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Hastings 1967/68 The 43rd Hastings Christmas Chess Festival was held at the end of the year 1967. Ten grandmasters and masters were invited to compete in a round robin format at the premier event. The notable participants of this edition included Soviet grandmasters Leonid Stein and Alexey Suetin, World Junior Champion Julio Kaplan, Czechoslovakian grandmaster Vlastimil Hort, Romanian grandmaster Florin Gheorghiu, and British junior master Raymond Keene. The final saw a four way tie for first place among Hort, Gheorghiu, Stein, and Suetin. They each finished undefeated with +3, a full point ahead of Yugoslavian master Predrag Ostojic. Hastings, England, 27 December 1967 - 5 January 1968 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 =1 Hort * ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 6 =1 Gheorghiu ½ * ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 6 =1 Stein ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 6 =1 Suetin ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 6 5 Ostojic 0 ½ ½ ½ * ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 5 6 Kaplan ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ 4 7 Whiteley 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ * ½ ½ ½ 3½ =8 Keene ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ 3 =8 Hartston 0 ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ * 1 3 10 Basman ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 * 2½ Video: https://twitter.com/twitter/statuse... Original collection: Game Collection: Hastings 1967/68, by User: suenteus po 147. Previous: Hastings (1966/67). Next: Hastings (1968/69)  page 2 of 2; games 26-45 of 45  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 26. M Basman vs J Kaplan ½-½ 43 1968 Hastings 1967/68 B43 Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3 27. Hort vs Stein   ½-½ 14 1968 Hastings 1967/68 D79 Neo-Grunfeld, 6.O-O, Main line 28. W Hartston vs Suetin   0-1 72 1968 Hastings 1967/68 B89 Sicilian 29. Keene vs P Ostojic   ½-½ 29 1968 Hastings 1967/68 E12 Queen's Indian 30. A Whiteley vs Gheorghiu   ½-½ 57 1968 Hastings 1967/68 A53 Old Indian 31. Stein vs W Hartston 1-0 35 1968 Hastings 1967/68 A34 English, Symmetrical 32. J Kaplan vs Hort   ½-½ 18 1968 Hastings 1967/68 B08 Pirc, Classical 33. Gheorghiu vs M Basman 1-0 24 1968 Hastings 1967/68 B88 Sicilian, Fischer-Sozin Attack 34. P Ostojic vs A Whiteley   1-0 37 1968 Hastings 1967/68 C05 French, Tarrasch 35. Suetin vs Keene 1-0 62 1968 Hastings 1967/68 B78 Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack, 10.castle long 36. M Basman vs Hort   ½-½ 37 1968 Hastings 1967/68 B12 Caro-Kann Defense 37. W Hartston vs J Kaplan   ½-½ 43 1968 Hastings 1967/68 C82 Ruy Lopez, Open 38. Gheorghiu vs P Ostojic   ½-½ 14 1968 Hastings 1967/68 D37 Queen's Gambit Declined 39. Keene vs Stein 0-1 33 1968 Hastings 1967/68 A15 English 40. A Whiteley vs Suetin   ½-½ 22 1968 Hastings 1967/68 E69 King's Indian, Fianchetto, Classical Main line 41. Stein vs A Whiteley   ½-½ 26 1968 Hastings 1967/68 A07 King's Indian Attack 42. Hort vs W Hartston 1-0 39 1968 Hastings 1967/68 D26 Queen's Gambit Accepted 43. P Ostojic vs M Basman   ½-½ 23 1968 Hastings 1967/68 B32 Sicilian 44. J Kaplan vs Keene   ½-½ 24 1968 Hastings 1967/68 D78 Neo-Grunfeld, 6.O-O c6 45. Suetin vs Gheorghiu   ½-½ 24 1968 Hastings 1967/68 B61 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer, Larsen Variation, 7.Qd2  page 2 of 2; games 26-45 of 45    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2)   Apr-06-18    Cibator: One of the more notorious Hastings tournaments. The four-way tie for first place was deliberately engineered so as to share the prize-money equally among the grandmasters. The root of the trouble was a prize fund that was on the thin side to begin with, and too skewed in its distribution, as the table below makes clear: 1st - UKP250 2nd - UKP100 3rd - UKP50 4th - UKP25 (These sums seem derisory nowadays, but weren't quite that bad in 1968, when UKP25 was a goodish week's salary.) CHESS magazine hit the nail on the head with its comment: "Far too steep a descent. We can recall no other tournament where fourth prize was only one-tenth of first." They went on to remark that the grandmasters weren't going to allow the indignity of one their number going home with only UKP25. Hence the "obviously contrived" final result. Apr-06-18    MissScarlett: I read about this in one of Baruch Wood's columns. I'll try and dig it up. 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