldstein   4½
7-12 P Keen   4½
7-12 R M Wix   4½
13-16 S Cookney   4
13-16 A Fatica   4
13-16 James E O'Dell Ewell 4
13-16 K Rogers   4
17-21 J Cook   3½
17-21 R Gardner   3½
17-21 C Moore   3½
17-21 P Morgan   3½
17-21 G Wallis   3½
22-28 D Booth   3
22-28 C Hanlon   3
22-28 D N F Harris   3
22-28 V Pearson   3
22-28 I Rudd   3
22-28 R Smith   3
22-28 Nicholas G Twilley Surrey 3
29-30 V Jenkins   2½
29-30 N Lambourne   2½
31-35 M Fletcher   2
31-35 Nigel H Jest Surrey 2
31-35 (Charles) Lovell Noye Worthing 2
31-35 Mark Pittaway   2
31-35 Peter G Shorter Chichester 2
36-38 David J Enticott Worthing 1
36-38 Terance W Hart London 1
36-38 P Smithers   1
39 B Shorter   0

1961 SCCU Girls Championship (Under 16)

1961 Southern Counties
Girls Under-16 Championship		 Residence/School 1 2 3 4 5 6 7  Total 
1 Gillian A Moore Southampton 17+ 11+ 4+ 7+ 9+ 2= 3+ 6½
2 C Lake Nonsuch School 20+ 14+ 8+ 9= 7+ 1= 15+ 6
3 D Baker   32+ 22+ 9- 10+ 20+ 8+ 1- 5
4 C Barrett Nonsuch School 34+ 13+ 1- 5= 18+ 10= 14+ 5
5 Dinah M Dobson (»Norman) Rickmansworth 12+ 10- 11+ 4= 25+ 9= 18+ 5
6 J Greenshields1 Gloucester 25+ 16- 19+ 15- 23+ 21+ 20+ 5
7 Zena Hiller Stamford 29+ 26+ 15+ 1- 2- 24+ 16+ 5
8 Jennifer A Eatough Gloucester 27+ 33+ 2- 16+ 12+ 3- 17= 4½
9 Penny Griffin Cheam 21+ 18+ 3+ 2= 1- 5= 10= 4½
10 L M B Jones   16+ 5+ 18= 3- 24+ 4= 9= 4½
11 S Baker Plumstead 19+ 1- 5- 33+ 21+ 16- 22+ 4
12 Linda Janet Bott (»Bellamy) London 5- 19+ 13+ 21+ 8- 14- 24+ 4
13 Susan Boyles   28+ 4- 12- 22- 30+ 25+ 26+ 4
14 Lynne Crew-Smith Gloucester 23+ 2- 17+ 20- 22+ 12+ 4- 4
15 M Sharp   22- 31+ 7- 6+ 17+ 20+ 2- 4
16 S Thomas   10- 6+ 22+ 8- 29+ 11+ 7- 4
17 Patricia Rimington Plumstead 1- 24+ 14- 23+ 15- 31+ 9= 3½
18 B Whitear   31+ 9- 10= 28+ 4- 26+ 5- 3½
19 H Cain   11- 12- 6- 32- 34+ 33+ 27+ 3
20 J Coe   2- 34+ 33+ 14+ 3- 15- 6- 3
21 C M Hann Eltham 9- 27+ 23+ 12- 11- 6- 30+ 3
22 M Harris   15+ 3- 16- 13+ 14- 28+ 11- 3
23 J Millen Kingsdale 14- 30+ 21- 17- 6- 32+ 31+ 3
24 Carole A Alderdice (»Roberts)   26= 17- 34+ 29+ 10- 7- 12- 2½
25 Jeanette Maureen Idle Plumstead 6- 28- 32+ 30+ 5- 13- 29= 2½
26 M McGranaghan   24= 7- 30- 27+ 28+ 18- 13- 2½
27 J Rowe   8- 21- 31= 26- 33+ 29+ 19- 2½
28 J Spingate   13- 25+ 29= 18- 26- 22- 33+ 2½
29 J Payne   7- 32+ 28= 24- 16- 27- 25= 2
30 J Pritchard   33- 23- 26+ 25- 13- 34+ 21- 2
31 B Sanders   18- 15- 27= 34= 32+ 17- 23- 2
32 D Hicks   3- 29- 25- 19+ 31- 23- 34= 1½
33 V Cronin   30+ 8- 20- 11- 27- 19- 28- 1
34 S Limbrick   4- 20- 24- 31= 19- 30- 32= 1

1 J Greenshields' score was wrongly given as 4 in the SCCU crosstable - her first-round result was misprinted as a loss.

Open Swiss - Six Day (8 entries): (1) Michael Victor Penston (Beckenham) 5½/6; (2) Albert Stanley La Lond (Portchester) 5; (3-4) Mrs. Van den Bergh (Windsor), Miss Anne Hilda Gammans (Shoreham) 4½; (5) F T Comber 4; (6) J E Mort 2½; (7) Mrs Grant 1½; (8) C A B Smith ½.

Open Swiss - Five Day (6 entries): (1) Miss Margaret Wood (Bicester) 4½; (2) Mrs Van den Bergh (Windsor) 4; (3) John Hodgkins (Gloucester) 3½; (4) Mrs Langley 2; (5) Miss Y Guthrie 1; (6) Lawrence W Grumbley (Chichester) 1.

Major - Ten Day Mornings (10 entries): (1) Robert C Pentecost (Sydenham) 7½/10; (2-3) W J Matthews (Bristol), R E Smith (Edenbridge) 7; (4) Alfred Milner (Manchester) 6; (5-6) J H Brown, E Chambers 4½; (7) H B Howard 4; (8) A Terrett 2; (9) C Berry 1; (10) Mrs R Ford ½.

Major - Ten Day Afternoons (10 entries): (1) D F Wood (Worthing) 8/10; (2) Christopher W Johns (Beeston) 7; (3) Robert C Pentecost (Sydenham) 6½; (4) George Arthur Peck (Rugby) 6; (5) Herbert Francis Gook 5; (6-7) Richard Edward Boxall, R Harrison 3; (8) C D Balding 2½; (9-10) R W Appleby, H Clacy 2.

Major - Six Day Mornings (8 entries): (1-2) W Bainbridge (Wilmslow), W Woodhead 5/7; (3) Ronald A Harris (Shirley) 4½; (4) Ronald Wilson Ives (Leeds) 4; (5) B D Harding 3½; (6) Timothy J de Buriatte 2½; (7) H W S Nichols 2; (8) G H Green 1½.

Major - Six Day Afternoons (8 entries): (1-2) Robert J Castle (Wokingham), Joseph John Lauder (Wimbledon) 6/7; (3) Rev. Henry Middleton Blackett (Hastings) 5; (4) Leslie E Vine (Eastleigh) 4; (5) H E Druce 3; (6) L Stephens 2½; (7) George Albert Toynton 1½; (8) E D Ovenden 0.

Major - Five Day Mornings (6 entries): (1) Josiah E Haynes (Cheam) 4½/5; (2) Michael Edward Brigden (Oxford) 3½; (3) T W White (Guildford) 3; (4-5) Raymond Bott, F Wood 1½; (6) Leslie Alexander Jonas Fainlight (Hove) 1.

Major - Five Day Afternoons (6 entries): (1) Julian P Simpole (Brighton) 4½/5; (2) P C Owen (Surbiton) 3; (3-4) R E Hopkins (Epsom), Leslie E Vine (Eastleigh) 2½; (5) H Moore 2; (6) B D Harding ½.

Major - Weekend (6 entries): (1-2) Peter W Hempson (Bournemouth), Leopold Winter (Brighton) 4/5; (3) Robert Hans Pinner (Richmond) 2½; (4-5) H Langness, L Stephens 2; (6) George Albert Toynton ½.

Major Reserve A - Weekend (6 entries) (1-2) Miss Lesley Elliott Fletcher (Richmond), R Jackson (Bognor Regis) 4/5; (3-4) Vernon Bogdanor (London), Anthony G Frish (Staines) 3; (5) E Cowen 1; (6) R I Ross 0. (Neither the SCCU bulletin nor the CHESS scores for this event make sense as the points don't add up to 15 in either case - what I have given here is an approximation which does add up to 15 - JS)

Major Reserve B - Weekend (6 entries): (1) Lionel Frederick George Wright (Lewes) 4½/5; (2) William Frederick Everest (Brighton) 4; (3) G L Pond 3; (4-5) Miss Elsie Grace Coulson, J Pounce 1½; (6) G Biggs ½.

Minor - Weekend (6 entries): (1-2) H Haywood (Blackburn), Peter J B Wilson (Croydon) 4/5; (3) Charles Gammans (Shoreham, brother of Miss Anne Hilda Gammans) 3½; (4) Miss K M Northcliffe (W Dulwich) 2; (5) M Negus 1; (6) Neil A Frish (London) ½.

First Class - Six Day Mornings (8 entries): (1) A Archer (Kidgrove) 6½/7; (2) John A Miller Croydon 5½; (3) Vernon Bogdanor (London) 4½; (4) B M Winchurch 4; (5) William Harlow Mabbs (Orpington) 3½; (6) Frederick Charles Shorter (London) 2½; (7) Miss P Renwick 1½; (8) A E Blades 0.

First Class - Six Day Afternoons (8 entries): (1) William Frederick Everest (Brighton) 6/7; (2) H Harding (Chichester) 5½; (3) P B Flegg (Littlehampton) 4; (4) L N Weaver 3½; (5-6) A Bamford, Miss E Whyte 3; (7) J W Renton 2; (8) Miss Elsie Grace Coulson 1.

First Class - Five Day Mornings (6 entries): (1) J Moutrie 4½/5; (2) William Harlow Mabbs (Orpington) 3½; (3-4) Frederick Charles Shorter (London), W J Sugg (Newbury) 3; (5) Harry Starbuck Littlechild 1; (6) H Thompson 0.

First Class - Five Day Afternoons (6 entries): (1) Peter G Wann (Coulsdon) 5; (2) J E C Grant (Portsmouth) 3½; (3) Miss E Elliott (Stockbridge) 3; (4) Alan Frederick Garner 2½; (5) Miss E Whyte 1; (6) Francis Marcus Mylechreest 0.

Second Class - Six Day Mornings (8 entries): (1-2) R St John Hawkins (Newbury), Peter J B Wilson (Croydon) 5½/7; (3) G Burnett (Worcester) 5; (4) Lady Gwendoline Herbert 3; (5-6) John Prentice (Hamble), Mrs H Wilding (Maidstone) 2½; (7-8) Francis Marcus Mylechreest, Mrs Laura Ethel Amelia Start née Whitehouse (London) 2.

Second Class - Six Day Afternoons (8 entries): (1) R J Duckett (Sanderstead) 7/7; (2) R Reid (Battersea) 5½; (3) Miss Shirley Mann (Exeter) 4½; (4-5) G W Gregg, Lawrence W Grumbley 4; (6-8) R N Hardy, Peter Mylechreest, M H Vine 1.

Second Class - Five Day Mornings (6 entries): (1) G Burnett (Worcester) 5/5; (2) R C Twilley (London) 3½; (3) Mrs Laura Ethel Amelia Start née Whitehouse (London) 3; (4) William Edward Henry Bonney (East Grinstead) 2; (5) Mrs Evelyn Bott 1½; (6) Mrs Marie T Bonney 0.

Second Class - Five Day Afternoons (6 entries): (1) W Callow (West Ewell) 5/5; (2) R C Last (Ipswich) 4; (3) G Weiner (Bexleyheath) 3; (4) Miss Shirley Mann (Exeter) 2; (5) A Wellman 1; (6) P J Cross 0.

Lightning Tournament (K.O., 10 seconds a move): Klaus Darga beat Leonard Barden in the final (168 players).

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Date Notes
17 January 2023 First uploaded: 16 games, 1 part-game, crosstable. Also 1 game from a junior simul.
18 January 2023 Added the game P.Kirtlan 0-1 K.Darga (rd 1). Many thanks to Brian Denman.
24 February 2025 Added the seven games played by Geoffrey H James in the SCCU Under-18 Championship, from the Brian Denman collection.