1951 (1st) Paignton Premier, 17-22 September, Oldway Mansion, Paignton

1951 Paignton Premier		Residence	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Total
1	Harry Golombek	Chalfont St Giles	&;	1	½	1	1	1	1	1	6½
2	Max Euwe	Amsterdam	0	&;	1	1	1	1	1	1	6
3	Jan Hein Donner	Netherlands	½	0	&;	½	1	1	1	½	4½
4	Leonard William Barden	Oxford	0	0	½	&;	½	½	½	1	3
5	Andrew Rowland Benedick Thomas	Tiverton	0	0	0	½	&;	½	1	1	3
6	Francis Ernest Appleyard Kitto	Exminster	0	0	0	½	½	&;	½	1	2½
7	Ronald MacKay Bruce	Plymouth	0	0	0	½	0	½	&;	½	1½
8	John Bertram Goodman	Plymouth	0	0	½	0	0	0	½	&;	1

Round 1 of the 1st Paignton Congress, 17 September 1951
Photo published in CHESS/17/194, November 1951, p26

Other Sections

Premier Reserves A: (1) Harold Israel (London) 5½/7; (2) (Charles) Derek Simpson Paffley (Wakefield) 5; (3) Isaac Taylor Sifton (Bampton) 4; (4) Stanley Gibbins (Kenilworth) 3½; (5-8) Baruch H Wood (Sutton Coldfield), Arthur Richard Chamberlain (Birmingham), (Edwin) Neville Hawkins (Weymouth), Bertram Goulding Brown (Cambridge) 2½. Wood retired through illness at the conclusion of the fourth round.

Premier Reserves B: (1-2) Henry Holwell Cole (London), Rowena Mary Bruce (Plymouth) 5/7; (3-4) Grant Berriman (Australia), James Rushton (Huddersfield - president, British Chess Federation, 1973-76) 4½; (5) C[harles?] Cordel (Leicester) 3; (6-7) John James O'Hanlon (Dublin), Jack Dennis Rosse (London) 2½; (8) Herbert Francis Gook (Croydon) 1.

Premier Reserves C: (1-2) Ivan Frederic Grix (St Austell), Rev. Ernest Clement Mortimer (Ruislip) 5/7; (3-4) Ivan Robert Napier, Joseph M Soesan 4½; (5) M Biggs (London) 3½; (6) G W Smith (London) 2½; (7-8) Reginald Boucher Copleston (Sidmouth), Capt. Hugh Windsor Fiesch Heneage (Brighton) 1½.

Premier Reserves D: (1) David Le Brun Jones (Woodford Green) 6/7; (2-3) Harry Gethin Thorp Matchett (Birmingham), Arthur Emerson Mercer (London) 4½; (4-5) D J Collins (Harrow), John Vaughan Ovens (Birmingham) 3½; (6) Ronald Lee-Johnson (Broxbourne) 3; (7) William Colin Rickard (St Austell) 2; (8) George L Sutton (New Barnet) 1.

Prize-winners in other sections were—

Major: (1) D M Woods (Mitcham) 5/7; (2) M R Porter (Ilford) 4; (3) Keith Edward Charles Budge (Plymouth) 3.

First Class A: (1) Alexander Schofield (Chesterfield) 5½/7; (2) H Grover (Bournemouth) 5; (3-4) G C Walker, Robin Humphries Rushton (Luton) 4.

First Class B: (1) Frank Duffill (Manchester) 5½; (2-3) D Munro (Edinburgh), E C Baker (London) 5.

First Class C: (1) G Booth 6/7; (2) William Wyndham Tatum 5½; (3) N L Johnson 4½.

First Class D: (1) Herbert Arthur Melvin 6½/7; (2) A F Mitchell (London) 6; (3) John W Naylor 4.

Second Class: (1) C J Ball 5½/7; (2) E Fairbrother 5; (3) F W Brown 4½.

Third Class A: (1) W J Charters 7/7; (2) R Derney 5½; (3) E W Wood 4½.

Third Class B: (1) Ernest Henry Ladbury 4½; (2) H R Rowcliffe 3.

Other players who took part or who were present in Paignton (as listed in CHESS/17/194, November 1951, p26 - presumably non-prizewinners in 1st/2nd/3rd Class events - sections and scores not known): J K Tucker (Hayes), R A Donald (Edinburgh), Stanley Sedgwick (London), George Robert Cottew (Exeter), R F Rowe (Plymouth), C O'Leary (Cork), Richard Cyril Fogwill (Paignton), Kate Harris Passmore (Exeter), W J Lambert (Torquay), Alfred Herman Reeve (Great Missenden), L Turnovsky (Chippenham), B G Locke (Hatch End), W D Brown (Barnet), Wolfgang Heidenfeld (South Africa), Robert G Wade (New Zealand), Harold Meek (London - controller).

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File Updated

Date	Notes
9 April 2018	First upload.
20 June 2022	Improved crosstable, added forenames.
18 February 2023	Further cosmetic changes to results and crosstable.
28 August 2024	Previously we had 14 games and 3 part-games of the 28 played in the Premier, but now we have 21 complete game scores.