54th Hastings Premier, 28 December 1978 to 14 January 1979
1978/79 Hastings
Premier |
Fed |
Elo |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
13 |
14 |
15 |
Total |
SOS |
| 1 |
Ulf Andersson |
SWE |
2560g |
|
½ |
½ |
½ |
½ |
½ |
1 |
½ |
1 |
½ |
1 |
½ |
1 |
½ |
1 |
9½ |
|
| 2 |
Alexander Kochyev |
USSR |
2545m |
½ |
|
½ |
½ |
½ |
½ |
½ |
1 |
½ |
½ |
1 |
1 |
½ |
½ |
½ |
8½ |
57.50 |
| 3 |
Istvan Csom |
HUN |
2510g |
½ |
½ |
|
½ |
½ |
½ |
1 |
0 |
½ |
½ |
1 |
½ |
1 |
½ |
1 |
8½ |
55.00 |
| 4 |
Evgeni Vasiukov |
USSR |
2560g |
½ |
½ |
½ |
|
1 |
½ |
0 |
1 |
0 |
½ |
½ |
1 |
½ |
1 |
1 |
8½ |
54.75 |
| 5 |
Jonathan S Speelman |
ENG |
2470m |
½ |
½ |
½ |
0 |
|
½ |
0 |
1 |
½ |
1 |
½ |
½ |
1 |
1 |
1 |
8½ |
53.75 |
| 6 |
Anatoly Lein |
USA |
2535g |
½ |
½ |
½ |
½ |
½ |
|
½ |
1 |
0 |
½ |
½ |
½ |
½ |
1 |
1 |
8 |
52.25 |
| 7 |
Larry M Christiansen |
USA |
2475g |
0 |
½ |
0 |
1 |
1 |
½ |
|
0 |
½ |
½ |
½ |
1 |
1 |
½ |
1 |
8 |
50.50 |
| 8 |
A Jonathan Mestel |
ENG |
2475m |
½ |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
0 |
½ |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
8 |
47.50 |
| 9 |
Peter Biyiasas |
CAN |
2485m |
0 |
½ |
½ |
1 |
½ |
1 |
½ |
1 |
|
0 |
½ |
½ |
½ |
1 |
0 |
7½ |
53.00 |
| 10 |
William R Hartston |
ENG |
2485m |
½ |
½ |
½ |
½ |
0 |
½ |
½ |
½ |
1 |
|
½ |
0 |
½ |
1 |
1 |
7½ |
49.25 |
| 11 |
Shaun M Taulbut |
ENG |
2390m |
0 |
0 |
0 |
½ |
½ |
½ |
½ |
0 |
½ |
½ |
|
½ |
½ |
1 |
½ |
5½ |
|
| 12 |
Mihai Suba |
ROU |
2415m |
½ |
0 |
½ |
0 |
½ |
½ |
0 |
0 |
½ |
1 |
½ |
|
0 |
1 |
0 |
5 |
35.25 |
| 13 |
George S Botterill |
WLS |
2390 |
0 |
½ |
0 |
½ |
0 |
½ |
0 |
0 |
½ |
½ |
½ |
1 |
|
0 |
1 |
5 |
30.75 |
| 14 |
John A Peters |
ENG |
2475 |
½ |
½ |
½ |
0 |
0 |
0 |
½ |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
1 |
4 |
|
| 15 |
Amikam Balshan |
ISR |
2430 |
0 |
½ |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
½ |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
3 |
|
Average Elo: 2481, Category 10, GM norm = 9½, IM norm = 6½
Hastings Challengers 1978/79 (28 December 1978 - 7 January 1979)
| Rank |
1978/79 Hastings Challengers |
Total |
| 1 |
Israel Zilber (ISR) |
8/10 |
| 2 |
Anthony C Kosten (ENG) |
7½ |
| 3-9 |
Bert F Enklaar (NED), Zahiruddin Farooqui (PAK), Victor W Knox (ENG), Ingo Lentze (FRG), Michael A Pagden (ENG), Paul van der Sterren (NED), Walter Wittmann (AUT) |
7 |
| 10-14 |
Murray G Chandler (NZL), Mark L Hebden (ENG), Gerhard Kiefer (FRG), Bachar Kouatly (FRA), Timothy J Upton (SCO) |
6½ |
| 15-24 |
Chris W Baker (ENG), David H Cummings (ENG), Leonhard Hofland (NED), Miss Sheila Jackson (ENG), Malcolm J Lightfoot (ENG), Meindert van der Linde (NED), Alan H Perkins (ENG), John C Pigott (ENG), Francisco Javier Sanz Alonso (ESP), Timothy Taylor (USA) |
6 |
| 25-35 |
Karlheinz Bachmann (FRG), Paul V Byway (ENG), Glenn C Flear (ENG), Clive A Frostick (ENG), H S Gonsalez, Aldo Haik (FRA), Graham D Hillyard (ENG), Hugh Dugald Macpherson (ENG), Kenneth I Norman (ENG), Gerhard Schwalbe (FRG), S Siegel |
5½ |
| 36-50 |
Michael E Binks (ENG), Ulrich Christoffel (FRG), Gary M Clark (ENG), Christopher M Cooley (ENG), John C Hawksworth (ENG), Julian M Hodgson (ENG), Richard F Holmes (ENG), Glenn E J Lambert (ENG), Geoffrey W Lawton (ENG), Alan Phillips (ENG), Thomas Pioch (FRG), Ralf Runau (FRG), M Paul Townsend (ENG), Paul Troeger (FRG), Jan Vertesi (FRG) |
5 |
| 51-62 |
Matthias Deutschmann (FRG), Oliver A Jackson (ENG), Jonathan Kinlay (ENG), Alan J Norris (SCO), Mark J L Orr (IRL), John T Pitcher (ENG), Charles Salameh (LEB), Volker Schlick (FRG), M Schwickert (FRG), Luiz C T da Silva (BRA), Peter J Sowray (ENG), Tony M Williams (ENG) |
4½ |
| 63-70 |
Richard A Beach (ENG), John W Branford (ENG), Nigel R Davies (ENG), Axel H Derikum (FRG), Tom Farrand (ENG), Robert Gruchacz (USA), Peter Robinson (ENG), D Tan |
4 |
| 71-79 |
Richard L Britton (ENG), Miss Susan L Caldwell (ENG), Michael Dubeck (FRG), John A Hudson (USA), Antonie Pieter Luchtmeijer (NED), Douglas G A Shallcross (ENG), Laszlo Szabo (jnr, HUN), H Turner, Meng Leong Wong (SGA) |
3½ |
| 80 |
Paul Spiller (AUS) |
3 |
| 81-84 |
Arnold van't Hof (NED), Fred Just (FRG), G Kemper, Richard H K Mann (ENG) |
2½ |
| 85 |
J Schroder |
2 |
1978/79 Hastings: Other Sections
Main A: (1) Ronald F A Harman 8/9; (2) Alan H Prizant 7½; (3) Alan N Morris 6; (4-8) J Bachmayer, Raymond J Gamble, Paul F Habershon, Trefor F Thynne, K Wegener 5½; (9-12) W Bahe, R Hofman, U Jensen, J E Stada 5; (13-19) Stuart C Conquest, Peter A Harris, Karl-Adolf Hoewel (FRG), Adrian Jackson, Peter G Moore, Joseph M Soesan, J Zeller 4½; (20-22) G Dyballa, R E Gibbons, David W Murphy 4; (23-25) Jonathan J Ady, Detlef Doell (FRG), John A Gorman 3½; (26-28) Percy B Cook, Adrian P R Lewis, Miss Hanneke van Parreren (NED) 3; (29) Dr. Reinhard Cherubim (FRG) 2½; (30) M Dannett 2½/6; (31) Hans Berrevoets (NED) 2; (32) Geoffrey Neil Stokes 2/4.
Main B: (1) Timothy Headlong 7/9; (2) Nasser M Abbasi (USA) 6½; (3-4) R Clark, G J Mason 6; (5-8) Roger Hardy, Lucien P Mouillaux (FRA), Colin L Ridley, Mrs Dinah M Wright [Norman] 5½; (9-11) M Spies, J W Versloot, R A Walker 5; (12-18) Hans Otto Hoefer (FRG), W Jongeneel, P Koenig, Leslie T Melvin, George W Rutland, H Tassell, G Wagner 4½; (19-22) J Jarvis, W Spatschek, Alan Forrest Stobo, K-H Timpe 4; (23) Leigh A Trangmar 3½; (24) R Rathenov 2½; (25) R G Pike 1½; (26) Richard W O'Brien 1/3; (27) Walter Robert Rayner ½/2 (who collapsed and died on the morning of 31 December 1978 on his way to the third round, aged 66).
Main C: (1-2) K Beer, P Tobczewski 7/9; (3) Mrs Marian R Stada 6½; (4-7) T Ardin, Miss Escudero, A M Jenkins, R C Shilling 6; (8-9) R Quaye, M Turner 5½; (10-15) William Bainbridge, David A Knox, K A Lucas, R W Parsons, Ronald E Rushbrook, F Turner 5; (16-18) John R Cotterell, D R Harris, P B Sargeaunt 4½; (19-23) E Chambers, Henry G Crews, D Kennedy, Truman V Parrott, R S Thornton 4; (24-27) Mrs Olive Chataway, Frank Thomas Comber, Chris Hann, Neville H Twitchell 3½; (28-30) Patrick Albert Baldwin, J Krause, B Ward 3; (31-32) Miss M Daniel, Gregory O J Melitus 1.
Xmas A: (1) J Andersen 4½/5; (2-4) Ronald A Harris, Robert C Lynn, Ian D Thompson 4; (5) Peter W Hempson 3½; (6-10) G M Brown, Rev. David J Casiot, Otto H Hardy, Robert S McFarland, Timothy W Pelling 3; (11-16) B Behnke, Paul Carey, Paul Griffiths, Roland A Gronau, Peter R Kings, B H Richards 2½; (17-19) John G Collins, Dominic R Lawson, Michael J Rose 2; (20-23) P E Barnard, C W Bryan, E Houghton, E H Jarain 1½; (24) F Fegebank ½; (25) A G Walker ½/4.
Xmas B: (1) Michael Kerridge 5/5; (2-4) R Bachmann, N Schnell, James M Wheeler 3½; (5-9) Sydney R Capsey, P L Cook, P J Dyson, George V Glover, Michael F Redmond 3; (10-12) A Gray, B Morris, U Siegmund 2½; (13-14) A Abrongui, C Green 2; (15) M Sielk 2/4; (16-19) Nigel W Dennis, D Diederichsen, W H Norris, J Parker 1½; (20) F W Bradbury 0.
Xmas C: (1) P Manning 4½/5; (2) C R B Young 4; (3-7) D M Cleasby, Charles Conquest, David Terence Fairbank, P I Piper, T B
Towner 3; (8-11) D Adams, R W Johnson, Ronald Herbert Saunders, R A Stanford 2½; (12) D Law 2½/4; (13-16) Roger L Baker, P Ganszczyk, J W Hatton, S D Rowson 2; (17) J Hobden 2/4; (18-19) S A Napier, A I Wilson 1½.
Xmas D: (1) P Escudero 4½/5; (2) A J L Wade 4; (3-4) D J Fowler, S C Sellick 3½; (5-9) W N Addison, John C Calvert, Eric Wilfred Knapp, E Newham, Miss Christine S Nicholson 3; (10-12) J Bull, C A Jewell, B G Stevens 2½; (13-15) R J Gouldsworthy, I Phillips, M Veck 2; (16) J J Greenwood 2/4; (17-18) G Murray, C G Pellett 1½; (19-20) G Garcia Cruz, J F S Learner 1½/4; (21) M Holloway 1/4; (22) L White 0.
New Year A: (1-2) Michael P Cook, Ian D Thompson 4/5; (3-8) Arthur Hall, Peter W Hempson, Peter R Kings, B Morris, J W Roles, Robert P Ross 3; (9-13) P L Cook, Geoffrey Daw, J C Dufraisse, Rodney E James, A Philip Primett 2; (14-15) Sydney R Capsey, H Trevor Jones 1½; (16) Raymond J Kearsley 1.
New Year B: (1-3) J G Cooper, H D Nolden, Brian H Turner 4/5; (4-6) Bryan Allen Fewell, J Hobdem, J Parker 3½; (7-9) J C H Herring, W H Norris, C R Young 3; (10-12) Roger L Baker, G S Coxhead, E D Moller 2½; (13-17) T J Bancroft, I L Damen, C H G Evill, David Terence Fairbank, M B Latey 2; (18-20) M A Bryant, Mrs Iris Louisa F Morris, P W Sandiford 1½; (21) W de Jong 1; (22) J H Ward ½/4
New Year C: (1) Simon J Roe 4½/5; (2-3) S G Kirby, A J L Wade 4; (4) C Wheeler 3½; (5-11) J M Bancroft, G Burnett, R D Ellis, F H Hill, Sir John Latey, E Mitchell, M J Rice 3; (12-15) R A Boulton, A Elkan, A D Harvey, P Nolan 2½; (16-19) Mrs S Beer, Mrs E Crowe, J Herring, R T Pugh 2; (20-21) A N Cornish, K S Reed 1½; (22-23) T Herring, A D Thomas 1.
Third Week A: (1-2) Adrian Jackson, Luiz T A da Silva (BRA) 4½/6; (3) Timothy Headlong 4; (4-7) Stanley E E Cranmer, Robert P Ross, Kevin J Thurlow, Mrs Dinah M Wright [Norman] 3½; (8-9) Stuart C Conquest, Ronald G Rusha 3; (10-13) Paul Carey, A Jenkins, Geoffrey W Naldrett, Jack A Speigel 2½; (14) Geoffrey Daw 2; (15) Brian H Turner 1½; (16) A Hickling 1,
Third Week B: (1) J G Cooper 5½/6; (2) D Browne 5; (3-4) A Matthews, Ronald E Rushbrook 4; (5-7) Bryan Allen Fewell, R M Morgan, John David Howard Nicholas 3½; (8-11) D Kennedy, M Latham, Victor S J Litvin, Rev. J G Whitehead 3; (12-13) Francis Norman Copping, Truman V Parrott 2½; (14-16) E Chambers, R D Pike, P A Statham 2; (17-18) Miss E Coulson, P Dawson 1.
File Updated
| Date |
Notes |
| Previously |
Uploaded as part of the Hastings collection some time ago. |
| 14 June 2025 |
105 games plus 36 from other sections, crosstables and results. |
| 15 June 2025 |
Added two games from the Main A section: (1) S Conquest 1-0 D Doell; (2) J Soesan 1-0 A P R Lewis. Both are from the Brian Denman collection, for which many thanks. |
| 15 June 2025 |
Added another game from the Challengers: T Pioch 1-0 C W Baker. Many thanks to Ulrich Tamm for sending the game. |
