1953 British Chess Championship, Hastings, 10-21 August • 1952« »1954

1953 British Chess Championship		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Total
1	Daniel Abraham Yanofsky	◊ 0/9	♦ 1/15	◊ 1/14	♦ 1/4	◊ 1/3	◊ 1/2	♦ 1/25	♦ 1/8	◊ ½/5	♦ 1/10	◊ 1/7	9½
2	Philip Stuart Milner-Barry	◊ 1/6	♦ 1/27	◊ 1/24	♦ ½/3	◊ 1/18	♦ 0/1	◊ 0/8	♦ ½/4	◊ 1/19	♦ 1/5	◊ 1/10	8
3	Robert Graham Wade	◊ 1/16	♦ ½/9	◊ 1/23	◊ ½/2	♦ 0/1	♦ 1/24	◊ 1/15	♦ 0/5	◊ 1/8	♦ 1/11	◊ ½/4	7½
4	Leonard William Barden	◊ ½/13	♦ 1/5	◊ ½/9	◊ 0/1	♦ ½/28	♦ 1/12	◊ 1/20	◊ ½/2	♦ ½/7	◊ 1/21	♦ ½/3	7
5	Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander	♦ ½/7	◊ 0/4	♦ 1/31	♦ ½/20	◊ ½/12	♦ 1/16	◊ 1/24	◊ 1/3	♦ ½/1	◊ 0/2	◊ 1/11	7
6	Harry Golombek	♦ 0/2	♦ ½/22	◊ ½/16	♦ ½/27	◊ 1/32	◊ 1/30	♦ ½/10	◊ 0/7	♦ 1/25	◊ 1/19	♦ 1/13	7
7	Andrew Rowland Benedick Thomas	◊ ½/5	♦ ½/12	◊ 1/27	♦ 0/18	◊ ½/16	♦ ½/14	◊ 1/26	♦ 1/6	◊ ½/4	♦ 1/8	♦ 0/1	6½
8	Geoffrey F Harris	♦ 0/10	♦ ½/16	◊ 1/22	◊ 1/23	♦ ½/9	◊ 1/11	♦ 1/2	◊ 0/1	♦ 0/3	◊ 0/7	◊ 1/18	6
9	Dennis Morton Horne	♦ 1/1	◊ ½/3	♦ ½/4	◊ ½/11	◊ ½/8	♦ 0/13	♦ 0/19	◊ ½/28	♦ 1/27	◊ 1/16	♦ ½/15	6
10	Arnold Yorwarth Green	◊ 1/8	♦ ½/11	◊ 1/20	♦ 0/24	◊ 1/30	♦ 0/15	◊ ½/6	♦ 1/16	♦ 1/21	◊ 0/1	♦ 0/2	6
11	David Vincent Hooper	◊ 1/12	◊ ½/10	♦ ½/30	♦ ½/9	◊ ½/15	♦ 0/8	◊ 1/18	♦ 1/24	◊ 1/20	◊ 0/3	♦ 0/5	6
12	Richard Hilary Newman	♦ 0/11	◊ ½/7	♦ ½/28	◊ 1/31	♦ ½/5	◊ 0/4	♦ 1/30	♦ 0/20	◊ 1/17	◊ ½/15	♦ 1/19	6
13	Gerald Abrahams	♦ ½/4	◊ ½/28	♦ 0/25	◊ ½/14	♦ 1/27	◊ 1/9	♦ 0/21	◊ ½/26	◊ 1/18	♦ 1/20	◊ 0/6	6
14	Alan Phillips	♦ ½/26	◊ ½/19	♦ 0/1	♦ ½/13	◊ ½/31	◊ ½/7	♦ ½/28	♦ 0/18	◊ 1/32	◊ 1/25	♦ 1/21	6
15	Thomas H Wise	♦ ½/19	◊ 0/1	♦ 1/17	◊ 1/26	♦ ½/11	◊ 1/10	♦ 0/3	◊ 0/21	◊ ½/24	♦ ½/12	◊ ½/9	5½
16	Denis Victor Mardle	♦ 0/3	◊ ½/8	♦ ½/6	◊ 1/17	♦ ½/7	◊ 0/5	♦ 1/29	◊ 0/10	♦ 1/26	♦ 0/9	◊ 1/24	5½
17	Stanley Clifford Davey	◊ ½/18	♦ 0/24	◊ 0/15	♦ 0/16	◊ 1/22	♦ 0/29	◊ 1/31	♦ 1/23	♦ 0/12	◊ 1/26	◊ 1/27	5½
18	Philip Norman Wallis	♦ ½/17	◊ ½/26	♦ 1/19	◊ 1/7	♦ 0/2	◊ 0/25	♦ 0/11	◊ 1/14	♦ 0/13	◊ 1/28	♦ 0/8	5
19	Dr. Stefan Fazekas	◊ ½/15	♦ ½/14	◊ 0/18	♦ 0/21	◊ 1/29	♦ 1/31	◊ 1/9	◊ 1/25	♦ 0/2	♦ 0/6	◊ 0/12	5
20	Percy Baldwin Cook	♦ ½/31	◊ 1/29	♦ 0/10	◊ ½/5	♦ ½/21	◊ 1/28	♦ 0/4	◊ 1/12	♦ 0/11	◊ 0/13	♦ ½/22	5
21	Ronald Frank Boxall	♦ 0/23	◊ 0/25	♦ 1/29	◊ 1/19	◊ ½/20	♦ ½/26	◊ 1/13	♦ 1/15	◊ 0/10	♦ 0/4	◊ 0/14	5
22	Peter Hugh Clarke	♦ 0/30	◊ ½/6	♦ 0/8	◊ ½/29	♦ 0/17	◊ 1/27	♦ ½/23	◊ 1/32	♦ ½/28	♦ ½/24	◊ ½/20	5
23	Thomas Keith Hemingway	◊ 1/21	◊ ½/30	♦ 0/3	♦ 0/8	◊ 0/26	♦ ½/32	◊ ½/22	◊ 0/17	♦ 1/29	◊ ½/31	♦ 1/28	5
24	Reginald Walter Bonham	♦ 1/28	◊ 1/17	♦ 0/2	◊ 1/10	♦ ½/25	◊ 0/3	♦ 0/5	◊ 0/11	♦ ½/15	◊ ½/22	♦ 0/16	4½
25	Michael J Franklin	◊ 0/27	♦ 1/21	◊ 1/13	♦ ½/30	◊ ½/24	♦ 1/18	◊ 0/1	♦ 0/19	◊ 0/6	♦ 0/14	♦ ½/32	4½
26	Herbert Gibson Rhodes	◊ ½/14	♦ ½/18	◊ ½/32	♦ 0/15	♦ 1/23	◊ ½/21	♦ 0/7	♦ ½/13	◊ 0/16	♦ 0/17	◊ 1/31	4½
27	Theodore Henry Tylor	♦ 1/25	◊ 0/2	♦ 0/7	◊ ½/6	◊ 0/13	♦ 0/22	◊ 1/32	♦ 1/30	◊ 0/9	◊ ½/29	♦ 0/17	4
28	Harold Israel	◊ 0/24	♦ ½/13	◊ ½/12	♦ 1/32	◊ ½/4	♦ 0/20	◊ ½/14	♦ ½/9	◊ ½/22	♦ 0/18	◊ 0/23	4
29	Harry Ivor Woolverton	◊ ½/32	♦ 0/20	◊ 0/21	♦ ½/22	♦ 0/19	◊ 1/17	◊ 0/16	♦ 1/31	◊ 0/23	♦ ½/27	♦ ½/30	4
30	John H Pollitt	◊ 1/22	♦ ½/23	◊ ½/11	◊ ½/25	♦ 0/10	♦ 0/6	◊ 0/12	◊ 0/27	♦ 0/31	♦ ½/32	◊ ½/29	3½
31	Victor John Anthony Russ	◊ ½/20	♦ ½/32	◊ 0/5	♦ 0/12	♦ ½/14	◊ 0/19	♦ 0/17	◊ 0/29	◊ 1/30	♦ ½/23	♦ 0/26	3
32	John Bertram Goodman	♦ ½/29	◊ ½/31	♦ ½/26	◊ 0/28	♦ 0/6	◊ ½/23	♦ 0/27	♦ 0/22	♦ 0/14	◊ ½/30	◊ ½/25	3

1953 British Ladies' Chess Championship • 1951« »1954

1953 British Ladies Championship		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Total
1	Eileen Betsy Tranmer	♦ 1/13	◊ 1/15	♦ 1/6	◊ ½/4	◊ 1/2	♦ 0/3	◊ 1/8	♦ 1/5	♦ 1/7	◊ 1/12	◊ 1/10	9½
2	Rowena Mary Bruce	♦ ½/4	◊ 1/9	♦ 1/7	◊ 1/5	♦ 0/1	◊ 1/12	◊ ½/3	◊ 1/8	♦ 1/6	◊ 1/13	♦ 1/14	9
3	(Patricia) Anne Sunnucks	♦ 1/12	◊ 1/17	♦ 0/5	◊ 1/6	♦ 1/4	◊ 1/1	♦ ½/2	◊ ½/7	♦ 1/8	◊ 1/14	♦ 1/13	9
4	Dorothea (Dody) Denise Alma Bourdillon	◊ ½/2	♦ 1/8	◊ 1/14	♦ ½/1	◊ 0/3	♦ 0/15	♦ ½/11	◊ 1/17	◊ ½/5	♦ 1/16	♦ 1/12	7
5	Cicely Mary Murphy	◊ ½/16	♦ 1/18	◊ 1/3	♦ 0/2	◊ 1/15	♦ 0/8	♦ 1/17	◊ 0/1	♦ ½/4	◊ 1/6	♦ 1/7	7
6	(Miss) L Lauder	◊ 1/11	♦ 1/10	◊ 0/1	♦ 0/3	◊ 0/7	♦ 1/14	◊ 1/9	♦ 1/15	◊ 0/2	♦ 0/5	◊ 1/17	6
7	Mary Henniker-Heaton1	◊ ½/18	♦ 1/16	◊ 0/2	♦ 0/8	♦ 1/6	◊ 1/11	◊ 1/15	♦ ½/3	◊ 0/1	♦ ½/9	◊ 0/5	5½
8	Minnie Musgrave	♦ 1/9	◊ 0/4	♦ ½/12	◊ 1/7	♦ 1/13	◊ 1/5	♦ 0/1	♦ 0/2	◊ 0/3	♦ 0/10	◊ 1/20	5½
9	Sarah Margaret Steedman	◊ 0/8	♦ 0/2	◊ 0/16	♦ 1/20	♦ 1/10	◊ 1/13	♦ 0/6	◊ 1/18	♦ 0/12	◊ ½/7	♦ 1/19	5½
10	Joan Frances Doulton	◊ 1/19	◊ 0/6	♦ 0/17	♦ 0/14	◊ 0/9	◊ 1/20	♦ 1/18	◊ 1/12	♦ ½/15	◊ 1/8	♦ 0/1	5½
11	(Jean) Lesley (Mary) Fletcher2	♦ 0/6	◊ ½/12	♦ 1/18	◊ 1/16	♦ 0/17	♦ 0/7	◊ ½/4	◊ 0/13	♦ 1/20	◊ 1/19	♦ ½/15	5½
12	Jean P M Craker	◊ 0/3	♦ ½/11	◊ ½/8	♦ 1/19	◊ 1/14	♦ 0/2	◊ 1/16	♦ 0/10	◊ 1/9	♦ 0/1	◊ 0/4	5
13	(Mrs) Jane Sadler Rees3	◊ 0/1	♦ 0/14	◊ 1/20	♦ 1/18	◊ 0/8	♦ 0/9	◊ 1/19	♦ 1/11	◊ 1/16	♦ 0/2	◊ 0/3	5
14	Millicent Louise Battrum	♦ 0/17	◊ 1/13	♦ 0/4	◊ 1/10	♦ 0/12	◊ 0/6	♦ 1/20	◊ 1/19	◊ 1/18	♦ 0/3	◊ 0/2	5
15	Deirdre Colmer	◊ 1/20	♦ 0/1	♦ 1/19	◊ 1/17	♦ 0/5	◊ 1/4	♦ 0/7	◊ 0/6	◊ ½/10	♦ 0/18	◊ ½/11	5
16	Leah Margaret Hogarth	♦ ½/5	◊ 0/7	♦ 1/9	♦ 0/11	◊ 1/19	◊ ½/17	♦ 0/12	◊ 1/20	♦ 0/13	◊ 0/4	◊ 1/18	5
17	Hilda Florence Chater	◊ 1/14	♦ 0/3	◊ 1/10	♦ 0/15	◊ 1/11	♦ ½/16	◊ 0/5	♦ 0/4	♦ 0/19	◊ ½/20	♦ 0/6	4
18	Mary Dew	♦ ½/7	◊ 0/5	◊ 0/11	◊ 0/13	♦ ½/20	♦ 1/19	◊ 0/10	♦ 0/9	♦ 0/14	◊ 1/15	♦ 0/16	3
19	Barbara Lally4	♦ 0/10	♦ 1/20	◊ 0/15	◊ 0/12	♦ 0/16	◊ 0/18	♦ 0/13	♦ 0/14	◊ 1/17	♦ 0/11	◊ 0/9	2
20	Lucy Anness5	♦ 0/15	◊ 0/19	♦ 0/13	◊ 0/9	◊ ½/18	♦ 0/10	◊ 0/14	♦ 0/16	◊ 0/11	♦ ½/17	♦ 0/8	1

¹ Her full name was in fact Mary Araluen Elizabeth Anne Henniker-Heaton (1904-1972)
² Miss L Fletcher (as given in sources; also "Miss Elliott-Fletcher") was the sister of Antoinette Mary Hope Elliott-Fletcher (b 1936), who took part in the girls' championship in 1954, as she was also from Richmond. Full name Jean Lesley Mary Fletcher, b 1932, known as Lesley. She played for Surrey in 1960. She married Robert Hans Pinner (1925-2004) in 1962 - he also played chess for Surrey in 1960. Lesley Pinner died in 1982 in Richmond.
³ Jane Sadler Rees (née Davidson, b 25 May 1884, d 1974)
⁴ Barbara Lally (11 April 1920 - 11 June 1972). She met Denis Mardle during this tournament and they were married on 15 May 1954 in Luton. After Barbara's death from cancer in 1972 Denis Mardle married a second time and died in 2000 (Beds and Herts Pictorial - Tuesday 18 May 1954, p9; click here for a document providing a comprehensive biography of Denis Mardle)
⁵ Lucy Anness (14 April 1888 - 2nd q. of 1973) Brief obit, BCM, August 1973, p329 & longer obit, SCCU Bulletin, June 1973. "She first became interested in chess in 1938 when headmistress of Aylesbury Senior School for Girls, Bromley, Kent, and immediately put chess on the school curriculum. When she retired in 1952, she threw her energies into the organisation of Junior Chess and became Kent School Organiser and then Junior Organiser, building up the Kent School Chess League from 27 schools in 1953 to 61 in 1961. For many years she also assisted in organising the S.C.C.U. Championships when these were held at Southsea and then at Bognor Regis. In recognition of these services in 1959 the Union elected her their first and only lady President. During all this time, she had close connections with the Bromley and Beckenham clubs and became assistant secretary of the Beckenham Chess Club which met in her own home from 1952 until 1966." Her photo appears on this website here.

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1953 BCF Major Open

Rank	1953 BCF Major Open	Total
1-2	(Thomas) John Beach (Liverpool), Derek F Griffiths (Birmingham)	9
3	Kenneth Ray Smith (USA)	7½
4-6	Michael Davis (Bexhill), Kenneth Leslie Gardner (Birmingham), Laurence Alfred John Glyde (Hastings)	7
7-9	David Edward Lloyd (London), Kenneth William Lloyd (London), Walter James E Yeeles (Kent)	6½
10-16	Geoffrey J Martin, Brian J Moore, D J Pearce, Dr Jakob Adolf Seitz (Italy), Peter Starling (Middlesbrough), (Alexander) Aird Thomson (Glasgow), Stephen Wilkinson	6
17-21	William Broome, Bernard Cafferty (Blackburn), Julian Thomas Farrand (Hampstead), Mrs Gisela Kahn Gresser (USA), Ralph Carter Woodthorpe	5½
22-25	Philip Edward Collier, Charles Reuben Gurnhill, Harry Gethin Thorp Matchett, Jack Dennis Rosse1 (Middlesex)	5
26-28	Arthur Hall (Hampstead), Francis Harry Senneck, A C Sutton	4½
29	Edmund George Ansell (Manchester), Alfred Eva, Thomas Russell (Glasgow), Joseph Maurice Soesan	4
30-33	D H Beattie (Glasgow), John James O’Hanlon (Portadown), Otto Henry Hardy (Batley), Albert Walter William Tulip (Hastings)	3

¹ from Lithuania, a violinist by profession: changed name from Jacob Rosselson to Jack Dennis Rosse in 1949. Born 7 November 1900, died 1989. Not related to Leon Rosselson.

1953 BCF MINOR OPEN

(1) Leslie E Vine 8/11; (2-5) Brian Halliwell, P Hamburger, A Hills, Robin Humphries Rushton 7½; (6-9) Peter Hannan, A C Mercer, Raymond Frederick Streater, G W White 7; (10-11) Donald Gould, Peter M Shaw 6½; (12-13) J Edge, W A Johnston 6; (14-23) Edwin Breckon Chapman, Dr. John Edward H Creed, (Edward) Douglas Fawcett, Herbert Francis Gook, Rev. Arthur Percival Lacy Hulbert, Rev. William Rawson Greenhalgh, Michael Lipton, Harry Starbuck Littlechild, Rev. Herbert Peach, Patrick Humphrey Sullivan 5½; (24-26) D M Polley, Rev. Kenneth Stuart Procter, George Frederick Ramsay 5; (27-28) Sydney Harold C Lucas, Arthur T Watson 4½; (29-32) A Archer, Gordon R Evans, Leslie Elliott Fletcher, H Taylor 4; (33-34) Daniel Castello, Maurice Ellinger 3½; (35) A G Stevens 3; (36) William John C H Burges 2½.

Second Class A: (1) James Joseph Walsh 9½/11; (2) George Arthur Peck 9; (3-4) Rev. Henry Middleton Blackett, Gregory Owen John Melitus 7; (5) P G Robinson 6½; (6) H E Baxter 6; (7) M J Wilkes 5; (8) Henry Thomas Piaggio 4½; (9) R J Braunton 4; (10) F C Shorter 3½; (11) A Terrett 3; (12) Mrs A G Lewis 0.

Second Class B: (1) E Mann 8½/10; (2-3) W N Calvert, Thomas W Sweby 6½; (4-5) E F Cartwright, John H Wall 5½; (6-7) Miss N F Harris, Charles Hatch 4½; (8-9) A J Davies, F Passingham 4; (10) G H Braunton 3; (11) Peter Paul Crotty 2.

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1953 British Under-21 Championship, YMCA, Dale End, Birmingham, 30 March - 11 April

1953 British Under-21 Championship		Resid.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total
1	Derek Francis Kenneth Griffiths	Birmingham	&;	1	0	½	1	0	1	1	1	1	6½
2	James B Howson1	Eltham	0	&;	0	½	1	1	1	½	1	1	6
3	Geoffrey J Martin	Ilford	1	1	&;	½	0	½	0	1	1	1	6
4	Malcolm Neil Barker	Birmingham	½	½	½	&;	0	½	½	1	1	1	5½
5	Kenneth Leslie Gardner	Solihull	0	0	1	1	&;	1	½	0	1	1	5½
6	Bernard Cafferty	Blackburn	1	0	½	½	0	&;	½	½	1	½	4½
7	James B Phipps	Birmingham	0	0	1	½	½	½	&;	½	0	1	4
8	David Edward Lloyd	Birmingham	0	½	0	0	1	½	½	&;	½	1	4
9	Ralph N Shinn	Worcester	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	½	&;	1	2½
10	John H Watts	Birmingham	0	0	0	0	0	½	0	0	0	&;	½

N.B. this inaugural U21 championship event was held as part of the Birmingham Easter Congress, which ran from 30 March to 11 April 1953 at the YMCA, Dale End, Birmingham. Sources of info: CHESS, May 1953, p146; BCM, May 1953, pps 119-121. The highest placed Midlander also took the Midlands U21 title - that was DF Griffiths.

¹ Note that the J.T. Howson here was believed by Bernard Cafferty not to be the same player as the better-known J. B. (James) Howson but I'm beginning to think it must be JB Howson after all - JS

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1953 BRITISH GIRLS’ AND BOYS’ CHAMPIONSHIPS [BCM, May 1953, pps 121-122]

... these two events, which took place in the Hastings Chess Club, the second and third weeks of April. The girls’ event [1953 British Girls' Under-18 Championship - 6-10 April, with a championship-deciding adjournment being played on 11 April] was run on American lines, with ten competitors, and resulted as follows—

(1) Myrtle Barnes 7½; (2) Mavis Stanbridge 7; (3-4) Margaret Wood (Sutton Coldfield) and Heather Carpenter 6; (5) Margaret Wood (Bicester) 5; (6) Heather Angel 4½; (7) Caroline Matthews 4; (8) Janice Millross 2½; (9) Janice Hutton 1½; (10) Coral Warner 1.

It is curious there should have been two Margaret Wood’s. The first was the previous holder of the championship (the daughter of B. H. Wood, of Sutton Coldfield), the other came from Bicester. It was quite an exciting contest. Mavis lost her last game by some very poor opening play, and the result depended on an adjourned game between Myrtle and the holder on the last morning, and the combination with which the former won the game was quite first class.

There were eighteen competitors in an Open Competition run on the Swiss System, seven rounds, and this was won by June Beckett, with a score of 6, though she lost her last game to Mary Kynaston, who was second with 5½; Ann Ricketts and M. Allwright shared the third prize with 5 each. Both the prize-winners had been coached by E. A. Coad Pryor. Miss M. Musgrave, Women’s Champion in 1938, gave away the prizes.

The 28th boys’ event [1953 British Boys' Under-18 Championship] attracted thirty-eight entries, and was run on the Swiss System, with nine rounds between Monday evening, April 13th, and Friday night, April 17th. The winner, K. F. H. Inwood, of Tiffin’s School, was the London Chess League’s nominee; he beat T. A. Landry, of William Ellis School, in the last round, by a good King’s-side attack, after the latter had overlooked the winning of a pawn earlier. Landry and G. Jessup, also of William Ellis School, shared the second and third prizes with 6½. M. F. Collins, Sandbach School, Crewe, P. Gough, King Edward VI School, Norwich, J. T. Farrand, Haberdasher’s Aske’s, Hampstead, and A. Hall, of the same school, with P. Starling, of Middlesbrough, all scored 6.

In the opinion of Sir George Thomas the general standard of play was higher than last year, but there was no boy outstanding. There were thirty entrants for an Open Competition, which was run in five sections of six each, with two prizes in each section. On Saturday morning a Lightning Tournament was held in three sections of nine. In Section A Sir George Thomas took part, in B Wade, and in C Golombek; the prizes, presented by Sir George, went to Tidmarsh, Farrand, and Springgay respectively. The last named, from Brighton, won the Rider Shield for the Sussex boy who made the highest score in the championship. The prizes were distributed by the Mayoress of Hastings, Mrs. Rymill.

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1953 British Boys' (Under-18) Chess Championship, 13-17 April, Hastings Chess Club

1953 British Boys Chess Championship		School/Residence	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Total
1	Kenneth F H Inwood	Tiffin's School, Kingston-upon-Thames	♦ 1/35	♦ 1/21	◊ 0/14	◊ 1/34	♦ 1/3	♦ 1/11	◊ 1/10	♦ ½/5	◊ 1/2	7½
2	Thomas Anselm Landry	William Ellis School, London	♦ 1/24	◊ ½/20	◊ ½/10	♦ ½/26	◊ 1/28	♦ 1/18	♦ 1/5	◊ 1/4	♦ 0/1	6½
3	Gilbert Jessup	William Ellis School, London	♦ ½/27	◊ 1/22	♦ ½/34	♦ 1/6	◊ 0/1	♦ 1/20	◊ 1/12	♦ 1/16	◊ ½/5	6½
4	Malcolm Frank Collins	Sandbach School, Crewe	◊ 1/6	♦ 1/9	◊ 0/5	♦ 1/19	◊ 1/7	♦ ½/12	◊ ½/16	♦ 0/2	◊ 1/10	6
5	Julian Thomas Farrand	Haberdasher’s Aske’s, Hampstead	♦ 1/13	◊ 1/19	♦ 1/4	♦ 1/14	◊ 1/12	♦ 0/10	◊ 0/2	◊ ½/1	♦ ½/3	6
6	Philip Gough	Ludlow Grammar School	♦ 0/4	1/bye	♦ 1/17	◊ 0/3	◊ 1/19	♦ ½/15	◊ 1/31	♦ 1/22	◊ ½/7	6
7	Arthur Hall	Haberdasher’s Aske’s, Hampstead	◊ 0/9	♦ 1/29	◊ 1/25	◊ 1/18	♦ 0/4	♦ 1/27	◊ 1/28	♦ ½/10	♦ ½/6	6
8	Peter Starling	Acklam Grammar Sch, Middlesbrough	◊ 0/31	♦ 0/17	◊ 1/32	♦ 1/35	◊ 0/16	♦ 1/25	◊ 1/14	◊ 1/27	♦ 1/12	6
9	Michael Davis	Bexhill Grammar School	♦ 1/7	◊ 0/4	♦ 0/11	♦ 0/27	♦ 1/31	♦ 1/17	◊ 1/13	♦ ½/15	◊ 1/21	5½
10	W[illiam?] S[tanley?] Powell	St Joseph's College, Stoke	♦ ½/22	◊ 1/13	♦ ½/2	◊ 1/31	♦ 1/14	◊ 1/5	♦ 0/1	◊ ½/7	♦ 0/4	5½
11	E J Alexander	Purley Grammar School	◊ ½/16	♦ ½/25	◊ 1/9	♦ ½/30	♦ 1/24	◊ 0/1	◊ 1/20	♦ 0/12	◊ ½/15	5
12	H A Lee	Surbiton County Grammar School	◊ 1/37	♦ ½/34	♦ 1/26	◊ 1/20	♦ 0/5	◊ ½/4	♦ 0/3	◊ 1/11	◊ 0/8	5
13	Anthony James Leggett	Beaumont College, Old Windsor	◊ 0/5	♦ 0/10	1/bye	◊ 1/17	♦ 0/18	◊ 1/23	♦ 0/9	◊ 1/37	♦ 1/27	5
14	David George Springgay	Moulsecoomb Sec. Mod., Brighton	◊ 1/30	♦ 1/28	♦ 1/1	◊ 0/5	◊ 0/10	♦ 0/16	♦ 0/8	◊ 1/31	◊ 1/24	5
15	David A Tidmarsh 1	Wilson's Grammar School, Camberwell	♦ 1/23	◊ 0/26	♦ 0/19	◊ 1/37	♦ 1/34	◊ ½/6	♦ ½/27	◊ ½/9	♦ ½/11	5
16	D[ouglas?] Williams	Westborough, Surrey	♦ ½/11	◊ ½/27	♦ ½/31	◊ ½/24	♦ 1/8	◊ 1/14	♦ ½/4	◊ 0/3	◊ ½/22	5
17	Vernon Henry Barnett	Worcester College for the Blind	♦ 0/19	◊ 1/8	◊ 0/6	♦ 0/13	◊ ½/32	◊ 0/9	1/bye	◊ 1/29	♦ 1/30	4½
18	Ronald A Fuller	Ipswich	◊ ½/25	♦ ½/31	◊ 1/21	♦ 0/7	◊ 1/13	◊ 0/2	♦ ½/24	♦ ½/20	◊ ½/19	4½
19	Simon Goldstein	East Ham Grammar School	◊ 1/17	♦ 0/5	◊ 1/15	◊ 0/4	♦ 0/6	♦ ½/31	◊ 1/34	♦ ½/21	♦ ½/18	4½
20	Denis John Pereira Gray	Exeter School	◊ 1/29	♦ ½/2	♦ 1/37	♦ 0/12	◊ 1/26	◊ 0/3	♦ 0/11	◊ ½/18	♦ ½/23	4½
21	J Laurence	St Albans	1/bye	◊ 0/1	♦ 0/18	♦ ½/25	◊ 1/36	◊ ½/26	♦ 1/30	◊ ½/19	♦ 0/9	4½
22	(David) Keith Peters	Port Talbot Grammar School	◊ ½/10	♦ 0/3	♦ 0/23	◊ ½/36	♦ 1/33	♦ 1/35	◊ 1/26	◊ 0/6	♦ ½/16	4½
23	Keith E Stanley	Ilford County High School	◊ 0/15	♦ ½/32	◊ 1/22	♦ 0/28	◊ ½/25	♦ 0/13	◊ 1/35	♦ 1/26	◊ ½/20	4½
24	W Turner	Steyning Grammar School	◊ 0/2	♦ 1/35	◊ ½/30	♦ ½/16	◊ 0/11	♦ 1/37	◊ ½/18	◊ 1/28	♦ 0/14	4½
25	Roger Francis Busby	Eastbourne College	♦ ½/18	◊ ½/11	♦ 0/7	◊ ½/21	♦ ½/23	♦ 0/8	♦ 1/33	◊ ½/30	♦ ½/28	4
26	J McLeod	Varndean School, Brighton	◊ 1/32	♦ 1/15	◊ 0/12	◊ ½/2	♦ 0/20	♦ ½/21	♦ 0/22	◊ 0/23	◊ 1/36	4
27	R E Miles	(Oxfordshire)	◊ ½/3	♦ ½/16	◊ ½/28	◊ 1/9	♦ 1/30	◊ 0/7	◊ ½/15	♦ 0/8	◊ 0/13	4
28	Michael Edward Ventham	King Edward VI School, Southampton	♦ 1/33	◊ 0/14	♦ ½/27	◊ 1/23	♦ 0/2	◊ 1/34	♦ 0/7	♦ 0/24	◊ ½/25	4
29	Roger W Barclay-Smith	Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh	♦ 0/20	◊ 0/7	♦ ½/36	♦ ½/32	◊ 0/35	1/bye	♦ ½/37	♦ 0/17	◊ 1/34	3½
30	Gabriel Eyamba Essien	Bolton County Grammar School	♦ 0/14	◊ 1/33	♦ ½/24	◊ ½/11	◊ 0/27	♦ 1/32	◊ 0/21	♦ ½/25	◊ 0/17	3½
31	Brian F Burrows	Bridgend, Wales	♦ 1/8	◊ ½/18	◊ ½/16	♦ 0/10	◊ 0/9	◊ ½/19	♦ 0/6	♦ 0/14	◊ ½/32	3
32	Peter W Haddock	Ilford County High School	♦ 0/26	◊ ½/23	♦ 0/8	◊ ½/29	♦ ½/17	◊ 0/30	◊ 0/36	1/bye	♦ ½/31	3
33	J B/N Hyde	Tower Road School, St Leonards	◊ 0/28	♦ 0/30	◊ 0/35	1/bye	◊ 0/22	♦ 1/36	◊ 0/25	♦ 0/34	♦ 1/37	3
34	A J Linfield	Kent College, Canterbury	♦ 1/36	◊ ½/12	◊ ½/3	♦ 0/1	◊ 0/15	♦ 0/28	♦ 0/19	◊ 1/33	♦ 0/29	3
35	D J Lloyd	Ludlow Grammar School	◊ 0/1	◊ 0/24	♦ 1/33	◊ 0/8	♦ 1/29	◊ 0/22	♦ 0/23	♦ 0/36	1/bye	3
36	R D Wickham	Taunton School	◊ 0/34	♦ 0/37	◊ ½/29	♦ ½/22	♦ 0/21	◊ 0/33	♦ 1/32	◊ 1/35	♦ 0/26	3
37	Brian Robert Perham	Worcester College for the Blind	♦ 0/12	◊ 1/36	◊ 0/20	♦ 0/15	1/bye	◊ 0/24	◊ ½/29	♦ 0/13	◊ 0/33	2½
38	C A Gray - defaulted	Beaumont College, Old Windsor	defaulted									0

Principal sources: 1953/54 BCF Yearbook; various issues of The Times
¹ The Times gives "H. D. Tidmarsh" but there is no known person of this name in the UK and there is a known player called David A Tidmarsh, b 1936.

n.b. several of these players took part in the 1953 Glorney Cup which has been excellently documented by Sean Coffey at IRLchess.com

From the Illustrated London News, Saturday 25 April 1953, page 15

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[Manchester Guardian, 18 April 1953, p7] "BOY CHESS CHAMPION - K. F. H. Inwood, a seventeen-year-old schoolboy, of Molesey Road, Hersham, Surrey, became the boy chess champion of Britain at Hastings last night. His final score in the British boys’ chess championship at the twenty-eighth annual British Boys’ Chess Congress was seven and a half points. Inwood, who holds the London boys’ championship, goes to Tiffin’s School, Kingston-on-Thames."

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[The Times, various editions, April 1953] 1953 British Girls' Under-18 Chess Championship Results: 1 Myrtle Barnes (aged 16, Bromley County Technical School) 7½/9; 2 Mavis Stanbridge (aged 15, of King’s Warren Grammar School, Plumstead) 7; 3-4 Peggy Wood (aged 15, King Edward's High School, Birmingham) and Heather Carpenter (aged 15, King’s Warren Grammar School) 6; 5 Margaret Wood (aged 14, Bicester Grammar School) 5; 6 Heather Angell (aged 15, a Middlesex shorthand typist) 4½; 7 Caroline Matthews (aged 15, Bromley High School) 4; 8 Janice Millross (aged 15, King’s Warren Grammar School) 2½; 9 Janice Hutton (aged 15, King’s Warren Grammar School) 1½; 10 Coral Warner (Sidcup and Chislehurst Technical School), 1.

1953 British Girls Championship		Age, School	Draw No.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total
1	Myrtle Barnes	16, Bromley County Technical School	6	&;	1	1	1	1	½	0	1	1	1	7½
2	Mavis Stanbridge	15, King’s Warren Grammar School, Plumstead	3	0	&;	1	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	7
3	Peggy Wood	15, King Edward's High School, Birmingham	1	0	0	&;	1	½	½	1	1	1	1	6
4	Heather Carpenter	15, King’s Warren Grammar School	2	0	1	0	&;	½	½	1	1	1	1	6
5	Margaret Wood	14, Bicester Grammar School	9	0	0	½	½	&;	1	1	½	½	1	5
6	Heather Angell	15, Middlesex, shorthand typist	10	½	0	½	½	0	&;	1	1	0	1	4½
7	Caroline Matthews	15, Bromley High School	8	1	0	0	0	0	0	&;	1	1	1	4
8	Janice Millross	15, King’s Warren Grammar School	5	0	0	0	0	½	0	0	&;	1	1	2½
9	Janice Hutton	15, King’s Warren Grammar School	4	0	0	0	0	½	1	0	0	&;	0	1½
10	Coral Warner	Sidcup and Chislehurst Technical School	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	&;	1

From the Illustrated London News, Saturday 18 April 1953, page 18

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From the Hastings and St Leonards Observer - Saturday 08 August 1953...

Chess 'World Citizen'
In support of his claim to be "a citizen of the world," Dr. J. A. Seitz, who is competing in the Major Open event of the British Chess Federation Coronation Chess Congress at the Town Hall next week, can quote some very interesting facts. He was born in Bavaria, lives in Norway, represents the Italian Chess Federation and is a life member of the British Chess Federation. Before the last war he lived in Argentina. A polyglot, he can speak in praise of chess in almost any language. Despite his international outlook, Dr. Seitz admits a liking for this country. "I was the first German to play in England after the First World War," is his proud claim. This he did at the London 1922 Congress. Asked which of all places in England he likes best he replied: "Hastings takes a lot of beating,*' which is high praise indeed from "a citizen of the world."

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File Updated

Date	Notes
(Circa 1998)	Most of these games have been available here for nearly 20 years but I've now added dates, full names of players (where available), and included crosstables and results.
23 April 2016	One extra game from the Major Open, supplied by Brian Denman (many thanks), and also a Bernard Cafferty game from the Major Open which has already appeared on BritBase in the Bernard Cafferty game collection and which needs to be located in this file too.
1 May 2018	Added the game Eva-Thomson (Rd 7, Major Open), found in the Glasgow Herald.
3 May 2018	Added the game W.Yeeles-D.Pearce, from the Major Open - thanks to Gerard Killoran.
13 March 2019	Added details of the British Under-21 Championship which was held in Birmingham during Easter, and the Boys and Girls Under-18, held in Hastings after Easter.
28 May 2019	Added 8 further games, from the Under-21, Boys' Under-18 and Girls' Under-18 tournaments, which were played separately and earlier than the main congress. I have also provided further text relating to the two Under-18 events from the Times and Manchester Guardian. Games total now = 193
8 January 2021	Correction applied to Rhodes-Goodman, Rd 3. Thanks to Geoff Chandler for drawing my attention to this.
27 April 2022	Part-game from the Minor Open added: Lacy-Hulbert 1-0 A Watson. Contributed by Gerard Killoran via the English Chess Forum, for which many thanks.
18 June 2022	Four more games added: (1) M.Barker ½-½ D.Griffiths (Under 21); (2) J.Phipps 0-1 D.Griffiths (Under 21); (3) K.Gardner 1-0 K.Lloyd (Major Open); (4) D.Griffiths 1-0 K.Lloyd (Major Open). Thanks to Gerard Killoran who posted them on the English Chess Forum. I've also taken the opportunity to prepare a complete crosstable of the British Boys' (Under 18) Championship, played at Hastings in April 1953.
12 July 2024	Added the game J.Walsh 1-0 Rev. H.Blackett, Second Class A. Many thanks to Brian Denman for supplying the score.