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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... Previous: Hastings (1966/67). Next: Hastings (1968/69). Original collection: Game Collection: Hastings 1967/68, by User: suenteus po 147.  page 1 of 2; games 1-25 of 45  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Hartston vs M Basman   1-0 67 1967 Hastings 1967/68 B07 Pirc 2. Keene vs Hort   ½-½ 20 1967 Hastings 1967/68 A04 Reti Opening 3. P Ostojic vs Suetin   ½-½ 84 1967 Hastings 1967/68 B47 Sicilian, Taimanov (Bastrikov) Variation 4. A Whiteley vs J Kaplan   ½-½ 86 1967 Hastings 1967/68 A56 Benoni Defense 5. Gheorghiu vs Stein   ½-½ 18 1967 Hastings 1967/68 E71 King's Indian, Makagonov System (5.h3) 6. Stein vs P Ostojic   ½-½ 58 1967 Hastings 1967/68 B35 Sicilian, Accelerated Fianchetto, Modern Variation with Bc4 7. Hort vs A Whiteley   1-0 32 1967 Hastings 1967/68 D48 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, Meran 8. J Kaplan vs Gheorghiu   0-1 29 1967 Hastings 1967/68 B61 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer, Larsen Variation, 7.Qd2 9. M Basman vs Suetin   0-1 41 1967 Hastings 1967/68 A40 Queen's Pawn Game 10. Hartston vs Keene   ½-½ 12 1967 Hastings 1967/68 B06 Robatsch 11. A Whiteley vs Hartston   ½-½ 21 1967 Hastings 1967/68 D76 Neo-Grunfeld, 6.cd Nxd5, 7.O-O Nb6 12. Gheorghiu vs Hort   ½-½ 14 1967 Hastings 1967/68 D42 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch, 7.Bd3 13. Suetin vs Stein   ½-½ 21 1967 Hastings 1967/68 E98 King's Indian, Orthodox, Taimanov, 9.Ne1 14. Keene vs M Basman   ½-½ 34 1967 Hastings 1967/68 A07 King's Indian Attack 15. P Ostojic vs J Kaplan   ½-½ 25 1967 Hastings 1967/68 B32 Sicilian 16. J Kaplan vs Suetin   ½-½ 40 1967 Hastings 1967/68 B48 Sicilian, Taimanov Variation 17. Hort vs P Ostojic   1-0 36 1967 Hastings 1967/68 A07 King's Indian Attack 18. Hartston vs Gheorghiu   ½-½ 32 1967 Hastings 1967/68 B04 Alekhine's Defense, Modern 19. Keene vs A Whiteley   ½-½ 26 1967 Hastings 1967/68 A07 King's Indian Attack 20. M Basman vs Stein   0-1 43 1967 Hastings 1967/68 B56 Sicilian 21. A Whiteley vs M Basman   ½-½ 21 1967 Hastings 1967/68 D30 Queen's Gambit Declined 22. Suetin vs Hort   ½-½ 22 1967 Hastings 1967/68 A37 English, Symmetrical 23. Gheorghiu vs Keene 1-0 27 1967 Hastings 1967/68 A29 English, Four Knights, Kingside Fianchetto 24. P Ostojic vs Hartston 1-0 50 1967 Hastings 1967/68 B89 Sicilian 25. Stein vs J Kaplan   ½-½ 27 1967 Hastings 1967/68 A39 English, Symmetrical, Main line with d4  page 1 of 2; games 1-25 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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