1938 Margate Premier, 20-29 April, Grand Hotel

1938 Margate Premier		Nat'y	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total
1	Alexander Alekhine	France	&;	½	0	1	1	1	½	1	1	1	7
2	Rudolf Spielmann	Austria	½	&;	1	½	½	½	1	½	1	½	6
3	Vladimirs Petrovs	Latvia	1	0	&;	0	1	1	0	1	½	1	5½
4	Eero Böök	Finland	0	½	1	&;	½	½	1	½	0	1	5
5	(Philip) Stuart Milner-Barry	England	0	½	0	½	&;	½	½	1	1	1	5
6	Harry Golombek	England	0	½	0	½	½	&;	1	½	1	½	4½
7	(Conor) Hugh O'D Alexander	England	½	0	1	0	½	0	&;	½	½	1	4
8	Edward Guthlac Sergeant	England	0	½	0	½	0	½	½	&;	1	½	3½
9	Vera Menchik	England	0	0	½	1	0	0	½	0	&;	1	3
10	Sir George Alan Thomas	England	0	½	0	0	0	½	0	½	0	&;	1½

1938 Margate Premier Reserves A

1938 Margate Premier Reserves A		Nat'y	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total
1	Ernst Ludwig Klein	Austria	&;	½	1	½	1	½	1	½	1	1	7
2	Miguel [Mojsze Mendel] Najdorf	Poland	½	&;	1	1	0	0	1	1	1	1	6½
3	Gerald Abrahams	England	0	0	&;	1	0	1	1	1	1	1	6
4	Nicolas Rossolimo	Greece	½	0	0	&;	1	1	½	1	1	1	6
5	Dr. Paul M List	Germany	0	1	1	0	&;	1	½	0	1	0	4½
6	Andrew Rowland Benedick Thomas	England	½	1	0	0	0	&;	1	½	0	1	4
7	Adrián García Conde	Mexico	0	0	0	½	½	0	&;	½	1	1	3½
8	Frits van Seters	Belgium	½	0	0	0	1	½	½	&;	½	½	3½
9	Baruch Harold Wood	England	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	½	&;	1	2½
10	Henry Holwell Cole	England	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	½	0	&;	1½

1938 Margate Premier Reserves B

1938 Margate Premier Reserves B		Nat'y	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total
1	Salo Landau	Netherlands	&;	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	½	7½
2	George Koltanowski	Belgium	1	&;	½	1	½	½	1	1	½	1	7
3	Lodewijk Prins	Netherlands	0	½	&;	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	6½
4	Karel Opocensky	Czechoslovakia	0	0	1	&;	1	½	½	1	1	1	6
5	Imre König	Yugoslavia	0	½	0	0	&;	1	½	1	1	1	5
6	(William) Arthur Winser	England	0	½	0	½	0	&;	1	0	1	1	4
7	Francis George Tims Collins	England	0	0	0	½	½	0	&;	1	1	½	3½
8	Leslie Charles Gwyn Dewing	England	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	&;	½	1	2½
9	Arthur Eva1	England	0	½	0	0	0	0	0	½	&;	½	1½
10	Leonard Illingworth	England	½	0	0	0	0	0	½	0	½	&;	1½

¹ BCM's crosstable gives 'A. Eva'; however, The Times, 20 April 1938, gives the player as Arthur Eva.

1938 Margate Premier Reserves C

1938 Margate Premier Reserves C		Nat'y	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total
1	Georg Meyer	Latvia	&;	½	1	½	1	½	1	½	½	1	6½
2	Gerrit Roelof Diederik van Doesburgh	Netherlands	½	&;	0	½	1	½	1	1	1	1	6½
3	Willem Andreas Theodorus Schelfhout	Netherlands	0	1	&;	0	1	1	0	1	½	1	5½
4	Sonja Graf	Germany	½	½	1	&;	0	1	1	½	½	0	5
5	Christopher Barclay Heath	England	0	0	0	1	&;	1	0	1	1	1	5
6	Brian Patrick Reilly	Ireland	½	½	0	0	0	&;	1	1	1	1	5
7	Zigfrids Solmanis	Latvia	0	0	1	0	1	0	&;	1	½	1	4½
8	William Skillicorn	England	½	0	0	½	0	0	0	&;	1	1	3
9	Francis Noel Jameson	England	½	0	½	½	0	0	½	0	&;	½	2½
10	Harold John Snowden	England	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	½	&;	1½

Other Sections (results from BCM, plus Thanet Advertiser - Tuesday 03 May 1938)

Major A: (1) Charles William Roberts 7½/9; (2) Herbert Arthur Melvin 7; (3) Edmund Arthur Beamish 6; (4) George Hadfield (Salisbury Junior Boys' School, Liverpool) 5; (5-7) Hugh Windsor Fiesch Heneage, Ronald Lee-Johnson, Edward Buddel Puckridge 3½; (8-10) R A Bridgwater, Frederick William Flear (Welwyn Garden City), Edith Martha Holloway 3.

Major B: (1-2) Edward Willingham Brocklesby, C H Thorogood 6½/9; (3) Leo/Leiser Schächter 6; (4-5) Arnold Charles Lynch, George Arthur Peck 5; (6) Maurice Ellinger 4½; (7) Ernest Montgomery Jellie 4; (8) Miss Agnes Margaret Crum (Edinburgh) 3; (9) Miss Audrey Bourne Poupard (Wanstead) 2½; (10) (Sydney) Hugh Brocklesby (Margate) 2.

Short Major: (1) Aibhistín de Búrca (a.k.a. Austin Bourke) (Waterford) 4/5; (2) George Philip Stanley Coy 3½; (3) J Stuart-Hodgson 3; (4) A L Gordon 2½; (5-6) Russell France Bavington Jones, R S Lockwood 1.

First Class A: (1) Francis Avery Sisley 8/9; (2) Miss M Andrews 6½; (3) W Henderson 6; (4) Carl Sigmund Hirschmann [as of November 1938 became Charles Stanley Hunter] 5½; (5) J Lang 5; (6) Charles Henry Taylor 4½; (7-8) William Courtenay Dawes Cruttenden (Hastings), John Keeble (Norwich) 3; (9) L W C Massey 2½; (10) F M Jackson 1.

First Class B: (1) Francis Harry Senneck (Sherborne) 6½/9; (2) Walter Chandler¹ (Liverpool) 6; (3-4) Rev. Ernest Clement Mortimer, W G Jackson 5½; (5) Herbert Norman Saffery Heath 5; (6-7) John Spedan Lewis, Dr. Marcus Wechsler 4; (8) John G Hayes (Hong Kong; IRL) 3½; (9) Mrs M Healey 2½; (10) C H Gadsden 0. [¹ the results page in BCM, June 1938, omitted this player but a correction was published in the August 1938 issue, p353-354. There were other errors as shown by a comparison with the Thanet Advertiser. Also, the Liverpool Echo, 30 January 1939, carried a story that John Spedan Lewis was so impressed by Walter Chandler, a pupil of Salisbury Junior Boys' School, Liverpool, who beat him in this tournament, that he offered work to him and two other boys from the school who took part in the tournament, John Evans and George Hadfield, at the London HQ of John Lewis, along with their schoolmaster Edgar Pennell.]

Short First Class A: (1) E Marchant 5/5; (2) J R/N Douglass 3; (3) C C Coote 2½; (4-5) D E Winks, C S Saxton 2; (6) A J Peck ½.

Short First Class B: (1) J L Brodie (London) 4½/5; (2-3) Rev. E G Bevan, R A Walker 2½; (4-5) S G Hayes, Miss Katharine Tate Austin 2; (6) Ashley Cyril Vernieux (Welwyn Garden City) 1½.

Short First Class C: (1-3) Arnold William Gunstone 4/5; (2-3) Miss Mary Henniker-Heaton, Miss Kate Hirst 3; (4) A J Comber 3; (5) Ronald Desmond Fleming 2; (6) H H S Payne 0.

Second Class A: (1) W M Bussell 7½/9; (2) S Hunt 7; (3) John Evans (Salisbury Junior Boys' School, Liverpool) 6½; (4) Frank Percival Pounce (Rottingdean) 6; (5) H D Bell 4; (6) Miss Emily Eliza Abraham (Deal) 3½; (7-9) Frank Miles Argrave, J B Morgan, Mrs Helen Muriel Cobbold 3; (10) Mme. Grace Alekhine (née Wishaar) 1½.

Second Class B: (1-2) Miss Margaret Eleanor Lander, William Samuel Laremore 6½; (3) C Carmichael 5½; (4) H O Boger 5; (5) W J Barnett 4½; (6-7) J Francis, W M Batten 4; (8-10) Mrs Melita Ida Elizabeth Seyd (née Krohn) (London), Mrs Clara Margaret MacVean, Mrs Heath 3.

Short Second Class A: (1) John Edward Holt 4½/5; (2-3) Elaine Saunders, R C Bishop 3½; (4) A C Evans 2; (5) C H Plant 1½; (6) Rev. E G Wood 0.

Short Second Class B: (1) Dr. Ian/Israel Wolf Gallant 5/5; (2-4) Miss D E Budd, Miss Marjorie Colville Strachey (London), Frank Merlin Strawson (Richmond) 3; (5) A Pelissier 1; (6) J W Read 0.

Third Class: (1) A Hart 9/9; (2) John T Wolstenholme 6½; (3) Arthur Trimnell 6; (4-5) Rev. (Francis Vivian Friend) Glynn Grylls, John E Coleman (Grays) 5; (6) Frederick George Boyce, Edouard [Edward] Carre Suren 4; (7) Miss Edith Maud Eleanor John Goodacre (Cheltenham) 2½; (8) Mrs Hollins, O.B.E. 2; (9) Mrs Cole 0.

Short Third Class: (1) A Hart 4/5; (2-4) G Mead, E J Sharpley, Charles Gerald Verey 3; (5) A C Bannister 1; (6) R G Love 0.

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Junior Tournaments

Under 18: (1) T Hayes 10/11; (2) G Hayes 9; (3) Percival John Charles Turner 8; (4) D L Hoare 6; (5-6) D J Young, W L Moody 5; (7-8) G J Turner, B Harman 4; (9) E C Banks 3; (10-11) Cyril Ernest G Twyman, J F Rowney ½

Under 15, Section A: (1) J Clough 9½/11; (2) Keith M Fleming 9; (3) R Bugden 8½; (4-5) S E Bushell, A Holden 7; (6-7) James D Wauchope, Raymond Victor Rickwood 5½; (8) P H Cooper 5; (9) J Leonard 3½; (10) A Prosser 3; (11) J Marks 1½; (12) C J Millett 1.

Under 15, Section B: (1) R Cooper 10/11; (2) P Beveridge 8½; (3-4) A Gray, H P Dodd 7; (5) Peter D Murton 6; (6) A Riordan 5; (7) Newton K St Clare-Tregilgas 4; (8) P Whelan 3; (9) J Burke 2½; (10-11) N B Evans, A S Middleton 0 [?!].

Under 15, Section C: (1) W Stephenson 11/11; (3) E A Deed 10; (3) Norman Walter Rickwood 8½; (4-6) K C Burden, Bernard Gilbert Ellender, C E Hall 7; (7) D E Crump 4½; (8) D D'Eath 3; (9) H J Knight 2½; (10) J G Baxter 2; (11) R A Lawrence 1; (12) F Cocks ½.

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A lightning tournament was held in the top section (consisting of Alekhine, Petrov, Book, Klein, Najdorf, Opocensky, Rossolimo, and Conde), Alekhine was first and Najdorf second.

The photographs of Dr. Alekhine and Spielmann were taken by E. Brown; the other two were taken by Sunbeam Photo Ltd., 156 Northdown Road, Cliftonville, Margate, from whom any photographs taken during the Congress may be obtained.

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BCM, May 1938, p208

Margate Chess Congress.—This year the Margate Congress has beaten all previous records with a total of over 200 entries. The quality of the entries in the Premier Reserves is especially noteworthy. The Reserves will be played in three sections and include a formidable array of foreign chess masters. From abroad there are: K. Opocensky (Czechoslovakia), S. Landau, L. Prins, F. van Seters, W. A. T. Schelfhout (Holland), I. Konig (Yugoslavia), E. Klein (Austria), G. Koltanowski (Belgium), Sonja Graf, P. List (Germany), B. Reilly (Ireland), N. S. Rossolimo (France), Z. Solmainis (Latvia) and a welcome surprise in the Polish master, M. Najdorf. The English players are G. Abrahams, H. H. Cole, F. G. T. Collins, A. G. [Adrián García] Conde (who should have been classed in the foreign entries under Mexico but has been with us so long that we cannot help regarding him as a member of the English contingent), L. C. G. Dewing, A. Eva, C. B. Heath, L. Illingworth, F. N. Jameson, F. G. T. Collins, H. J. Snowden, A. R. B. Thomas, W. A. Winser and B. H. Wood.

Another point of interest is the entry of the entire team of the Salisbury Road School, Liverpool. It will be remembered that G. [George] Hadfield, their first board, won the second class section at the Blackpool Congress last year—ample testimony to the quality of instruction delivered by his teacher, Mr. E. [Edgar] Pennell.

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Manchester Guardian, 25 April 1938

"At a simultaneous exhibition [date - the rest day, Sunday 24 April?] Spielmann, who has never given one in England before, met 25 opponents, of whom he beat 20, drew with three, and lost to two, J. Brodie. from London, and little Elaine Saunders, the girl champion."

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File Updated

Date	Notes
2016	File created. All 45 games from the Premier.
27 February 2023	Added crosstables and results, plus 13+5 games/part-games from other sections and events.
28 February 2023	Added 3+1 games/part-games played by Imre König in Premier Reserves B: (1) Winser (rd 4); (2) Landau (rd 6, part-game); (3) Tims-Collins (rd 8); (4) Opocensky (rd 9). Many thanks to Andy Ansel.
28 February 2023	Added 6+1 games/part-games from the three Premier Reserves tournaments, sent by Ulrich Tamm, for which many thanks.
20 January 2024	Added the game M.Najdorf 1-0 H.Cole, Premier Reserves A, rd 9. Many thanks to Ulrich Tamm.
18 March 2024	The complete score of Van Doesburgh 1-0 Skillicorn (Premier Reserves c, rd 2) is now available.