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TOURNAMENT STANDINGS
Hastings 1927/28 Tournament

Savielly Tartakower5.5/7(+5 -1 =1)[games]
Lajos Steiner4.5/6(+4 -1 =1)[games]
Fred Dewhirst Yates4/7(+4 -3 =0)[games]
Edgard Colle3.5/6(+2 -1 =3)[games]
Victor Buerger2.5/4(+2 -1 =1)[games]
George Thomas2/5(+2 -3 =0)[games]
George Norman1/5(+1 -4 =0)[games]
Hans Kmoch1/3(+1 -2 =0)[games]
Edward Guthlac Sergeant1/5(+1 -4 =0)[games]
Reginald Michell0/2(+0 -2 =0)[games]

Chessgames.com Chess Event Description
Hastings 1927/28

The eighth annual Hastings Christmas Chess Festival was held from December 28, 1927 to January 6, 1928. The Premier event was a round robin tournament played by ten chess masters from Great Britain and Europe. Among the participants were Victor Berger, Edgar Colle, Hans Kmoch, Reginald Price Michell, George Marshall Norman, Edward G. Sergeant, Lajos Steiner, Savielly Tartakower, George Alan Thomas, and Frederick Yates. Records are scarce on this tournament as even the score of games are incomplete to this day. What information does exist has been used to assemble the existing games in the order found here. We do know Dr. Tartakower eventually won this tournament, his second consecutive Hastings premier (and third overall), but two of his games as well as sixteen others are lost, perhaps forever. From the final standings and results of all the games I have reconstructed the tournament table below:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 Pts 1 Tartakower * 0 ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 6.5 2 Steiner 1 * ½ 0 ½ 1 1 1 0 1 6.0 3 Colle ½ ½ * ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 0 5.5 4 Berger 0 1 ½ * 1 1 ½ 0 ½ 1 5.5 5 Yates 0 ½ 0 0 * ½ 1 1 1 1 5.0 6 Michell ½ 0 0 0 ½ * 1 1 ½ 1 4.5 7 Kmoch ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 0 * ½ 1 1 4.0 8 Thomas 0 0 0 1 0 0 ½ * 1 1 3.5 9 Sergeant 0 1 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 0 * 1 3.5 10 Norman 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 * 1.0

20 games are unavailable. These include:

Round 1: Berger 1 Steiner, Kmoch 1/2 Colle, Sergeant 1/2 Michell Round 2: Thomas 0 Colle
Round 3: Kmoch 1/2 Berger, Michell 1/2 Yates
Round 4: Colle 1/2 Sergeant, Kmoch 1/2 Thomas, Tartakower 1/2 Michell Round 5: Berger 0 Thomas, Norman 0 Kmoch
Round 6: Steiner 1 Michell
Round 7: Michell 1 Kmoch, Norman 0 Berger, Yates 1/2 Steiner Round 8: Norman 0 Sergeant, Thomas 0 Michell
Round 9: Michell 1 Norman, Sergeant 1/2 Berger, Tartakower 1/2 Kmoch

Original collection: Game Collection: Hastings 1927/28, by User: suenteus po 147.

Previous: Hastings (1926/27). Next: Hastings (1928/29)

 page 1 of 1; games 1-25 of 25  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. G M Norman vs Yates 0-1381927Hastings 1927/28E24 Nimzo-Indian, Samisch
2. G Thomas vs Tartakower  0-1641927Hastings 1927/28B29 Sicilian, Nimzovich-Rubinstein
3. V Buerger vs R Michell  1-0431927Hastings 1927/28A25 English
4. L Steiner vs Kmoch  1-0291927Hastings 1927/28B29 Sicilian, Nimzovich-Rubinstein
5. Tartakower vs G M Norman 1-0281927Hastings 1927/28A70 Benoni, Classical with 7.Nf3
6. Yates vs E G Sergeant  1-0351927Hastings 1927/28C86 Ruy Lopez, Worrall Attack
7. G M Norman vs Colle 1-0421927Hastings 1927/28E16 Queen's Indian
8. E G Sergeant vs Tartakower 0-1591927Hastings 1927/28B29 Sicilian, Nimzovich-Rubinstein
9. G Thomas vs L Steiner  0-1331927Hastings 1927/28C86 Ruy Lopez, Worrall Attack
10. Yates vs V Buerger 0-1391927Hastings 1927/28C01 French, Exchange
11. L Steiner vs G M Norman 1-0241927Hastings 1927/28B43 Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3
12. E G Sergeant vs L Steiner  1-0251928Hastings 1927/28C77 Ruy Lopez
13. Yates vs Tartakower  0-1931928Hastings 1927/28B25 Sicilian, Closed
14. R Michell vs Colle  0-1341928Hastings 1927/28B29 Sicilian, Nimzovich-Rubinstein
15. V Buerger vs Tartakower  0-1551928Hastings 1927/28D12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
16. Colle vs Yates 1-0451928Hastings 1927/28A99 Dutch, Ilyin-Genevsky Variation with b3
17. Kmoch vs E G Sergeant  1-0491928Hastings 1927/28D60 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense
18. G Thomas vs G M Norman  1-0311928Hastings 1927/28B41 Sicilian, Kan
19. E G Sergeant vs G Thomas  0-1281928Hastings 1927/28B15 Caro-Kann
20. Tartakower vs Colle  ½-½261928Hastings 1927/28A07 King's Indian Attack
21. Colle vs V Buerger ½-½691928Hastings 1927/28E91 King's Indian
22. Kmoch vs Yates  0-1441928Hastings 1927/28E60 King's Indian Defense
23. L Steiner vs Tartakower  1-0521928Hastings 1927/28C12 French, McCutcheon
24. Colle vs L Steiner  ½-½461928Hastings 1927/28D05 Queen's Pawn Game
25. Yates vs G Thomas 1-0291928Hastings 1927/28C97 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin
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Kibitzer's Corner
Mar-31-14
Premium Chessgames Member
  Phony Benoni: Here is a list of the 20 missing games. Exact colors are uncertain.

Round 1: Steiner 0 Berger, Michell 1/2 Sergeant, Colle 1/2 Kmoch

Round 2: Colle 1 Thomas

Round 3: Yates 1/2 Michell, Berger 1/2 Kmoch

Round 4: Kmoch 1/2 Thomas, Tartakower 1/2 Michell, Colle 1/2 Sergeant

Round 5: Berger 0 Thomas, Kmoch 1 Norman

Round 6: Steiner 1 Michell

Round 7: Steiner 1/2 Yatesm Berger 1 Norman, Kmoch 0 Michell

Round 8: Thomas 0 Michell, Sergeant 1 Norman

Round 9: Berger 1/2 Sergeant, Michell 1 Norman, Tartakower 1/2 Kmoch

Mar-31-14  zanzibar: Again, like my other comment, BritBase has all the missing games (colors/rounds/exact dates included).

This one is also in the first Hastings-1 zipfile.

Use the same links. I won't check the other Hastings you posted today until after you synch with BritBase.

Sorry if you already looked at BritBase and found problems. But if that's the case, I sure would like to know. I have a great trust for the info on that site, and regard it as "definitive".

Mar-31-14
Premium Chessgames Member
  Phony Benoni: <zanzibar> Agains, I just forgot to recheck BritBase when I began checking the Hastings information. Thanks for reminding me.
Apr-19-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  GrahamClayton: "The eighth annual Christmas congress, promoted by the Hastings and St Leonards Chess Club, was held in the Town Hall as in former years. A record entry was received, 120 players competing in twelve distinct tournaments. In accordance with the policy of the club, to give British players an opportunity of meeting
continental experts, Dr Saviely Tartakower,
Lajos Steiner, Edgard Colle and Hans Kmoch
received and accepted invitations to play in the Premier, whilst eight foreign competitors were included in the two sections of the Major tournament. The British contingent in the
Premier was the same as last year.
On the first day of the congress, Wednesday,
December 28th [1927], a great part of England was covered deeply with snow and a severe gale had caused the suspension of the boat service from the continent. Competitors were pleasantly surprised on arrival in Hastings to find no snow and brilliant sunshine, but when the Mayor, Councillor AD Thorpe, opened the congress at 1745, news had reached the town that Steiner, Kmoch and Colle of the Premier, Rellstab, Landau and Sapira of the Major, were held up at Ostend, and two English competitors were snowed up in the country. However, all these reached Hastings on Friday [30 December] and the adjourned games concerned were completed by Monday."

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