55th Hastings Premier, 28 December 1979 to 14 January 1980

1979/80 Hastings Premier		Fed	Elo	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	Total	SOS
1	Ulf Andersson	SWE	2560g	&;	½	½	½	½	½	½	1	0	½	1	1	1	1	1	½	10	70.50
2	John D M Nunn	ENG	2500g	½	&;	½	½	½	½	½	½	1	½	½	1	1	1	½	1	10	69.50
3	Sergey Makarichev	USSR	2500g	½	½	&;	½	½	½	½	½	½	½	½	1	½	½	1	1	9
4	Tamaz Giorgadze	USSR	2535g	½	½	½	&;	0	½	½	½	1	½	½	½	½	½	1	1	8½	59.25
5	Jonathan S Speelman	ENG	2470m	½	½	½	1	&;	½	0	0	1	½	½	½	0	1	1	1	8½	59.00
6	Anatoly Lein	USA	2535g	½	½	½	½	½	&;	0	0	0	1	1	1	½	1	½	1	8½	58.75
7	Vladimir Liberzon	ISR	2515g	½	½	½	½	1	1	&;	1	0	½	½	½	½	½	0	½	8	62.00
8	Larry M Christiansen	USA	2475g	0	½	½	½	1	1	0	&;	1	½	½	0	1	½	½	½	8	59.25
9	Nigel D Short	ENG	2260	1	0	½	0	0	1	1	0	&;	½	1	0	1	1	½	½	8	57.75
10	Michael F Stean	ENG	2540g	½	½	½	½	½	0	½	½	½	&;	½	½	0	1	1	1	8	54.75
11	Yasser Seirawan	USA	2485m	0	½	½	½	½	0	½	½	0	½	&;	1	½	½	1	1	7½
12	Vladimir Raicevic	YUG	2440g	0	0	0	½	½	0	½	1	1	½	0	&;	1	0	1	1	7
13	Peter Biyiasas	CAN	2485g	0	0	½	½	1	½	½	0	0	1	½	0	&;	0	1	1	6½
14	Israel Zilber	ISR	2410	0	0	½	½	0	0	½	½	0	0	½	1	1	&;	0	½	5	35.25
15	A Jonathan Mestel	ENG	2475m	0	½	0	0	0	½	1	½	½	0	0	0	0	1	&;	1	5	32.75
16	Robert Bellin	ENG	2425m	½	0	0	0	0	0	½	½	½	0	0	0	0	½	0	&;	2½

Average Elo: 2476, Category 10, GM norm = 10, IM = 7, FM = 5. IM norm achieved by Nigel Short.

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Hastings Challengers 1979/80 (28 December 1979 - 7 January 1980)

Rank	1979/80 Hastings Challengers	Total
1	Luismar Brito (Brazil)	8/10
2-4	Bert F Enklaar (NED), Alan J Norris (Edinburgh SCO), Timothy Taylor (USA)	7½
5-8	Mark L Condie (SCO), Nigel R Davies (Southport ENG), Arndt Miltner (FRG), Walter Wolf (FRG)	7
9-13	Reinhold Burbach (FRG), Peter G Large (Orpington ENG), Andrew D Martin (East Ham ENG) , Graham Morrison (Glasgow SCO), William N Watson (London ENG)	6½
14-22	Milan Bajovic (YUG), Bernard Cafferty (Birmingham ENG), Julian Gralka (POL), Hans-Joerg Grupe (FRG), Mark L Hebden (Leicester ENG), Mark J L Orr (Stockport IRL), Stephen J Shutler (Poole ENG), Peter J Sowray (London ENG), R Westphal (FRG)	6
23-36	Michael J Franklin (ENG), John A Hudson (USA), Milan Ilijc (YUG), Gerhard Kiefer (FRG), Daneil J King (ENG), Jonathan Kinlay (ENG), Ralf Laven (FRG), Lincoln Lucena (BRA), H Muller, Manfred Nimtz (FRG), Kenneth I Norman (ENG), Alan H Perkins (ENG), Peter Robinson (ENG), Timothy J Upton (SCO)	5½
37-48	B van Antwerpen, Volker Brendel (FRG), Neil F Dickenson (ENG), Alexander Dietrich (FRG), Shaun G Finlayson (ENG), Geoffrey H James (ENG), Ingo Lentze (FRG), Malcolm J Lightfoot (ENG), Alan Reid (SCO), Marco A Silva Morales (COL), Kevin J Wicker (ENG), Ivan Zivanovic (YUG)	5
49-56	Frank Behrhorst (FRG), Patrick G Donovan (ENG), Jeremiah Donahue (USA), Michael Dubeck (FRG), Oliver A Jackson (ENG), Anthony C Kosten (ENG), Toni Sandmeier (FRG), Douglas George A Shallcross (ENG)	4½
57-68	Mark Stephen Ardin (ENG), David H Cummings (ENG), Paul F Habershon (ENG), R Hofman, Michael Kerridge (ENG), Andrew P Lewis (ENG), David W Murphy (ENG), Leontxo García Olasagasti (ESP), Laurence J Pinto (ENG), Thomas Pioch (FRG), Rainer Schlenker (FRG), Paul A Wallace (IRL)	4
69-74	Stuart C Conquest (ENG), Hans-Joerg Cordes (FRG), Zahiruddin Farooqui (PAK), Arnold van t'Hof (NED), T Kasper, Ian D Thompson (ENG)	3½
75-77	Ronald F A Harman (ENG), Luiz Tavares da Silva (BRA), Nicole Tagnon (FRA)	3
78-79	Gisbert Jacoby (FRG), H Turner	2½
80	Michel Aristegui (FRA)	1½
81	Miss Claude Santoy (FRA)	1
82	Alan Phillips (ENG) - withdrew ill in round 2. There were several last-round withdrawals.	½

1979/80 Hastings: Other Sections

Main A: (1) Jürgen Sehrt (FRG) 7½/9; (2-4) Franz Plank (FRG), Alan H Prizant, Terence J Stuttard 6; (5-7) Jürgen Brustkern (FRG), M Cygielman, Peter G Moore 5½; (8-9) Achim Heinl (FRG), Jim E Stada (NED) 5; (10-14) Geoffrey M Brown, Richard C P Freeman, John A Gorman, Marco Jaeckle (FRG), Klaus Schillinger (FRG) 4½; (15-19) W Arudt, Josef Bachmayer (AUT), Raymond J Gamble, C Hoff, J Wernhart 4; (20-22) Dr. Reinhard Cherubim (FRG), A Novik, Robert P Ross 3; (23) B Richards 2½; (24) D Hess 1.

Main B: (1) Hans Karl Wegener (FRG) 7/9; (2-3) Ian R Dutton, S McKenzie 6½; (4) G J Mason 6; (5) Heinrich Eisterer (AUT) 5½; (6-7) R Schneider, Geoffrey Neil Stokes 5; (8-12) B Bopp, Karl Adolf Hoewel (FRG), Richard W O'Brien, J Versloot, Mrs Dinah M Wright [Norman] 4½; (13-17) Percy B Cook, Hans Otto Hoefer (FRG), Gerhard Holzer (FRG), R Walker, M Yianni 4; (18-22) K Beer, Hans Berrevoets (NED), Ulrich Kuempers (FRG), G Wagner, Marian Stada (Ned) 3.

Main C: (1-2) G Huttner, S Riordan 6½/9; (3-4) Franz Kuenzner(?), Miss Barbara Pernici (ITA) 6; (5-6) B Fischer, C Young 5½; (7-10) W Heil, Paul Koenig (FRG), Alan Forrest Stobo, M(ark V?) Taylor 5; (11-13) Ammar Abrougui (FRG), Nigel W Dennis, P Gronau 4½; Detlev Birnbaum (FRA), Alan Michael Gregg, Colin L Ridley 4; (14) R(eginald William?) Stevenson 4 (withdrew ill); (15-16) R Clark, Leigh Alan Trangmar 3½; (17-20) Heinrich Hoenig (FRG), H Mantel, B Rathenau, A Sommerfield 3; (21) H Kratz 2½.

Main D: (1) Siegfried Zoernpfenning (AUT) 8½/9; (2-3) B Morris, R Parsons 6; (4-6) Peter Tobczewski (FRG), F Turner, R Woods 5½; (7-10) Raymond J Kearsley, R C Shilling, K H Timpe, Stewart Wavell 5; (11-17) William Bainbridge, Sydney R Capsey, Chris Hann, Geoffrey William Naldrett, J A Nightingale, M Pernici, B Ward 4½; (18-19) John Richard C Cotterell, Jean Claude Dufraisse (FRA) 4; (20) Ronald E Rushbrook 3; (21) R Quaye 2½; (22-24) Henry G Crews, M Turner, R Zahner 2.

Main E: (1-2) M Lotz, Philip B Sargeaunt 7/9; (3-4) K Freeman, T Kleman 6; (5-7) Mrs S Beer, Mrs Olive Chataway, P Smith 5½; (8-12) R Barraclough, P Klockner, Eric Wilfred Knapp, F Kugel, H Peters 5; (13-16) E Chambers, Francis Norman Copping, M Kotter, H Tassell 4½; (17-21) Patrick Albert Baldwin, M Hennings, Robin B W Moss, Truman V Parrott, William A Shutler 4; (22-23) John C Calvert, A S (Tony?) O'Broin 3½; (24) Miss D Sadlowski 3; (25) Miss M Daniel 1½.

Xmas Special A: (1) Peter W Hempson 4½/5; (2-3) M Reiber, John N Sugden 4; (4-6) Paul Carey, Michael P Cook, Harry Lamb 3½; (7-9) Douglas M Bryson (SCO), Ronald A Harris, Simon C le Blancq 3; (7-13) P Barnard, David J Faulkner, Eric Houghton, F Brian Ings, Rev. Peter R Kings, Adrian P R Lewis, Leslie T Melvin 2½; (14-17) Otto H Hardy, Jan H Hasselt, H Trevor Jones, Peter Rawcliffe 2; (18-20) Anthony Aherne (IRL), Kenneth F H Inwood, Hans Dieter Nolden (FRG) 1½; (21) V Dragovic 1; (22 M Augstein ½. (A Macdonald, M Tripkovic and L Houston withdrew)

Xmas Special B: (1) Christophe Bouton (FRA) 4½/5; (2) Michael Goll 4; (3-5) C W Bryan, J Doyle, David Mesman (NED) 3½; (6-9) Roy W Heppenstall, A Hitchcock, Michael F Redmond, Robert Whateley 3; (10-13) R Johnson, D Law, J Parker, P Torres 2½; (14-20) V Cadagan, Paul Griffiths, Miss Lynne G P Houston, Lucien Mouillaux, Philip B Pinto, P Rowland, N Wijngaarden 2; (21-22) David Terence Fairbank, Jack Alfred Speigel 1½; (23) C Wheeler 1.

Xmas Special C: (1) P Cook 4½/5; (2-4) I Damen, D Fowler, Ronald H Saunders 3½; (5-7) P Ganszczyk, G Glover, A Wade 3; (8-12) Roger L Baker, J Bull, Frank Thomas Comber, K Reed, Mrs C Roodzant¹ (NED) 2½; (13) T Towner 2; (14-17) R Boulton, Mrs Iris Louisa F Morris, C Sapuit, R Thornton 1½; (18) S Napier ½. ¹ Catharina Roodzant (1896-1999), playing aged 83. Her grandson David Mesman took part in the Xmas Special B tournament. Linked article.

Xmas Special D: (1) Melvin N Sutton 5/5; (2-6) T Black, Gregory Owen J Melitus, E Newham, D Stamp, M Veck 3; (7-8) Marc A Bryant, J Greenwood 2½; (9-10) G Burnett, I Pierson 2; (11) Miss M Goodwin (withdrew) 2; (12-13) M Beck, D Bunker 1; (14) G Garcia Cruz 1 (withdrew).

New Year Special A: (1-2) Michael P Cook, Michael F Redmond 4/5; (3) Rev. Peter R Kings 3½; (4-5) P Cook, Jack Alfred Speigel 3; (6-10) David Terence Fairbank, Jan H Hasselt, Roy W Heppenstall, J Parker, Simon J Roe 2½; (11-14) Martin A Barkwill, P Barnard, Michael Goll, Robert Whateley 2; (15-16) Roger L Baker, A Sharp 1.

New Year Special B: (1) J Dennis 4/5; (2-4) T Bancroft, D Cleasby, S Rowson 3½; (5-7) J Greenwood, J Herring, Sir John Latey 3; (8-10) A Harvey, S Kirby, E Mitchell 2½; (11) M Rice 2; (12) A Elkan 1½; (13-14) M Latey, A Thomas 1; (15) R Thornton ½ (retired).

New Year Special C: (1-2) J Bancroft, Geoffrey Daw 4/5; (3) Marc A Bryant 3½; (4-9) J Herring, F Hill, Gregory Owen J Melitus, A Neal, R Pugh, A Wade 3; (10-11) G Murray, B Stevens 2½; (12-13) G Burnett, D Thomas 2; (14-16) Miss J Parel, P Sandiford, W van Steenhoven 1½; (17-18) W Hampton, T Herring 1.

Third Week Special A: (1-4) Stephen D Cunliffe, Ian R Dutton, Dr. Luiz Tavares da Silva (BRA), Mrs Dinah M Wright [Norman] 4½/6; (5-6) Josef Bachmayer (AUT), Michael P Cook 4; (7-13) Bryan Allen Fewell, Dr. R Gaubba, Lawrence Alfred J Glyde, Ronald E Rushbrook, Jack Alfred Speigel, Alan Forrest Stobo, John Tiplady 3; (14-16) T Barrett, John David Howard Nicholas, Ronald G Rusha 2½; (17-19) David Terence Fairbank, R Schneider, P Wood 2; (20) R Zahner ½.

Third Week Special B: (1) Ole Bay-Petersen 5½/6; (2) M Stanley 4½; (3-6) Geoffrey Daw, J Fleming, D Maclain, Raymond Wynarczyk 4; (7-10) J Greenwood, Gregory Owen J Melitus, Truman V Parrott, B Ward 3½; (11-13) Patrick Albert Baldwin, Geoffrey Shervill Coxhead, Peter A Statham 3; (14-17) E Chambers, O Fox, Eric Wilfred Knapp, R Morgan 2½; (18-20) P Dawson, J Ward, Rev. J Whitehead 2; (21) Miss Elsie Grace Coulson 1.

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