Hastings 1921/22

Hastings 1921/22
Compiled by suenteus po 147

The second Hastings Christmas Chess festival was a continuation of the same event held the previous year. Like then, the tournament was conducted through Christmas and past the New Year. However rather than four British chess masters playing double rounds, this edition saw the field doubled to eight chess master and amateurs playing a single round robin. Another change is that one foreign chess master, Borislav Kostic of Yugoslavia, was invited to join the British participants. This would begin a long-standing tradition of British chess tournaments won by foreign chess masters as Kostic blew away the field, finishing with an astounding perfect score of 7 wins out of 7 rounds. As you can see only about half of the games still exist on record, with the others being lost, most likely forever. My guess is that the bulletin or other publication that originated the scores for this event only felt like publishing the best two games of each round (rounds 5 and 6 being the only exceptions) and therefore we lose 12 games to the sands of time. The results of every game survived, however, so it was possible to reconstruct the final standings and a crosstable which follows:

1st Kostic 7/7 * 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

2nd Price 4½/7 0 * 0 1 ½ 1 1 1

3rd Mackenzie 4/7 0 1 * 0 1 ½ ½ 1

=4th Sergeant 3½/7 0 0 1 * 0 1 1 ½

=4th Yates 3½/7 0 ½ 0 1 * 1 0 1

=6th Norman 2½/7 0 0 ½ 0 0 * 1 1

=6th Scott 2½/7 0 0 ½ 0 1 0 * 1

8th O'Hanlon ½/7 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 *

Round One
B Kostic vs R Scott, 1921
(D15) Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, 61 moves, 1-0
Yates vs H E Price, 1921
(D15) Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, 38 moves, 1/2-1/2
Round Two
G Norman vs Yates, 1921
(C21) Center Game, 20 moves, 0-1
R Scott vs H E Price, 1921
(D37) Queen's Gambit Declined, 30 moves, 0-1
Round Three
A J Mackenzie vs B Kostic, 1921
(A83) Dutch, Staunton Gambit, 40 moves, 0-1
R Scott vs E G Sergeant, 1921
(D37) Queen's Gambit Declined, 24 moves, 0-1
Round Four
B Kostic vs Yates, 1921
(D02) Queen's Pawn Game, 66 moves, 1-0
G Norman vs R Scott, 1921
(C21) Center Game, 35 moves, 1-0
Round Five
G Norman vs J O'Hanlon, 1921
(C13) French, 43 moves, 1-0
H E Price vs B Kostic, 1921
(B29) Sicilian, Nimzovich-Rubinstein, 36 moves, 0-1
Yates vs E G Sergeant, 1921
(C83) Ruy Lopez, Open, 33 moves, 1-0
Round Six
B Kostic vs G Norman, 1921
(D46) Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, 19 moves, 1-0
A J Mackenzie vs Yates, 1921
(D53) Queen's Gambit Declined, 60 moves, 1-0
E G Sergeant vs H E Price, 1921
(C66) Ruy Lopez, 19 moves, 0-1
Round Seven
J O'Hanlon vs B Kostic, 1921
(B29) Sicilian, Nimzovich-Rubinstein, 23 moves, 0-1
Yates vs R Scott, 1921
(C49) Four Knights, 58 moves, 0-1

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