- Hastings 1950/51
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The 26th Hastings Christmas Chess Festival was held at the end of the year 1950. Once more ten chess masters from England and the European continent were invited to participate in the premier event. The notable participants of this edition included Nicolas Rossolimo who had won Hastings once previously and Wolfgang Unzicker from Germany. Though Rossolimo matched his winning score from two years ago it was only good enough this year for shared second with Alberic O'Kelly de Galway. Unzicker edged them both out by half a point at the final, finishing undefeated with +5. The final standings and crosstable:
1st Unzicker 7/9 * ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 1
=2nd Rossolimo 6½/9 ½ * 1 ½ 0 ½ 1 1 1 1
=2nd O'Kelly de Galway 6½/9 ½ 0 * ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 =4th Golombek 4½/9 ½ ½ ½ * 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½
=4th Penrose 4½/9 0 1 0 1 * ½ ½ ½ 0 1
=4th Castaldi 4½/9 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ * 0 1 1 ½
=4th Thomas 4½/9 ½ 0 0 0 ½ 1 * ½ 1 1
8th Barden 3/9 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ * 1 ½
9th Adams 2½/9 0 0 0 ½ 1 0 0 0 * 1
10th Phillips 1½/9 0 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 *
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45 games, 1950-1951 - Hastings 1951/52
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The 27th Hastings Christmas Chess Festival was held at the end of the year 1951. Once more ten chess masters from England and the European continent were invited to participate in the premier event. The notable participants of this edition included Jan Hein Donner, Svetozar Gligoric, Lothar Schmid, and Daniel Yanofsky. Gligoric finished undefeated with +6 at the final. The final standings and crosstable:
1st Gligoric 7½/9 * ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1
2nd Yanofsky 6/9 ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1
3rd Schmid 5½/9 ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½
=4th Barden 4½/9 ½ ½ ½ * ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ ½
=4th Donner 4½/9 0 ½ ½ ½ * 1 0 0 1 1
=4th Popel 4½/9 0 ½ ½ 1 0 * 1 0 ½ 1
7th Thomas 3½/9 0 0 0 ½ 1 0 * ½ 1 ½
=8th Hooper 3/9 0 ½ 0 0 1 1 ½ * 0 0
=8th Abrahams 3/9 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 1 * ½
=8th Golombek 3/9 0 0 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 1 ½ *
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45 games, 1951-1952 - Hastings 1953/54
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The 29th Hastings Christmas Chess Festival was held at the end of the year 1953. After resuming annual tournaments in 1945 after the war, the chess club at 7 Carlisle Parade had struggled to keep the event ongoing without many foreign participants to make the contests more engaging to the public. This edition of the premier tournament saw an opportunity that would shape the course of the event for the remainder of the 1950s. The Soviet Chess Federation, in the interest of displaying their dominant grandmasters to the West, sent as emissaries David Bronstein and Alexander Tolush to participate in the festival. They were met by four time Hastings winner Dr. Savielly Tartakower, and Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander who had won the 22nd edition of the Hastings event and been a code-breaker for the Allies during WWII. The remaining seats were filled by International masters Aleksander Matanovic, Alberic O'Kelly de Galway, and Robert Wade; Fridik Olafsson who had placed 3rd in the 1953 World Junior Championship; Rudolf Teschner, the editor of "Deutsche Schachzeitung" and West German champion of 1951; and a previous Hastings participant, Dennis Horne. The time control for the event was 34 moves in two hours followed by 17 moves every hour. Alexander won his second Hastings festival with 6½/9, sharing first with world vice-champion Bronstein. Despite Bronstein's shared first, his and Tolush's losses to Alexander, as well as their inability to sweep the field, were considered an embarrassment by the Soviet Chess Federation. They would retaliate the following year by sending Vasily Smyslov and Paul Keres to Hastings to accomplish what Bronstein and Tolush had failed to do. Nevertheless, the new invitations to Soviet grandmasters was a success and the Hastings Christmas festivals continued with new vigor throughout the 1950s. The final standings and crosstable:
=1st Alexander 6½/9 * 1 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1
=1st Bronstein 6½/9 0 * 1 1 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1
3rd O'Kelly de Galway 5½/9 0 0 * ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 ½ =4th Olafsson 4½/9 ½ 0 ½ * ½ 0 1 1 1 0
=4th Matanovic 4½/9 ½ ½ 0 ½ * 1 ½ 0 ½ 1
=4th Tolush 4½/9 0 ½ 0 1 0 * 1 1 0 1
=4th Teschner 4½/9 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 * 1 1 1
8th Tartakower 3½/9 ½ 0 0 0 1 0 0 * 1 1
9th Wade 3/9 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 1 0 0 * ½
10th Horne 2/9 0 0 ½ 1 0 0 0 0 ½ *
*As usual, the credit for much of the historical content goes to Jan van Reek and his amazing website.
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45 games, 1953-1954 - Hastings 1954/55
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The 30th Hastings Christmas Chess Festival was held at the end of the year 1954. Ten grandmasters and masters were invited to participant in the round robin format of the premier event, including world vice-champion Vasily Smyslov and world champion candidate Paul Keres from the Soviet Union, two-time Hastings winner and returning champion Conel Hugh Alexander, three time Hastings winner Laszlo Szabo from Hungary, previous Hastings winner Wolgang Unzicker from West Germany, Czechoslovakian champion Ludek Pachman, Dutch champion Jan Hein Donner, former Yugoslavian champion Andrija Fuderer, British champion Alan Phillips, and Scottish international master William Fairhurst. Smyslov and Keres easily dominated the field, flexing the might of the Soviet chess machine with greater superiority than seen previously in last year's Hastings. The two world class players finished with +5, a point and a half ahead of the shared thirds. The final standings and crosstable:
=1st Smyslov 7/9 * ½ 1 ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 1 1
=1st Keres 7/9 ½ * 0 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1
=3rd Fuderer 5½/9 0 1 * 1 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1
=3rd Pachman 5½/9 ½ ½ 0 * ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½
=3rd Szabo 5½/9 0 0 1 ½ * ½ ½ 1 1 1
6th Unzicker 5/9 0 0 ½ ½ ½ * ½ 1 1 1
7th Alexander 4½/9 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ * ½ 1 1
8th Donner 2½/9 ½ 0 0 0 0 0 ½ * 1 ½
9th Fairhurst 1½/9 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 0 * 1
10th Phillips 1/9 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 ½ 0 *
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45 games, 1954-1955 - Hastings 1955/56
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The 31st Hastings Christmas Chess Festival was held at the end of the year 1955. Ten grandmasters and masters were invited to participate in the round robin format of the premier event, including grandmasters Viktor Korchnoi and Mark Taimanov from the Soviet Union, West German champion Klaus Darga, Spanish champion Jesus Diez del Corral, Yugoslavian grandmaster Borislav Ivkov, Icelandic master Fridrik Olafsson, Swiss master Raphael Persitz, British correspondence champion John Fuller, and previous Hastings winners Harry Golombek and Jonathan Penrose. Olafsson gained international recognition by tying Korchnoi for first place in the final. Both players finished undefeated with +5, while Ivkov trailed by half a point for clear third. The final standings and crosstable:
=1st Korchnoi 7/9 * ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1
=1st Olafsson 7/9 ½ * ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1
3rd Ivkov 6½/9 0 ½ * 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 ½
4th Taimanov 6/9 ½ 0 0 * 1 1 1 1 1 ½
5th Darga 4½/9 0 ½ 0 0 * ½ 1 ½ 1 1
=6th Fuller 3½/9 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ * ½ 0 ½ 1
=6th Persitz 3½/9 ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ * 1 1 ½
8th Diez del Corral 3/9 0 0 0 0 ½ 1 0 * ½ 1
9th Penrose 2½/9 0 ½ 0 0 0 ½ 0 ½ * 1
10th Golombek 1½/9 0 0 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ 0 0 *
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45 games, 1955-1956 - Hastings 1956/57
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The 32nd Hastings Christmas Chess Festival was held at the end of the year 1956. Ten grandmasters and masters from England, and Western and Eastern Europe were invited to compete in the premier event. The notable participants of this edition included previous Hastings winners Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander, Svetozar Gligoric, Fridrik Olafsson, Dr. Jonathan Penrose, and Laszlo Szabo. Additionally, 21 year old grandmaster Bent Larsen from Denmark made his Hastings debut, going on to share first place with Gligoric at the final. It was Gligoric's second Hastings title, and he finished here undefeated with +4. The final standings and crosstable:
=1st Gligoric 6½/9 * ½ 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½
=1st Larsen 6½/9 ½ * 0 ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 1
=3rd Olafsson 6/9 0 1 * ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1
=3rd O'Kelly de Galway 6/9 0 ½ ½ * 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 =5th Clarke 4½/9 ½ ½ ½ 0 * ½ 1 ½ ½ ½
=5th Szabo 4½/9 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ 1
7th Toran Albero 3½/9 ½ 0 ½ 0 0 ½ * 1 ½ ½ 8th Horseman 3/9 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 * 1 1
9th Penrose 2½/9 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 * ½
10th Alexander 2/9 ½ 0 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ *
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45 games, 1956-1957 - Hastings 1957/58
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The 33rd Hastings Christmas Chess Festival was held from December 27th, 1957 to January 6th, 1958. Ten grandmasters and masters were invited to compete a round robin format at the premier event. The notable participants of this edition included previous Hastings winners Svetozar Gligoric, Paul Keres, and Dr. Jonathan Penrose. Keres was clear first at the final with +6, winning his second Hastings tournament. The final standings and crosstable:
1st Keres 7½/9 * 0 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
2nd Gligoric 6½/9 1 * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1
3rd Filip 6/9 ½ ½ * ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1
4th Barden 5/9 0 ½ ½ * ½ 1 0 ½ 1 1
=5th Kluger 4½/9 0 ½ 0 ½ * ½ 1 1 ½ ½
=5th Sterner 4½/9 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ * ½ ½ 1 1
7th Penrose 4/9 0 ½ 0 1 0 ½ * ½ 1 ½
8th Clarke 3½/9 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ * 1 ½
9th Blau 2/9 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 0 0 * 1
10th Fazekas 1½/9 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 *
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45 games, 1957-1958 - Hastings 1959/60
45 games, 1959-1960 - Hastings 1961/62
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The 37th Hastings Christmas Chess Festival was held at the end of the year 1961. Ten grandmasters and masters were invited to compete in a round robin format at the premier event. The notable participants of this edition included the world champion Mikhail Botvinnik, 4-time Hastings champion Svetozar Gligoric, and Salomon Flohr. Botvinnik became the first reigning world champion to win at Hastings, finishing undefeated with +7 at the final. It was the first of what would be two Hastings title for the patriarch of the Soviet chess school. The final standings are as follows: 1st Botvinnik 8 points (+7, -0, =2);
2nd Gligoric 6 points (+5, -2, =2);
3rd Flohr 5.5 points (+3, -1, =5);
=4th Penrose 5 points (+3, -2, =4);
=4th Bisguier 5 points (+3, -2, =4);
=6th Littlewood 4 points (+3, -4, =2);
=6th Robatsch 4 points (+3, -4, =2);
8th Wade 3.5 points (+2, -4, =3);
9th Barden 3 points (+2, -5, =2);
10th Aaron 1 point (+1, -8, =0).
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45 games, 1961-1962 - Hastings 1962/63
45 games, 1962-1963 - Hastings 1963/64
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The 39th Hastings Christmas Chess Festival was held at the end of the year 1963. Ten grandmasters and masters were invited to compete in a round robin format at the premier event. The notable participants of this edition included 5-time Hastings winner Svetozar Gligoric and former world champion Mikhail Tal. Continuing a tradition recently renewed by Mikhail Botvinnik, Tal joined the league of former and future world champions to take clear first at the event, finishing undefeated with +5 at the final. Gligoric followed closely with +4 for clear second place. The final standings and crosstable:
1st Tal 7/9 * ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 ½ 1
2nd Gligoric 6½/9 ½ * ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ ½ 1
=3rd Lengyel 6/9 ½ ½ * 1 0 0 1 1 1 1
=3rd Khasin 6/9 ½ ½ 0 * ½ ½ 1 1 1 1
5th Littlewood, N 5½/9 0 0 1 ½ * 1 0 1 1 1
6th Brinck-Claussen 4½/9 0 0 1 ½ 0 * ½ ½ 1 1 7th Littlewood, J 3½/9 0 0 0 0 1 ½ * 0 1 1
8th Hindle 2½/9 0 ½ 0 0 0 ½ 1 * ½ 0
9th Bely 2/9 ½ ½ 0 0 0 0 0 ½ * ½
10th Franklin 1½/9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 ½ *
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45 games, 1963-1964 - Hastings 1966/67
45 games, 1966-1967 - Hastings 1967/68
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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. The final standings and crosstable:
table[
=1st Hort 6/9 * ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½
=1st Gheorghiu 6/9 ½ * ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1
=1st Stein 6/9 ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1
=1st Suetin 6/9 ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1
5th Ostojic 5/9 0 ½ ½ ½ * ½ 1 ½ 1 ½
6th Kaplan 4/9 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½
7th Whiteley 3½/9 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ * ½ ½ ½
=8th Keene 3/9 ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½
=8th Hartston 3/9 0 ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ * 1
10th Basman 2½/9 ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 *
]table
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45 games, 1967-1968 - Hastings 1968/69
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The 44th Hastings Christmas Chess Festival was held at the end of the year 1968. The field expanded this year and twelve grandmasters and masters were invited to compete in a round robin format at the premier event. The notable participants of this edition included former world champion and previous Hastings winner Vasily Smyslov, five time Hastings winner Svetozar Gligoric, and an assortment of promising junior masters including Robert Huebner, Raymond Keene, Jan Smejkal, and Vladimir Tukmakov. As it stood, experience beat out youth as Smyslov won his second Hastings tournament, this time as clear first with +6 at the final. He edged out Gligoric, who finished with +5 undefeated, by half a point. The final standings and crosstable:
1st Smyslov 8½/11 * ½ ½ 1 0 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1
2nd Gligoric 8/11 ½ * ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 =3rd Tukmakov 7½/11 ½ ½ * ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ =3rd Keene 7½/11 0 ½ ½ * 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1
5th Smejkal 6½/11 1 0 0 0 * ½ 1 1 1 1 0 1
6th Huebner 5½/11 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ * 1 ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ 7th Wright 4½/11 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 0 * ½ 1 0 ½ 1
=8th Clarke 4/11 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ * 0 ½ ½ ½ =8th Persitz 4/11 0 0 0 ½ 0 1 0 1 * ½ ½ ½
=8th Hartoch 4/11 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ * 1 ½
11th Kottnauer 3½/11 0 0 0 0 1 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 * 1 12th Fuller 2½/11 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 *
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66 games, 1968-1969 - Hastings 1970/71
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The 46th Hastings Christmas Chess Festival was held at the end of the year 1970. Ten grandmasters and masters were invited to compete in a round robin format at the premier event. The notable participants of this edition included returning Hastings champion, Lajos Portish, former Hastings winners Svetozar Gligoric, Vlastimil Hort, and Wolfgang Uhlmann, American grandmaster Robert Byrne, and Soviet grandmaster Nikolai Krogius. Portisch made it two in a row by finishing undefeated with +3 at the final. The final standings and crosstable:
1st Portisch 6/9 * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1
=2nd Uhlmann 5/9 ½ * 1 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ 0 1
=2nd Markland 5/9 ½ 0 * 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½
=2nd Hort 5/9 ½ 1 0 * ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½
=2nd Krogius 5/9 ½ ½ ½ ½ * ½ 0 ½ 1 1
=2nd Gligoric 5/9 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ * 1 ½ 1 ½
7th Mestrovic 4/9 0 ½ 0 0 1 0 * 1 1 ½
=8th Byrne 3½/9 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 * 0 ½
=8th Wade 3½/9 0 1 ½ ½ 0 0 0 1 * ½
10th Keene 3/9 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ *
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45 games, 1970-1971 - Hastings 1971/72
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The 47th Hastings Christmas Chess Festival was held at the end of the year 1971. In expansion over the previous year, sixteen grandmasters and masters were invited to compete in a round robin format at the premier event. The complete list of participants included (in order of ELO): Viktor Korchnoi (2670), Svetozar Gligoric (2600), Wolfgang Unzicker (2545), Anatoli Karpov (2540), Henrique Mecking (2540), Miguel Najdorf (2530), Helmut Pfleger (2515), Ulf Andersson (2510), Robert Byrne (2510), Peter Markland (2510), Bojan Kurajica (2490), Raymond Keene (2465), Victor Ciocaltea (2460), George Botterill (2410), William Hartston (2390), and Michael Franklin (2345). The average of the combined ratings of all the players qualified the tournament as a category XI event. Karpov and Korchnoi tied for first place, each with +7 at the final. In a little over two years the joint winners would be facing each other for the world championship, which would eventually be awarded to Karpov. Thus, his win here puts him alongside Alekhine and Euwe as a player who won the Hastings premier on his way to becoming world champion. The final standings:
=1st Karpov 11 points (+8, -1, =6);
=1st Korchnoi 11 points (+8, -1, =6);
=3rd Byrne 9.5 points (+6, -2, =7);
=3rd Mecking 9.5 points (+5, -1, =9);
=5th Najdorf 8.5 points (+4, -2, =9);
=5th Gligoric 8.5 points (+2, -0, =13);
=7th Andersson 8 points (+3, -2, =10);
=7th Unzicker 8 points (+2, -1, =12);
9th Pfleger 7.5 points (+2, -2, =11);
10th Kurajica 7 points (+3, -4, =8);
11th Ciocaltea 6.5 points (+0, -2, =13);
=12th Hartston 6 points (+1, -4, =10);
=12th Botterill 6 points (+2, -5, =8);
14th Keene 5.5 points (+0, -4, =11);
15th Markland 4.5 points (+2, -8, =5);
16th Franklin 3 points (+1, -10, =4).
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120 games, 1971-1972 - Hastings 1973/74
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The 49th Hastings Christmas Chess Festival was held at the end of the year 1973. Sixteen grandmasters and masters were invited to compete in a round robin format at the premier event. The notable participants of this edition included former world champion Mikhail Tal, former Hastings winners Svetozar Gligoric and Laszlo Szabo, Soviet Grandmaster Gennadi Kuzmin, and a 22 year old Dutch master, named Jan Timman, seeking his second grandmaster norm. In the two years since the playing field had increased for the tournament's format a larger display of talent and styles was being exhibited at Hastings, and this year was no exception. In addition to the aggressive and tactical displays of Tal and Timman, there were also more offbeat playing styles represented in the guise of British masters Michael Basman and Anthony Miles, and Canadian grandmaster Duncan Suttles. The final of the event saw a four way tie for first place among Kuzmin, Szabo, Tal, and Timman, who earned his second GM norm. Five time Hastings winner Gligoric trailed the leaders by half a point for clear fifth place. The final standings and crosstable:
=1st Szabo 10/15 * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 =1st Tal 10/15 ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 1 1 =1st Timman 10/15 ½ ½ * ½ 1 0 0 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 =1st Kuzmin 10/15 ½ ½ ½ * 0 ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 0 1 1 1 5th Gligoric 9½/15 ½ ½ 0 1 * 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 0 1 1 6th Keene 9/15 ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 7th Adorjan 8½/15 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 =8th Benko 7½/15 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ * ½ 1 0 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ =8th Hartston 7½/15 ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 10th Basman 7/15 0 ½ 0 0 0 ½ 1 0 ½ * ½ 0 1 1 1 1 11th Suttles 6½/15 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ * ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 12th Pytel 6/15 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ * 0 ½ ½ ½ 13th Miles 5½/15 0 ½ 0 1 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 * 1 0 0 =14th Garcia-Martinez 5/15 ½ ½ 0 0 1 ½ ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 * ½ 1 =14th Stean 5/15 ½ 0 ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ * ½ 16th Rellstab 3/15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 1 0 ½ *
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120 games, 1973-1974 - Hastings 1977/78
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The 53rd Hastings Christmas Chess Festival was held at the end of the year 1977. Fifteen grandmasters and masters were invited to compete in a round robin format at the premier event. The participants were (in order of ELO): Tigran Petrosian (2645), Vlastimil Hort (2620), Gyula Sax (2565), Roman Dzindzichashvili (2535), Evgeni Sveshnikov (2520), James Tarjan (2495), Leonid Shamkovich (2485), John Fedorowicz (2440), Shimon Kagan (2440), Simon Webb (2430), Jonathan Mestal (2420), John Nunn (2410), Jonathan Speelman (2395), Jonathan Tisdall (2375), and George Botterill (2350). The average of the combined ratings of the assembled players qualified the tournament as a category X event. Dzindzichashvili beat out the former world champion Petrosian as well as former three time Hasting winner Hort to take clear first place with +7 at the final. The final standings and crosstable are as follows: 01 Dzindzichashvili 10.5/14 * ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 1 02 Petrosian 9.5/14 ½ * ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 03 Sax 9.5/14 ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 04 Hort 9/14 ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 05 Mestel 8.5/14 ½ ½ ½ ½ * 0 ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 0 1 06 Tarjan 8/14 0 0 ½ ½ 1 * ½ ½ 1 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 07 Sveshnikov 7.5/14 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ * ½ 1 1 ½ 0 1 0 1 08 Speelman 7/14 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 09 Nunn 6.5/14 ½ 0 1 ½ 0 0 0 ½ * 1 1 1 0 1 0 10 Shamkovich 6.5/14 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 1 0 ½ 0 * 0 1 ½ 1 1 11 Fedorowicz 5.5/14 0 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 1 * ½ ½ 1 0 12 Webb 5.5/14 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 1 ½ 0 0 ½ * 1 ½ 1 13 Tisdall 4.5/14 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 ½ ½ 0 * 1 1 14 Kagan 3.5/14 0 ½ 0 0 1 0 1 ½ 0 0 0 ½ 0 * 0 15 Botterill 3.5/14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 1 0 1 0 0 1 *
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105 games, 1977-1978 - Hastings 1992/93
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The 68th Hastings Christmas Chess Festival was held from December 28th, 1992 to January 15th, 1993. This year's tournament saw increased sponsorship from the Hastings Borough Council as well as numerous local supporters, ending fears that the ongoing series of events would end. Eight grandmasters were invited to participate in the double round robin event, including (in order of ELO): Evgeny Bareev (2670), Lev Polugaevsky (2640), John Nunn (2595), Jonathan Speelman (2590), Judit Polgár (2575), Matthew Sadler (2515), Ilya Gurevich (2510), and Colin Crouch (2425). The average of the combined ratings of all the players qualified the tournament as a category XIII event. The time control for play was 40 moves in two hours followed by 20 moves in one hour. The final saw seasoned Bareev tied with 16 year old Polgár at 9/14 each. It was Bareev's third consecutive Hastings win, and Polgár's first. The final standings and crosstable are as follows: 1 Polgár 9/14 ** 11 0½ 1½ ½0 1½ 10 11
2 Bareev 9/14 00 ** 11 ½½ 10 1½ 1½ 11
3 Speelman 8/14 1½ 00 ** ½½ ½½ 1½ ½1 1½ 4 Sadler 7/14 0½ ½½ ½½ ** ½1 ½1 ½½ ½0 5 Nunn 7/14 ½1 01 ½½ ½0 ** 00 1½ ½1
6 Gurevich 7/14 0½ 0½ 0½ ½0 11 ** ½1 ½1
7 Polugaevsky 5.5/14 01 0½ ½0 ½½ 0½ ½0 ** 1½ 8 Crouch 3.5/14 00 00 0½ ½1 ½0 ½0 0½ **
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56 games, 1992-1993 - Havana 1962
[Under Construction; need to submit 112 games to the database.]
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119 games, 1962
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Kibitzing
