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In September of 1930 an international chess tournament was held in Frankfurt, Germany. The main event was attended by exceptional chess masters from Europe and the United States. The notable participants were Aron Nimzowitsch, Jacques Mieses, Friedrich Saemisch, and Isaac Kashdan. Fresh off his win from Karlsbad the previous year, Nimzowitsch took clear first here continuing his campaign to challenge Alexander Alekhine for the world chess crown. Kashdan, the recent Manhatten Chess Club champion, took clear second, finishing undefeated a full two points ahead of the shared third place finishers. The final standings and crosstable:
1st Nimzowitsch 9½/11 * ½ 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 2nd Kashdan 9/11 ½ * ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1
=3rd Ahues 7/11 0 ½ * ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1
=3rd List 7/11 0 ½ ½ * ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 ½
5th Colle 6½/11 0 0 0 ½ * 1 0 1 1 1 1 1
6th Przepiorka 6/11 1 0 ½ ½ 0 * 1 ½ 0 ½ 1 1 7th Pirc 5½/11 0 ½ ½ 0 1 0 * ½ ½ ½ 1 1
8th Saemisch 5/11 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ * ½ 1 1 ½ 9th Mieses 4/11 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 ½ ½ * 0 1 ½
10th Thomas 3/11 0 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 1 * 0 1
11th Mannheimer 2/11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 * 1
12th Orbach 1½/11 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 0 *
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66 games, 1930 - Game of the Day 2022
254 games, 1838-2022 - Giessen 1928
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The Gießen Shachklub hosted an international chess tournament in Gießen, Germany in 1928. Among the participants were Richard Reti of Czechoslovakia, Savielly Tartakower of France, Hans Kmoch of Austria, and five German chess masters and players including Friedrich Saemisch, Walther Von Holzhausen, Wilhelm Orbach, Adolf Kramer, and Dr. P. Bechstedt. With the assembled talent hypermodern hijinks were bound to ensue and the this round robin event didn't disappoint. Reti finished clear first with +4, undefeated a full point ahead of shared seconds Tartakower and Saemisch. The final standings and crosstable:
1st Reti 5½/7 * ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 1
=2nd Saemisch 4½/7 ½ * ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ =2nd Tartakower 4½/7 ½ ½ * ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ =4th Kmoch 4/7 ½ 0 ½ * ½ ½ 1 1
=4th Orbach 4/7 0 ½ 0 ½ * 1 1 1
6th Kramer 3/7 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 * ½ 1
7th Bechstedt 1½/7 0 0 0 0 0 ½ * 1
8th Von Holzhausen 1/7 0 ½ ½ 0 0 0 0 *
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27 games, 1928 - Hamburg 1885
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The fourth meeting of the Deutschen Schachkongresse took place in Hamburg in 1885. It was the fourth master's tournament (Deutschen Schachbund) organized since its inception six year's previously at Leipzig in 1879. As in the previous three editions, the round robin tournament was an international event, pitting German masters against the best of Europe at the time. Germany was represented by its usual field of strong masters, including Wilfried Paulsen, Max Bier, Hermann Von Gottschall, Johannes Von Minckwitz, Fritz Reimann, Emil Schallopp, Arnold Schottlaender, and Siegbert Tarrasch who had won his spot by winning the 1883 Nuremberg Hauptturnier master title. The German masters were joined from Great Britain by Joseph Henry Blackburne, who was the winner of the second Deutschen Schachbund at Berlin in 1881, Henry Edward Bird, Isidor Gunsberg, George Henry Mackenzie, and James Mason. Berthold Englisch, the winner of the first Deutschen Schachbund in Leipzig 1879, along with Johann Nepomuk Berger and Max Weiss came from Austra. Josef Noa travelled from Hungary, and Jean Taubenhaus came from Poland. The eighteen assembled chess masters participated in the single strongest international event of 1885. In spite of the presence of such strong competition, Isidor Gunsberg surprisingly took clear first place with 12 points out of 17 games. Five other players, all of them sure bets at the start of the tournament to win, tied for second place half a point behind Gunsberg. Gunsberg would go on to have impressive results in the latter half of the 1880s, including winning matches against Blackburne and Bird, before challenging Wilhelm Steinitz for the world championship in 1890. Although he would not win the world crown, Gunsberg proved himself here and later that he was one of the best chess players in the world in the 19th century. The final standings and crosstable:
1st Gunsberg 12/17 * 1 0 ½ ½ 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 =2nd Blackburne 11½/17 0 * 0 ½ 1 1 1 1 0 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 ½ 0 =2nd Mason 11½/17 1 1 * ½ ½ 0 1 0 0 ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 =2nd Weiss 11½/17 ½ ½ ½ * 0 0 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 =2nd Englisch 11½/17 ½ 0 ½ 1 * 1 0 0 0 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 =2nd Tarrasch 11½/17 0 0 1 1 0 * 0 1 1 0 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 7th Mackenzie 10/17 0 0 0 0 1 1 * ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 =8th Riemann 9½/17 1 0 1 ½ 1 0 ½ * 1 0 ½ 0 1 ½ 0 ½ 1 1 =8th Schallopp 9½/17 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 * 0 1 ½ 0 1 1 1 1 1 10th Von Minckwitz 9/17 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 0 1 1 * ½ 0 1 1 1 ½ ½ 1 =11th Berger 8/17 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ * ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ =11th Bird 8/17 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 ½ 1 ½ * 0 1 1 1 1 1 =13th Von Gottschall 6½/17 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 1 0 ½ 1 * 0 1 1 0 1 =13th Taubenhaus 6½/17 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 0 1 0 1 * 1 ½ 1 1 15th Noa 5/17 1 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 * 1 1 0 =16th Schottlaender 4/17 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 0 * ½ ½ =16th Paulsen 4/17 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 0 1 0 0 ½ * ½ 18th Bier 3½/17 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 1 ½ ½ *
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149 games, 1885 - Hannover 1926
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The chess club at Hannover, Germany celebrated its fifty year anniversary by organizing a small, international chess master tournament in 1926. Eight players were invited to participate, including two very strong masters: Aron Nimzowitsch from Denmark, and Akiba Rubinstein from Poland. They met with six German chess masters that included Jacques Mieses, Friedrich Sämisch, Oscar Antze, Hans Duhm, Hermann Von Gottschall, and Walther Von Holzhausen. Games were played from August 9th to the 18th. Nimzowitsch won with a near perfect score of 6½/7, edging out Rubinstein by half a point. The prizes were awarded to the players at the Hotel Luisenhof. The final standings and crosstable:
1st Nimzowitsch 6½/7 * ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1
2nd Rubinstein 6/7 ½ * 1 ½ 1 1 1 1
3rd Von Holzhausen 4/7 0 0 * ½ 1 1 ½ 1
=4th Sämisch 3/7 0 ½ ½ * ½ 0 ½ 1
=4th Mieses 3/7 0 0 0 ½ * 1 ½ 1
6th Antze 2½/7 0 0 0 1 0 * 1 ½
=7th Duhm 1½/7 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 * 0
=7th Von Gottschall 1½/7 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 1 *
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28 games, 1926 - Hastings 1920/21
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After the summer chess congresses held in 1895 and 1919, the chess club at Hastings devised an annual event, a chess festival held around the Christmas holiday, which began with its inaugural master tournament at the end of the year 1920. Four British chess masters competed in the double round robin event. The participants were Frederick Yates, Henry Ernest Atkins, Roland Henry Scott, and Richard Clewin Griffith. The all British event would soon give way to being an international affair, with a longevity that spans over 80 years. Two games, the scores of which are incomplete, are omitted from this collection (and database). Both games were played by Atkins and Griffith: the first, Griffith-Atkins, was played in round two to a draw (the opening moves only remaining: 1.d4 d5 2.c4); the second, Atkins-Griffith, was played in the fifth round and saw a win for white (the opening moves only remaining: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6). Yates won the first Christmas festival, as one of Britain's best masters, by going undefeated through the event. The final standings and crosstable:
1st Yates 4/6 ** 1½ ½½ ½1
2nd Scott 3½/6 0½ ** ½1 1½
3rd Atkins 3/6 ½½ ½0 ** ½1
4th Griffith 1½/6 ½0 0½ ½0 **
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10 games, 1920-1922 - Hastings 1921/22
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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 *
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16 games, 1921 - Hastings 1922
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In September of 1922, the organizers of the Hastings chess congress decided to hold a masters tournament which would pit two English masters against four of the best from the European continent. The participants of the double round robin were Alexander Alekhine, Efim Bogoljubov, Akiba Rubinstein, Siegbert Tarrasch, George Alan Thomas, and Frederick Yates. Alekhine managed to edge out superstar Rubinstein by half a point in the final, winning his most famous game ever against long time rival Bogoljubov, whereas Rubinstein struggled for over a hundred moves against Thomas only to come up short at the end. The final standings and crosstable:
1st Alekhine 7½/10 ** ½1 11 11 1½ 0½
2nd Rubinstein 7/10 ½0 ** ½1 11 1½ ½1
=3rd Thomas 4½/10 00 ½0 ** ½½ ½½ 11
=3rd Bogoljubov 4½/10 00 00 ½½ ** 1½ 11
5th Tarrasch 4/10 0½ 0½ ½½ 0½ ** 1½
6th Yates 2½/10 1½ ½0 00 00 0½ **
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30 games, 1922 - Hastings 1922/23
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The third Hastings Christmas Chess Festival was held at the end of the year 1922. As with the previous installments of the event, more participants were invited to join the Premier tournament, with the roster increasing to ten in this edition. Among the notable participants this time around were Akiba Rubinstein and Richard Réti. The format was a round robin all-play-all that occurred over Christmas and through the New Year. As had happened last year, the non-British participants dominated over their English opponents, with Rubinstein finishing clear first at the final with 6.5/9. As with other early editions of Hastings, the complete tournament gamescores are not known. Here 16 games are lost, either incomplete or completely unrecorded and therefore unavailable in the database. The results of each encounter do survive, however, and thus allow for the final standings and crosstable to be reconstructed below: 1st Rubinstein 6½/9 * ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 0 ½ 1
=2nd Siegheim 6/9 ½ * 0 1 0 ½ 1 1 1 1
=2nd Réti 6/9 0 1 * 0 1 1 ½ ½ 1 1
=4th Conde 5/9 0 0 1 * 0 0 1 1 1 1
=4th Norman 5/9 0 1 0 1 * 1 ½ ½ ½ ½
6th Yates 4½/9 ½ ½ 0 1 0 * 0 ½ 1 1
=7th Blake 3½/9 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 1 * ½ ½ ½
=7th Sergeant, E 3½/9 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ 9th Drewitt 3/9 1 0 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ * ½
10th Sergeant, P 2/9 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ *
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29 games, 1922-1923 - Hastings 1923/24
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The fourth of the annual Christmas chess festivals held at Hastings occurred at the end of the year in 1923. Ten European chess masters were invited to participate in the round robin event, including Geza Maróczy, Jacques Mieses, and the talented Dutch amateur, Max Euwe. Euwe won the first of three Hastings titles here with an impressive final score of 7½/9. table[
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 Score
1st Euwe * ½ 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 7½/9
2nd Maróczy ½ * ½ 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 7/9
=3rd Colle 1 ½ * ½ 0 1 0 1 1 1 6/9
=3rd Yates 0 1 ½ * 1 0 1 ½ 1 1 6/9
=5th Seitz 0 0 1 0 * 1 1 1 0 1 5/9
=5th Michell 0 0 0 1 0 * 1 1 1 1 5/9
=7th Blake 0 0 1 0 0 0 * ½ ½ 1 3/9
=7th Mieses 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ * 1 1 3/9
9th Norman 0 0 0 0 1 0 ½ 0 * 1 2½/9
10th Price 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 * 0/9]table
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45 games, 1923-1924 - Hastings 1924/25
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The 5th Hastings Christmas Chess Festival was unlike previous events at the chess club because on this occasion sixteen chess masters and amateurs were split into two sections, "A" and "B." Among the participants were P.D. Bolland, Edgar Colle, Leslie Charles Gwyn Dewing, Arthur John Mackenzie, Geza Maróczy, Reginald Price Michell, George Marshall Norman, Hubert Ernest Price, David Przepiorka, Harold Saunders, Jacob Adolf Seitz, Edward G Sergeant, Endre Steiner, Lajos Steiner, Savielly Tartakower, and Frederick Dewhurst Yates. The A section saw Maróczy dominate the field. He went undefeated with 6.5/7, a full point ahead of second place Yates. The B section saw a three-way tie for first amongst Przepiorka, Steiner, and Tartakower. A playoff was devised for the top six finishers, with Maróczy drawing Tartakower in their game, Przepiorka defeating Seitz, and Yates winning with the black pieces against Endre Steiner. In the end, Maróczy was clear winner of the Hastings festival, the first and only time he would be so. The A section final standings and crosstable:
1st Maróczy 6½/7 * 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1
2nd Yates 5½/7 0 * 1 ½ 1 1 1 1
3rd Seitz 5/7 ½ 0 * ½ 1 1 1 1
4th Michell 4½/7 0 ½ ½ * ½ 1 1 1
5th Bolland 2½/7 0 0 0 ½ * 0 1 1
=6th Price 2/7 0 0 0 0 1 * 0 1
=6th Steiner 2/7 0 0 0 0 0 1 * 1
8th Dewing 0/7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 *
The B section final standings and crosstable:
=1st Steiner 5/7 * ½ 1 ½ 1 1 0 1
=1st Tartakower 5/7 ½ * ½ 0 1 1 1 1
=1st Przepiorka 5/7 0 ½ * 1 1 ½ 1 1
4th Sergeant 4½/7 ½ 1 0 * ½ 1 ½ 1
=5th Colle 2½/7 0 0 0 ½ * 1 1 0
=5th Norman 2½/7 0 0 ½ 0 0 * 1 1
=5th Saunders 2½/7 1 0 0 ½ 0 0 * 1
8th Mackenzie 1/7 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 *
The final standings of the top six after the playoff: 1st Maróczy 7/8 (+6 -0 =2)
2nd Yates 6½/8 (+6 -1 =1)
3rd Przepiorka 6/8 (+5 -1 =2)
4th Tartakower 5½/8 (+4 -1 =3)
=5th Steiner 5/8 (+4 -2 =2)
=5th Seitz 5/8 (+4 -2 =2)
*Thanks, as usual, to <Phony Benoni> for helping to make this collection the most it could be.
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59 games, 1924-1925 - Hastings 1925/26
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The sixth Hastings Christmas Chess Festival was held at the end of the year 1925. Once again ten chess masters from England and the continent were invited to participate in the round robin event. The notable participants of this edition included Alexander Alekhine and Milan Vidmar. Wouldn't you know they tied for first in the final? 18 incomplete or lost games are missing from this collection and the database. The final standings and crosstable:
=1st Alekhine 8½/9 * ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
=1st Vidmar 8½/9 ½ * 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
3rd Seitz 5/9 0 0 * 0 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1
4th Michell 4½/9 0 0 1 * 0 ½ 1 0 1 1
=5th Yates 4/9 0 0 0 1 * 1 ½ 1 ½ 0
=5th Colle 4/9 0 0 0 ½ 0 * 1 1 ½ 1
7th Janowski 3/9 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 * ½ 1 ½
=8th Wahltuch 2.5/9 0 0 0 1 0 0 ½ * 0 1
=8th Sergeant 2.5/9 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 1 * 0
=8th Norman 2.5/9 0 0 0 0 1 0 ½ 0 1 *
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27 games, 1925-1926 - Hastings 1926/27
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The seventh annual Hastings Chess Congress met at the end of the year of 1926 to conduct a round robin tournament. Ten players were invited to compete, including Savielly Tartakower, Richard Réti, Edgar Colle, George Alan Thomas, Frederick D Yates, George Marshall Norman, Edward G Sergeant, Reginald Pryce Michell, Victor Berger, and Alfred Teller. The new year's tournament saw a three way tie for first among Tartakower, Réti, and Colle. The final standings and crosstable:
=1st Tartakower 6/9 * 0 = 0 = 1 1 1 1 1
=1st Réti 6/9 1 * 1 0 = = 0 1 1 1
=1st Colle 6/9 = 0 * 1 1 = = 1 = 1
4th Yates 5.5/9 1 1 0 * 0 = 1 1 0 1
5th Norman 5/9 = = 0 1 * 0 0 1 1 1
6th Sergeant 4.5/9 0 = = = 1 * 1 0 0 1
=7th Teller 4/9 0 1 = 0 1 0 * 0 = 1
=7th Berger 4/9 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 * 1 1
9th Thomas 3/9 0 0 = 1 0 1 = 0 * 0
10th Michell 1/9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 *
This collection would not have been possible without refutor, who has my eternal gratitude.
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45 games, 1926-1927 - Hastings 1927/28
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The eighth annual Hastings Christmas Chess Festival was held at the end of the year 1927. 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. The final standings and crosstable:
1st Tartakower 6½/9 * 0 ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1
2nd Steiner 6/9 1 * ½ 0 ½ 1 1 1 0 1
=3rd Colle 5½/9 ½ ½ * ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 0
=3rd Berger 5½/9 0 1 ½ * 1 1 ½ 0 ½ 1
5th Yates 5/9 0 ½ 0 0 * ½ 1 1 1 1
6th Michell 4½/9 ½ 0 0 0 ½ * 1 1 ½ 1
7th Kmoch 4/9 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 0 * ½ 1 1
=8th Thomas 3½/9 0 0 0 1 0 0 ½ * 1 1
=8th Sergeant 3½/9 0 1 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 0 * 1
10th Norman 1/9 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 *
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25 games, 1927-1928 - Hastings 1928/29
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The nineth annual Hastings Chess Congress met at the end of the year of 1928 to conduct a round robin tournament. Ten players were invited to compete, including Frank James Marshall, Sandor Takacs, Edgar Colle, George Alan Thomas, Frederick D Yates, George Marshall Norman, Edward G Sergeant, Reginald Pryce Michell, Victor Berger, and Georges Koltanowski. The new year's tournament saw a three way tie for first among Colle, Marshall, and Takacs. The final standings and crosstable:
=1st Colle 6/9 * 1 1 ½ 0 1 0 ½ 1 1
=1st Marshall 6/9 0 * ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1
=1st Takacs 6/9 0 ½ * 0 1 1 1 ½ 1 1
4th Koltanowski 5½/9 ½ ½ 1 * 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1
5th Yates 5/9 1 0 0 1 * 1 1 ½ ½ 0
=6th Michell 4/9 0 0 0 ½ 0 * 1 ½ 1 1
=6th Sergeant 4/9 1 ½ 0 0 0 0 * 1 1 ½
8th Thomas 3½/9 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 * 0 1
9th Berger 3/9 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 0 1 * ½
10th Norman 2/9 0 0 0 0 1 0 ½ 0 ½ *
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45 games, 1928-1929 - Hastings 1929/30
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The tenth Hastings Christmas Chess Festival was held at the end of the year 1929. Once again ten chess masters from England, the European continent, and the Americas were invited to participate in the round robin event. The notable participants of this edition included Jose Capablanca, Geza Maróczy, and Milan Vidmar. Capablanca won in fine fashion, finishing undefeated with 4 wins and 5 draws. 20 incomplete or lost games are missing from this collection and the database. The results of each encounter do survive, however, and thus allow for the final standings and crosstable to be reconstructed below: 1st Capablanca 6½/9 * ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1
2nd Vidmar 5½/9 ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½
3rd Yates 5/9 ½ ½ * ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 0 1
=4th Thomas 4½/9 0 ½ ½ * ½ ½ 1 1 0 ½
=4th Maróczy 4½/9 ½ ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ =4th Takacs 4½/9 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ * 0 ½ 1 1
=4th Sergeant 4½/9 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 1 * 1 ½ 1
8th Winter 4/9 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 * 1 1
9th Menchik 3½/9 0 ½ 1 1 ½ 0 ½ 0 * 0
10th Price 2½/9 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 0 0 1 *
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25 games, 1929-1930 - Hastings 1930/31
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The 11th Hastings Christmas Chess Festival was held at the end of the year 1930. Once again ten chess masters from England, the European continent, and the Americas were invited to participate in the round robin event. The notable participants of this edition included Jose Capablanca, Max Euwe, and Mir Sultan Khan. Dutch master Euwe won in surprising combative fashion, finishing undefeated with 6 wins and 2 draws, dropping only one game. He edged out multiple Hastings winner and former world champion Capablanca by half a point. 13 incomplete or lost games are missing from this collection and the database. The results of each encounter do survive, however, and thus allow for the final standings and crosstable to be reconstructed below: 1st Euwe 7/9 * ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 0 1
2nd Capablanca 6½/9 ½ * 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 1
3rd Sultan Khan 6/9 0 1 * 1 ½ 1 0 ½ 1 1
4th Michell 5/9 0 ½ 0 * 1 1 ½ 0 1 1
5th Yates 4½/9 0 0 ½ 0 * 1 1 1 ½ ½
6th Thomas 4/9 ½ ½ 0 0 0 * 1 1 0 1
7th Winter 3½/9 0 0 1 ½ 0 0 * ½ 1 ½
=8th Tylor 3/9 0 0 ½ 1 0 0 ½ * ½ ½
=8th Menchik 3/9 1 0 0 0 ½ 1 0 ½ * 0
10th Colle 2½/9 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 *
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32 games, 1930-1931 - Hastings 1945/46
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In 1945, in the wake of the Second World War, the chess club at Hastings reorganized their year-end international chess congress to commemorate the 50th anniversary of one of the strongest tournaments of the 19th century, originally won by Harry Nelson Pillsbury. Among the participants were former world champion Max Euwe, French grandmaster Savielly Tartakower, and eighty year old Jacques Mieses who had participated in the original tournament fifty years earlier! The rest of the participants were current and future US champions Arnold Denker and Herman Steiner, Swiss champion Martin Christoffel, future London champions James Macrae Aitken, Edward G Sergeant and George Alan Thomas, future Dutch champion Lodewijk Prins, future Swedish champion Nils Johan A Folke Ekstroem, and Paul Devos. Tartakower won with an astounding 9.5/11! The final standings and crosstable:
1st Tartakower 9.5/11 * 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 =
2nd Ekstroem 9/11 0 * 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
=3rd Euwe 7/11 1 0 * = = 1 = 0 1 = 1 1
=3rd Denker 7/11 0 0 = * 1 = 1 = = 1 1 1
=3rd Steiner 7/11 0 1 = 0 * 1 = 1 0 1 1 1
6th Aitken 6/11 0 0 0 = 0 * = 1 1 1 1 1
7th Prins 5/11 0 0 = 0 = = * 1 1 = 1 0
8th Thomas 4/11 0 0 1 = 0 0 0 * 0 1 = 1
9th Christoffel 3.5/11 0 0 0 = 1 0 0 1 * 0 0 1 10th Mieses 3/11 0 0 = 0 0 0 = 0 1 * = =
=11th Sergeant 2.5/11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 = 1 = * =
=11th Devos 2.5/11 = 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 = = *
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66 games, 1945-1946 - Hastings 1948/49
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The 24th Hastings Christmas Chess Festival was held at the end of the year 1948. Once again ten chess masters from England and the European continent were invited to participate in the round robin event. Due to the fierce competition occurring around the world championship cycle organized by FIDE, less notable masters and amateurs participated in this year's edition, yet the excitement of earlier premier events was kept alive by these tough competitors. 23 games were decisive among these players, with Nicolas Rossolimo distinguishing himself by the final with clear first, finishing undefeated with +4. The final standings and crosstable:
1st Rossolimo 6½/9 * ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1
2nd Koenig 6/9 ½ * ½ 0 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 1
3rd Muhring 5½/9 0 ½ * ½ 0 1 1 1 ½ 1
=4th Wood 5/9 ½ 1 ½ * 1 0 0 ½ ½ 1
=4th Fairhurst 5/9 0 0 1 0 * ½ 1 1 1 ½
6th Schmidt 4½/9 ½ ½ 0 1 ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½
7th Thomas 4/9 ½ 0 0 1 0 ½ * ½ ½ 1
8th Wade 3½/9 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ * 1 ½
9th Winter 3/9 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 * ½
10th Tylor 2/9 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ *
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45 games, 1948-1949 - Hastings 1949/50
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The 25th Hastings Christmas Chess Festival was held from December 29th, 1949 to January 7th, 1950. Once again ten chess masters from England, the European continent, and the Americas were invited to participate in the premier event. The notable participants of this edition included former world champion Max Euwe, grandmaster Laszlo Szabo, the winner of the previous year's Hastings premier Nicolas Rossolimo, and chess prodigy from the United States Larry Evans. In spite of the presence of Euwe, who had won his share of Hastings in years passed, and Rossolimo who improved on his previous year's performance, it was Szabo who dominated the field with seven wins to claim victory in the final, his third overall. The final standings and crosstable:
1st Szabo 8/9 * ½ 1 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 1
2nd Rossolimo 7½/9 ½ * ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1
3rd Euwe 5½/9 0 ½ * ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1
4th Evans 5/9 0 0 ½ * ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1
=5th Horne 4/9 0 ½ ½ ½ * ½ 1 ½ 0 ½
=5th Fuller 4/9 0 0 0 0 ½ * ½ 1 1 1
7th Barda 3½/9 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ * 1 ½ 0
=8th Wood 2½/9 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 * 1 0
=8th Koenig 2½/9 0 0 0 0 1 0 ½ 0 * 1
=8th Winser 2½/9 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 1 1 0 *
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45 games, 1949-1950
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Kibitzing
