1966 British Chess Championship, Sunderland, 8-19 August • 1965« »1967

1966 British Chess Championship		Residence	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Total
1	Dr. Jonathan Penrose	London	♦ 1/24	◊ 1/22	◊ ½/3	♦ 1/13	♦ 1/2	◊ 1/7	♦ ½/4	◊ 1/16	♦ ½/12	◊ 1/8	♦ 0/6	8½
2	Norman Littlewood	Sheffield	◊ 1/5	◊ 1/7	♦ 1/6	♦ ½/3	◊ 0/1	♦ ½/8	◊ 1/19	◊ 0/4	♦ 1/15	♦ 1/14	◊ 1/12	8
3	Peter Hugh Clarke	Peterborough	♦ 1/18	◊ 1/27	♦ ½/1	◊ ½/2	♦ ½/12	◊ ½/4	◊ 1/8	♦ 1/14	◊ ½/7	♦ ½/5	♦ 1/13	8
4	Michael John Haygarth	Leeds	♦ ½/21	◊ ½/20	♦ 1/26	◊ ½/12	◊ 1/13	♦ ½/3	◊ ½/1	♦ 1/2	◊ ½/5	♦ 1/7	◊ ½/8	7½
5	Victor W Knox	Leasowe	♦ 0/2	◊ 1/24	♦ ½/25	◊ ½/23	♦ ½/22	◊ 1/21	♦ ½/13	◊ ½/12	♦ ½/4	◊ ½/3	◊ 1/14	6½
6	Philip Norman Wallis	Sheepy Parva	◊ 1/29	♦ ½/13	◊ 0/2	♦ ½/17	♦ 0/19	◊ ½/20	♦ ½/22	◊ 1/18	♦ 1/23	◊ ½/15	◊ 1/1	6½
7	(Philip) Stuart Milner-Barry	London	◊ 1/28	♦ 0/2	◊ 1/14	♦ 1/11	◊ ½/8	♦ 0/1	♦ ½/23	◊ 1/13	♦ ½/3	◊ 0/4	◊ ½/9	6
8	Bernard Cafferty	Smethwick	♦ ½/23	◊ ½/25	♦ 1/27	◊ 1/19	♦ ½/7	◊ ½/2	♦ 0/3	◊ ½/15	◊ 1/9	♦ 0/1	♦ ½/4	6
9	John Eric Littlewood	Skegness	♦ 0/22	◊ 1/29	♦ 0/10	◊ 1/21	♦ ½/14	◊ 1/12	♦ 0/16	◊ 1/20	♦ 0/8	◊ 1/17	♦ ½/7	6
10	Frank Parr	Ewell	◊ 0/13	♦ ½/28	◊ 1/9	◊ ½/25	♦ 1/26	♦ ½/19	◊ 0/14	♦ ½/11	◊ ½/17	◊ 1/22	♦ ½/15	6
11	David Lees	Bury	♦ ½/25	◊ 1/21	♦ ½/12	◊ 0/7	♦ ½/23	◊ 0/16	♦ 1/26	◊ ½/10	♦ 0/22	◊ 1/19	◊ 1/20	6
12	Owen Mark Hindle	Norwich	◊ ½/15	♦ 1/30	◊ ½/11	♦ ½/4	◊ ½/3	♦ 0/9	◊ 1/17	♦ ½/5	◊ ½/1	◊ ½/13	♦ 0/2	5½
13	Alan Peter Borwell	Edinburgh	♦ 1/10	◊ ½/6	♦ 1/23	◊ 0/1	♦ 0/4	◊ 1/22	◊ ½/5	♦ 0/7	◊ 1/19	♦ ½/12	◊ 0/3	5½
14	Wladyslaw Tabakiernik	Leicester	♦ 0/27	◊ 1/18	♦ 0/7	♦ 1/24	◊ ½/9	◊ 1/25	♦ 1/10	◊ 0/3	♦ 1/16	◊ 0/2	♦ 0/5	5½
15	Peter Charles Griffiths	Solihull	♦ ½/12	◊ 0/23	♦ ½/18	◊ ½/16	◊ 1/20	♦ ½/17	◊ 1/29	♦ ½/8	◊ 0/2	♦ ½/6	◊ ½/10	5½
16	Gerald Bonner	Glasgow	◊ ½/17	♦ 0/19	◊ ½/28	♦ ½/15	◊ 1/30	♦ 1/11	◊ 1/9	♦ 0/1	◊ 0/14	♦ ½/20	◊ ½/18	5½
17	(William) Arthur Winser	St Leonards	♦ ½/16	◊ ½/26	♦ ½/22	◊ ½/6	♦ ½/25	◊ ½/15	♦ 0/12	◊ 1/29	♦ ½/10	♦ 0/9	◊ 1/24	5½
18	Anthony James Booth	Manchester	◊ 0/3	♦ 0/14	◊ ½/15	♦ 0/29	◊ ½/24	♦ 1/28	◊ 1/30	♦ 0/6	♦ 1/27	◊ 1/23	♦ ½/16	5½
19	Barry N Green	Altrincham	♦ ½/26	◊ 1/16	♦ ½/20	♦ 0/8	◊ 1/6	◊ ½/10	♦ 0/2	◊ ½/23	♦ 0/13	♦ 0/11	◊ 1/30	5
20	Jeffrey Ansell	Cheltenham	◊ ½/30	♦ ½/4	◊ ½/19	◊ ½/22	♦ 0/15	♦ ½/6	◊ 1/25	♦ 0/9	◊ 1/24	◊ ½/16	♦ 0/11	5
21	Peter Coast	Cheltenham	◊ ½/4	♦ 0/11	◊ ½/30	♦ 0/9	◊ 1/28	♦ 0/5	◊ 0/24	◊ ½/27	♦ 1/26	♦ ½/29	◊ 1/22	5
22	John R Cooke	London	◊ 1/9	♦ 0/1	◊ ½/17	♦ ½/20	◊ ½/5	♦ 0/13	◊ ½/6	♦ ½/24	◊ 1/11	♦ 0/10	♦ 0/21	4½
23	Dr. James Macrae Aitken	Cheltenham	◊ ½/8	♦ 1/15	◊ 0/13	♦ ½/5	◊ ½/11	♦ ½/29	◊ ½/7	♦ ½/19	◊ 0/6	♦ 0/18	♦ ½/28	4½
24	Peter W Hempson	London	◊ 0/1	♦ 0/5	♦ ½/29	◊ 0/14	♦ ½/18	◊ 1/27	♦ 1/21	◊ ½/22	♦ 0/20	◊ 1/30	♦ 0/17	4½
25	Mike J Conroy	Burnley	◊ ½/11	♦ ½/8	◊ ½/5	♦ ½/10	◊ ½/17	♦ 0/14	♦ 0/20	◊ ½/26	♦ 0/30	◊ ½/28	◊ ½/27	4
26	Dr. Stefan Fazekas	Buckhurst Hill	◊ ½/19	♦ ½/17	◊ 0/4	♦ 1/28	◊ 0/10	♦ ½/30	◊ 0/11	♦ ½/25	◊ 0/21	♦ 0/27	◊ 1/29	4
27	Mark Howard Horton	Nottingham	◊ 1/14	♦ 0/3	◊ 0/8	♦ ½/30	◊ 0/29	♦ 0/24	◊ ½/28	♦ ½/21	◊ 0/18	◊ 1/26	♦ ½/25	4
28	David J Sully	Cardiff	♦ 0/7	◊ ½/10	♦ ½/16	◊ 0/26	♦ 0/21	◊ 0/18	♦ ½/27	◊ ½/30	♦ 1/29	♦ ½/25	◊ ½/23	4
29	Ernest A Little	Sunderland	♦ 0/6	♦ 0/9	◊ ½/24	◊ 1/18	♦ 1/27	◊ ½/23	♦ 0/15	♦ 0/17	◊ 0/28	◊ ½/21	♦ 0/26	3½
30	(Paul) John Patience	Southampton	♦ ½/20	◊ 0/12	♦ ½/21	◊ ½/27	♦ 0/16	◊ ½/26	♦ 0/18	♦ ½/28	◊ 1/25	♦ 0/24	♦ 0/19	3½

1966 British Ladies’ Championship, Sunderland, 8-19 August • 1965« »1967

1966 British Ladies' Chess Championship		Residence	Draw No.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Total
1	Margaret Eileen Elizabeth Clarke	Peterborough	1	&;	½	1	½	1	1	1	0	1	1	½	1	8½
2	Gillian A Moore	Southampton	11	½	&;	0	½	½	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	8½
3	Nancy Conchar Elder	Dundee	8	0	1	&;	1	1	1	½	0	1	0	1	1	7½
4	Rowena Mary Bruce	Plymouth	5	½	½	0	&;	½	1	½	1	1	0	1	1	7
5	Dinah Margaret Dobson (now Norman)	Northwood	2	0	½	0	½	&;	0	½	1	1	1	1	1	6½
6	Mary A E A Henniker-Heaton	London	9	0	0	0	0	1	&;	½	1	½	1	1	1	6
7	Cicely Mary Murphy	Whitchurch, Salop	6	0	0	½	½	½	½	&;	1	½	½	1	1	6
8	Margaret E Lander	Gillingham, Dorset	10	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	&;	½	1	1	½	5
9	Mrs E [Anneliese?] Ingram	Whitchurch, Salop	4	0	0	0	0	0	½	½	½	&;	1	1	1	4½
10	Leah Margaret Hogarth	Glasgow	12	0	0	1	1	0	0	½	0	0	&;	½	1	4
11	Sarah Margaret Steedman	Bothwell	3	½	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	½	&;	½	1½
12	Miss A Enstone	Cheltenham	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	½	0	0	½	&;	1

Pairings for the above tournament were in accordance with Table 2 on this page.

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1966 Major Open

1 Bartolome Jorge Marcussi (Argentina) 8½/11; 2 Ronald Thomas 8; 3-4 Paul R Bielby and P. M. Collins 7; 5-7 Harry Lamb, Roger L Paige, Derek Maurice Wise 6½; 8-9 J. H. Gardener and R. G. Thimann 6; 10-17 W. Bainbridge, Percy B Cook, (Derek) George Ellison, Gordon R Evans, J. H. Jones, Philip J Meade, P. G. Moore, Kenneth P Neat 5½; 18-20 J. B. Goodman, V. J. R. Soanes, P. Griffiths 5; 21-22 J. M. Gorton and M. R. Whall 3½; 23 Charles Reuben Gurnhill 3; 24 Daniel L O'Byrne 2.

1966 British Junior (U-21) Championship

1-2 Brian J Denman (Hove), Alan T Ludgate (High Wycombe) 8/11; 3 Alan H Perkins 7½; 4-9 Brian R Eley, P. A. Harris, Bernard Kooiman, J. Ripp, Leslie S Tate, Louis de Veauce 7; 10-14 R. de L. Holmes, Gareth Aneurin Jones, Timothy W Pelling, J. Simpson, J. Steedman 6½; 15-17 R. G. Lee, Chris J McSheehy, Nicholas Charles Pyper 6; 18-28 Tom Bimpson, Malcolm Edwin Burn, Raymond J Gamble, John Hall, Paul S N Kendall, D. K. Lawton, William A Linton, I. McDonald, D. C. Rowe, J. P. Spender, W. P. Watson 5½; 29-37 Nigel B Ramsey 5; J. R. Dicken, J. L. Harris, Martin H Hawley, Norman A Hutchinson, R. A. John, D. Lyon, A. E. Scheps, P. A. Thomas 4½; 38-40 D. Blake, Oliver A Jackson, S. Welbourne 4; 41 D. Eccles 3½; 42-44 A. Elisdon, G. L. Porter, M. J. Walton 3.

1966 British Boys’ Under 18 Championship

1-2 Terry Baldwin, Simon Webb 9/11; 3 D. Adams 8; M. J. Bulford and Julian Kirk O’Grady 7½; M. A. Smith 7; B. Charnley, J. G. Enticknap, R. G. Gray, Martin R Myant, B. Turner, and R. D. Waugh 6½; John J Carleton, A. B. Fisher, P. McDermott, M. I. Meakin, H. Russell, J. A. Sanz, P. M. Stevenson, T. Wickens, and D. P. Willmets 6; M. Banks, Leslie S Blackstock, C. D. Carr, H. F. Fenwick, D. B. Hughes, H. T. Jones, A. J. Potter, B. J. Ranson, R. H. Watson, and Mel Young 5½; J. Baguley, D. K. Bryan, R. Clark, R. J. Holland, B. Hopley, S. G. Mason, Trefor F Thynne, and D. A. Wilson 5; R. F. Buckler, R. A. Culpin, G. J. Davies, B. Milnes, J. E. Samuelson, and E. I. Stevenson 4½; R. Hardy and M. O’Neill 2; P. Kelbie and J. Mackay 2.

1966 British Boys’ Under 16 Championship

1-2 Richard G Eales, A Howard Williams 9/11; 3 Timothy G Congdon 8; 4 Martyn J Corden 7½; 5 G. J. Brindle 7; 6-12 G. Hackett, Ronald L Johannes, P. Karmaz, Rory M R O’Kelly, Alan G Trangmar, A. F. Warren, Peter R Markland 6½; M. Dann, P. A. Hutchinson, R. W. Howley, R. C. Leese, R. J. Miles 6; R. J. P. Bloor, J. Cooksey, A. Donkin, L.A. Edwards, M. Fleury, P. Hershman, J. A. Hodgson, F. Moon, J. D. Richard, K. Stendall, B. Stuart, G. E. P. Swatridge, K. Wilson, and R. Wymer 5½; G. L. Foster, J. W. Savage, D. W. Simpson, A. Yates 5; P. W. Blundell, R. Cronch, P. Dixon, I. Harbey, and D. R. Lewis 4½; R. Brooks, S. Haseldine, G. M. Hughes 4; E. A. Elliott 3; A. Taylor 2½.

1966 British Boys’ Under 14 Championship

1-2 Robert Bellin, Robert Woodford 8½/11; 3 Richard G Record 8; 4 J. Wood 7½; 5-8 Howard J Price, Maurice J Staples, Jonathan P Stoye, I. D. Turner 7; 9-12 Phillip D Alder, Richard Bailey, A. Charlton, J. Watson 6½; 13-17 D. J. Bloor, S. Cronick, P. McKeown, J. M. Scott, and M. D. Smith 6; 18-21 M. Harkness, C. J. A. Jones, D. J. Milroy, M. Wilson 5½; 22-29 W. J. Collins, Michael Farthing, G. Henshaw, R. Perry, J. H. Reavey, C. Thompson, David C Wilson, G. Yates 5; 30 S. J. Craven 4½; 31-33 A. Gardner, B. Gatenby, Chris D F Miller 4; 34-35 W. Jackson and C. Smalley 3½; 36 J. B. Smith 1.

1966 British Girls’ Under 18 Championship (five-rounds Swiss System)

1-3 Julie Dobson (Wallasey), Rosemary McWaters (Glasgow), Marjorie Moore (Glasgow) 4/5; 4-5 R. Donnelly and K. Patterson 3; 6-7 C. Nuldoon and B. Toft 2; 8 M. Manderson 1½; 9 J. Baldwin 1; 10 G. Page ½.

Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 23 August 1966

First Class

1 John N Walker 9½/11; D. G. Streets 9; M. L. Baumber, G. A. M. Boswell, N. J. Davies, G. Parsonage, and R. Woodcock 6½; F. Eastwood, I. Eustis, and T. V. Parrott 6½; Rev. H. M. Blackett and H. J. Draisey 5; A. Archer, A. Farr, T. Fawell, A. Milner, and P. L. Vasil 4½; T. Holmes and A. D. T. Stewart 3½; A. Sedgwick 3.

Second Class

1 K. Attenborough 8/11; J. Douthwaite, A. R. Gardner, and R. Ridley 7; De le Jones and W. G. Oliver 5½; C. M. Oliver 4½; Rev. A. Schofield and A. Terrett 3½; P. Saw 2½; A. G. Togwell 1.

Special Five-day, First Week

1 A. Goldsmith 5½/6; S. Gladstone 4½; Mrs. V. Clement 2; and Miss M. Martin 0.

Special Five-day, Second Week

1 Philip C Hoad 5/5; W. D. Johnson and P. C. Wood 3½; D. Benjamin, R. J. Braunton, W. A. Dixon, A. C. M. Everingham 3; S. C. Hamilton, J. Lumsden 2½; W. E. Mason, J. G. Neil, J. K. Rodda 2; R. B. B. Bullock and F. G. Wright 1½; M. R. Allen and J. B. W. Robertson 1.

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[Manchester Guardian, 20 August 1966] Women are joint chess champions — Mrs Margaret Clarke, a Peterborough schoolteacher, and Miss Gillian Moore, a Southampton civil servant, were the joint winners of the British ladies' chess championship at the British Chess Federation’s annual congress at Sunderland yesterday. They scored 8½ points each out of a possible 11. In the final round, Mrs Clarke won her game but Miss Moore was held to a draw. The British under-21 championship was jointly won by Brian Denham (Hove) and Alan Ludgate (High Wycombe) with a score of 8 points out of a possible 11.

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File Updated

Date	Notes
November 2017	First uploaded
15 April 2018	Minor spelling corrections to names.
17 November 2021	Added the game R.Bruce 0-1 L.Hogarth, rd 8, British Ladies' Championship. Also, created a full crosstable for the Ladies' Championship and added dates and round numbers for the games.
3 December 2022	Added six Major Open games, all played by Roger Paige: (1) ½-½ v P.Cook (rd 1); (2) 1-0 v V.Soanes (rd 5); (3) ½-½ v B.Marcussi (rd 7); (4) ½-½ v P.Bielby (rd 8); (5) 1-0 v K.Neat (rd ?); (6) 1-0 v R.Thomas (rd ?). Many thanks to Roger Paige for sending the games.
18 December 2022	Added a game: R.Eales 1-0 M.Corden (U16). Thanks to Gerard Killoran for submitting via the English Chess Forum.
8 October 2024	Added two games from the Women's Championship: (1) G Moore ½-½ M E E Clarke (rd 10); (2) D Dobson [Norman] ½-½ G Moore (rd 11 - see below for colour correction). Games from Roger Paige's book Hampshire Chess Games 1950-1970, sent by Graham Stuart. Many thanks to both Roger and Graham.
14 October 2024	Correction applied: Dinah Dobson was White against Gillian Moore in this game from the Women's Championship (originally posted showing she was Black). My thanks to Ken Norman for the information.