| Hastings 1960/61 |
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The 36th Hastings Congress featured these players: Leonard William Barden Igor Bondarevsky
Bernard Cafferty
Peter Clarke
Svetozar Gligoric
Arnold Yorwarth Green
John Littlewood
Kenneth W Lloyd
Bogdan Sliwa
Laszlo Szabo. The turning point came in round five. The three GMs (Gligoric, Bondarevsky and Szabo) were tied for first with 3 points, while IM Sliwa was just behind with 2.5. The round saw Bondarevsky drawn by tail-ender Cafferty and Szabo suffer defeat at the hands of Clarke, while Gligoric started a little three-game winning streak at the expense of Sliwa. Soon Gligoric had a full point lead, which he maintained until the end. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 Pts
1 Gligoric X = = = = 1 1 1 1 1 7.0
2 Bondarevsky = X = 1 = = 1 1 = = 6.0
3 Szabo = = X 0 0 = 1 1 1 = 5.0
4 Lloyd = 0 1 X = = = = 1 = 5.0
5 Clarke = = 1 = X = 0 = = = 4.5
6 Littlewood 0 = = = = X = 0 1 1 4.5
7 Barden 0 0 0 = 1 = X 1 = 1 4.5
8 Sliwa 0 0 0 = = 1 0 X 1 1 4.0
9 Green 0 = 0 0 = 0 = 0 X 1 2.5
10 Cafferty 0 = = = = 0 0 0 0 X 2.0
Progressive scores: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
1 Gligoric 0.5 1.5 2.5 3.0 4.0 5.0 6.0 6.5 7.0
2 Bondarevsky 0.5 1.0 2.0 3.0 3.5 4.0 5.0 5.5 6.0
3 Szabo 1.0 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.0 3.5 4.5 5.0 5.0
4 Lloyd 0.5 1.0 1.0 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0 5.0
5 Clarke 0.5 1.0 1.0 1.5 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0 4.5
6 Littlewood 0.5 1.5 2.0 2.0 3.0 3.5 3.5 4.0 4.5
7 Barden 0.5 0.5 1.5 1.5 2.0 3.0 3.0 4.0 4.5
8 Sliwa 0.0 0.5 1.5 2.5 2.5 3.0 3.0 3.0 4.0
9 Green 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5
10 Cafferty 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.0
Original collection: Game Collection: Hastings 1960/61, by User: Phony Benoni.
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Mar-16-19
 | | GrahamClayton: Excellent performance by Lloyd to finish top British player, equal with Szabo and ahead of Sliwa in what appears to be his only appearance in an international tournament. |
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| Jun-09-21 | | Nosnibor: How did A. Y. Green qualify to play in this event ? |
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Jun-09-21
 | | perfidious: <Nosnibor>, even Green's biography at https://mannchess.org.uk/People/Gre... does not elucidate how Green managed to earn the right to participate, though noting he had played in numerous British championships throughout the 1950s and won a Hastings Reserve section in 1956. |
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Jun-09-21
 | | MissScarlett: How did B. Cafferty qualify to play in this event? |
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Jun-09-21
 | | roberts partner: Cafferty qualified by winning the top Premier Reserves section the previous year. As far as I recall, Green was a late substitute. Smyslov had been announced to play, but dropped out probably trhough illness. |
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Jun-09-21
| | MissScarlett: How did L. W. Barden qualify to play in this event? |
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Jun-09-21
 | | Tabanus: Middlesex County Times, 2 Dec. 1960, p. 10:
<In the annual Hastings Christmas Congress, the contestants for the Premier are likely to be Barden, Cafferty. Clarke, and Lloyd (K.W.) (England), Aaron (India), Cholmov, and Bondarevski (U.S.S.R.), Szabo (Hungary), Gligoric (Yugoslavia), and Sliwa (Poland).> Birmingham Daily Post, 29 Dec. 1960, p. 11:
<After five hours play and 39 moves. Bernard Cafferty, a Birmingham schoolmaster, lost his Premier tournament game to A. Y. Green, of London. Cafferty, expecting to meet Kholmov, was told 24 hours before that Bronstein was coming instead. Bronstein, too, failed to arrive and the Londoner, Green, volunteered to fill the breach at the last moment. Cafferty lost to Green whom he would usually beat.> |
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Jun-09-21
| | roberts partner: <MissScarlett>How did L. W. Barden qualify to play in this event? Apart from Cafferty and Green, all the other eight players were invitees. That was normal at Hastings over many decades, just the one qualfying place for the winner of the Premier Reserves Major (later renamed the Challengers). |
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Jun-09-21
| | perfidious: From the accounts cited by <Tabanus>, it appears there was more uncertainty than usual surrounding the lineup; my recollection is that in those days, one could invite Soviet players and often have someone turn up other than those originally slated to play. |
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