Hastings 1945/46

Hastings 1945/46
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In 1945, in the wake of the Second World War, the chess club at Hastings reorganized their year-end international chess congress to commemorate the 50th anniversary of one of the strongest tournaments of the 19th century, originally won by Harry Nelson Pillsbury. Among the participants were former world champion Max Euwe, French grandmaster Savielly Tartakower, and eighty year old Jacques Mieses who had participated in the original tournament fifty years earlier! The rest of the participants were current and future US champions Arnold Denker and Herman Steiner, Swiss champion Martin Christoffel, future London champions James Macrae Aitken, Edward G Sergeant and George Alan Thomas, future Dutch champion Lodewijk Prins, future Swedish champion Nils Johan A Folke Ekstroem, and Paul Devos. Tartakower won with an astounding 9.5/11!

The final standings and crosstable:

1st Tartakower 9.5/11 * 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 =

2nd Ekstroem 9/11 0 * 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

=3rd Euwe 7/11 1 0 * = = 1 = 0 1 = 1 1

=3rd Denker 7/11 0 0 = * 1 = 1 = = 1 1 1

=3rd Steiner 7/11 0 1 = 0 * 1 = 1 0 1 1 1

6th Aitken 6/11 0 0 0 = 0 * = 1 1 1 1 1

7th Prins 5/11 0 0 = 0 = = * 1 1 = 1 0

8th Thomas 4/11 0 0 1 = 0 0 0 * 0 1 = 1

9th Christoffel 3.5/11 0 0 0 = 1 0 0 1 * 0 0 1

10th Mieses 3/11 0 0 = 0 0 0 = 0 1 * = =

=11th Sergeant 2.5/11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 = 1 = * =

=11th Devos 2.5/11 = 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 = = *

Round One
Aitken vs Euwe, 1945
(C82) Ruy Lopez, Open, 30 moves, 0-1
M Christoffel vs G A Thomas, 1945
(C72) Ruy Lopez, Modern Steinitz Defense, 5.O-O, 43 moves, 1-0
Denker vs N Folke Ekstrom, 1945
(D45) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, 34 moves, 0-1
Mieses vs Tartakower, 1945
(C26) Vienna, 32 moves, 0-1
Prins vs E G Sergeant, 1945
(C71) Ruy Lopez, 59 moves, 1-0
H Steiner vs P Devos, 1945
(D17) Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, 16 moves, 1-0
Round Two
M Christoffel vs Prins, 1945
(A16) English, 34 moves, 0-1
P Devos vs Aitken, 1945
(A46) Queen's Pawn Game, 34 moves, 0-1
N Folke Ekstrom vs H Steiner, 1945
(A04) Reti Opening, 34 moves, 0-1
Euwe vs Mieses, 1945
(E60) King's Indian Defense, 35 moves, 1/2-1/2
E G Sergeant vs Denker, 1945
(B60) Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer, 47 moves, 0-1
G A Thomas vs Tartakower, 1945
(C10) French, 33 moves, 0-1
Round Three
Aitken vs N Folke Ekstrom, 1945
(B84) Sicilian, Scheveningen, 60 moves, 0-1
Denker vs M Christoffel, 1945
(A15) English, 39 moves, 1/2-1/2
Mieses vs P Devos, 1945
(B24) Sicilian, Closed, 26 moves, 1/2-1/2
H Steiner vs E G Sergeant, 1945
(D63) Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, 38 moves, 1-0
Tartakower vs Euwe, 1945
(D03) Torre Attack (Tartakower Variation), 45 moves, 0-1
G A Thomas vs Prins, 1945
(C77) Ruy Lopez, 31 moves, 0-1
Round Four
M Christoffel vs H Steiner, 1945
(C89) Ruy Lopez, Marshall, 45 moves, 1-0
P Devos vs Tartakower, 1945
(A47) Queen's Indian, 60 moves, 1/2-1/2
N Folke Ekstrom vs Mieses, 1945
(D08) Queen's Gambit Declined, Albin Counter Gambit, 28 moves, 1-0
Euwe vs G A Thomas, 1945
(D50) Queen's Gambit Declined, 35 moves, 0-1
Prins vs Denker, 1945
(B54) Sicilian, 47 moves, 0-1
E G Sergeant vs Aitken, 1945
(C79) Ruy Lopez, Steinitz Defense Deferred, 64 moves, 0-1
Round Five
Aitken vs M Christoffel, 1945
(C02) French, Advance, 36 moves, 1-0
Denker vs G A Thomas, 1945
(D40) Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch, 23 moves, 1/2-1/2
Euwe vs P Devos, 1945
(D28) Queen's Gambit Accepted, Classical, 35 moves, 1-0
Mieses vs E G Sergeant, 1945
(C45) Scotch Game, 26 moves, 1/2-1/2
H Steiner vs Prins, 1945
(C55) Two Knights Defense, 46 moves, 1/2-1/2
Tartakower vs N Folke Ekstrom, 1945
(B80) Sicilian, Scheveningen, 35 moves, 1-0
Round Six
M Christoffel vs Mieses, 1945
(A35) English, Symmetrical, 28 moves, 0-1
Denker vs H Steiner, 1945
(A13) English, 37 moves, 1-0
N Folke Ekstrom vs Euwe, 1945
(C47) Four Knights, 80 moves, 1-0
Prins vs Aitken, 1945
(C71) Ruy Lopez, 52 moves, 1/2-1/2
E G Sergeant vs Tartakower, 1945
(B02) Alekhine's Defense, 53 moves, 0-1
G A Thomas vs P Devos, 1945
(B24) Sicilian, Closed, 28 moves, 1-0
Round Seven
Aitken vs Denker, 1945
(B74) Sicilian, Dragon, Classical, 28 moves, 1/2-1/2
P Devos vs N Folke Ekstrom, 1945
(A06) Reti Opening, 29 moves, 0-1
Euwe vs E G Sergeant, 1945
(D63) Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, 51 moves, 1-0
Mieses vs Prins, 1945
(B20) Sicilian, 108 moves, 1/2-1/2
Tartakower vs M Christoffel, 1945
(A40) Queen's Pawn Game, 53 moves, 1-0
G A Thomas vs H Steiner, 1945
(C63) Ruy Lopez, Schliemann Defense, 23 moves, 0-1
Round Eight
M Christoffel vs Euwe, 1945
(C29) Vienna Gambit, 24 moves, 0-1
Denker vs Mieses, 1945
(B40) Sicilian, 17 moves, 1-0
N Folke Ekstrom vs G A Thomas, 1945
(D55) Queen's Gambit Declined, 36 moves, 1-0
Prins vs Tartakower, 1945
(B03) Alekhine's Defense, 51 moves, 0-1
E G Sergeant vs P Devos, 1945
(B83) Sicilian, 24 moves, 1/2-1/2
H Steiner vs Aitken, 1945
(D64) Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox, Rubinstein Attack, 41 moves, 1-0
Round Nine
Aitken vs G A Thomas, 1945
(C71) Ruy Lopez, 30 moves, 1-0
P Devos vs M Christoffel, 1945
(A04) Reti Opening, 31 moves, 0-1
N Folke Ekstrom vs E G Sergeant, 1945
(A08) King's Indian Attack, 35 moves, 1-0
Euwe vs Prins, 1945
(A16) English, 44 moves, 1/2-1/2
Mieses vs H Steiner, 1945
(C57) Two Knights, 38 moves, 0-1
Tartakower vs Denker, 1945
(B58) Sicilian, 62 moves, 1-0
Round Ten
Aitken vs Mieses, 1945
(B01) Scandinavian, 52 moves, 1-0
M Christoffel vs N Folke Ekstrom, 1945
(B11) Caro-Kann, Two Knights, 3...Bg4, 32 moves, 0-1
Denker vs Euwe, 1945
(D14) Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Exchange Variation, 20 moves, 1/2-1/2
Prins vs P Devos, 1945
(B63) Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer Attack, 43 moves, 0-1
H Steiner vs Tartakower, 1945
(C13) French, 27 moves, 0-1
G A Thomas vs E G Sergeant, 1945
(C77) Ruy Lopez, 23 moves, 1/2-1/2
Round Eleven
P Devos vs Denker, 1945
(A16) English, 50 moves, 0-1
N Folke Ekstrom vs Prins, 1945
(E60) King's Indian Defense, 36 moves, 1-0
Euwe vs H Steiner, 1945
(D69) Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, Classical, 13.de, 36 moves, 1/2-1/2
Mieses vs G A Thomas, 1945
(B20) Sicilian, 23 moves, 0-1
E G Sergeant vs M Christoffel, 1945
(B02) Alekhine's Defense, 50 moves, 1-0
Tartakower vs Aitken, 1945
(D02) Queen's Pawn Game, 29 moves, 1-0

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