5th Lloyds Bank Masters, 25 August - 2 September 1981 (9-Round Swiss), Mount Royal Hotel, Bryanston St, W1

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(Table from 1981/82 BCF Yearbook, p69 – some typos identified – there may be other errors)

1981 Lloyds Bank Masters		Nat'y	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Total
1	Raymond D Keene	ENG	2475g	=21	+93	+59	+41	+10	=12	=4	+22	=3	7
2	Anthony J Miles	ENG	2565g	+39	=18	=22	+103	+85	+46	=12	+6	=7	7
3	Yasser Seirawan	USA	2565g	+58	+72	–10	+67	+31	+56	+22	=4	=1	7
4	Florin Gheorghiu	ROM	2560g	+81	+56	+25	=12	+18	=6	=1	=3	=5	6½
5	Yair Kraidman	ISR	2440g	+95	–43	=57	+76	+81	+9	=7	+12	=4	6½
6	Jacob Murey	ISR	2450m	+36	–15	+110	+34	+29	=4	+10	–2	+23	6½
7	Mark L Hebden	ENG	2315	+30	+31	+15	=10	–12	+79	=5	+19	=2	6½
8	Vasily V Smyslov	USSR	2580g	=27	+71	=43	+90	=23	=33	+37	=20	=18	6
9	Murray G Chandler	NZL	2530m	=35	+53	=29	+36	=20	–5	=56	+72	+37	6
10	Jon L Arnason	ISL	2440m	+87	+34	+3	=7	–1	+57	–6	+52	=20	6
11	Anthony F Saidy	USA	2430m	+48	=69	=38	=25	=26	+49	+72	=17	=13	6
12	Paul Van der Sterren	NLD	2420m	+20	+17	+24	=4	+7	=1	–2	–5	+36	6
13	Glenn C Flear	ENG	2385f	=49	=23	+39	–33	+95	=26	+25	+32	=11	6
14	Ed W Formanek	USA	2370m	=41	+50	=49	–65	+63	+90	=18	=44	+43	6
15	Vincent McCambridge	USA	2350	+88	+6	–7	+37	+65	–22	=20	+41	=17	6
16	Mark Ginsburg	USA	2325f	–56	–63	+99	=74	+108	+83	=43	+57	+38	6
17	Gerd Treppner	FRG	2255	+63	–12	=95	=75	+24	+73	+33	=11	=15	6
18	Dibyendu Barua	IND	2350	+42	=2	+62	+43	–4	=41	=14	+30	=8	6
19	Philipp Gerbert	FRG	(2445)	–69	–44	+106	+45	+75	+40	+35	–7	+52	6
20	John J Cox	ENG	2275	–12	+84	+45	+24	=9	+23	=15	=8	=10	6
21	Fernand Gobet	SUI	(2210)	=1	–68	=40	=28	+70	+91	=39	+49	+44	6
22	Gert Ligterink	NLD	2450m	=73	+52	+2	=35	+38	+15	–3	–1	=26	5½
23	José Luís Fernandez García	ESP	2420m	=65	=13	+105	+80	=8	–20	+69	+56	–6	5½
24	David J Strauss	USA	2410f	+67	+33	–12	–20	–17	+85	=31	+75	+56	5½
25	Fredrik Van der Vliet	NLD	2380	+74	+60	–4	=11	=46	+47	–13	+48	+50	5½
26	Roger I Nokes	NZL	2310	+79	=29	=83	=60	=11	=13	+46	=38	=22	5½
27	Andrew P Lewis	ENG	2200	=8	=105	–53	=94	+87	=59	+47	=62	+55	5½
28	Neil W Bradbury	ENG	(2175)	+51	–49	–34	=21	+94	+93	–44	+67	+62	5½
29	Leonid Shamkovich	USA	2500g	+108	=26	=9	+71	–6	–37	=57	=35	+73	5
30	Margeir Petursson	ISD	2460m	–7	=61	+42	–73	+68	=44	+65	–18	+54	5
31	Gert Iskov	DEN	2420m	+37	–7	+63	+66	–3	–35	=24	=39	+72	5
32	Jonathan Tisdall	USA	2415m	=54	=47	–79	+105	+53	+43	=41	–13	=39	5
33	Vaidyanathan Ravikumar	IND	2325m	+68	–24	+47	+13	=79	=8	–17	–36	+51	5
34	Orest Popovych	USA	2325f	+57	–10	+28	–6	–90	–61	+98	+74	+76	5
35	Antony C Kosten	ENG	2315	=9	+99	+54	=22	–56	+31	–19	=29	=41	5
36	John J Carleton	ENG	2305	–6	+70	+112	–9	–49	+63	+73	+33	–12	5
37	Michael A Pagden	ENG	2290	–31	+94	+92	–15	+67	+29	–8	+64	–9	5
38	Ralf Marian [Ralf Runau]	FRG	2250	=47	+85	=11	+83	–22	=54	+50	=26	–16	5
39	Guy West	AUS	(2265)	–2	+106	–13	+86	=47	+76	=21	=31	=32	5
40	Andrew J Muir	SCO	(2135)	–111	=91	=21	+58	+51	–19	+86	–43	+64	5
41	Helmut Cardon	NLD	2265	=14	+96	+73	–1	+69	=18	=32	–15	=35	5
42	Peter K Wells	ENG	2260	–18	=101	–30	=108	=105	+103	+63	=53	+75	5
43	Stuart Conquest	ENG	2210f	+64	+5	=8	–18	+59	–32	=16	+40	–14	5
44	James C Howell	ENG	(2150)	–94	+19	+61	–79	+92	=30	+28	=14	–21	5
45	F(arukh?) Khan1	ENG	(2030)	+76	–48	–20	–19	=58	+94	=51	+97	+69	5
46	George S Botterill	WLS	2415m	=66	–80	+88	+52	+25	–2	–26	–50	+81	4½
47	Nigel E Povah	ENG	2375f	=38	=32	–33	+64	=39	–25	–27	+90	+82	4½
48	Klaus Berg	DEN	2295	–11	+45	=101	=53	–54	=78	+80	–25	+84	4½
49	Daniel Pergericht	BEL	2260	=13	+28	=14	–56	+36	–11	+59	–21	=58	4½
50	Leontxo García	ESP	2230	=53	–14	–76	+98	+101	+80	–38	+46	–25	4½
51	Colin A Harpur	IRL		–28	+107	+87	–72	–40	+97	=45	+78	–33	4½
52	Maxim Dlugy	USA	2350	=55	–22	+108	–46	+103	+60	+54	–10	–19	4½
53	Wiliiam N Watson	ENG	2340	=50	–9	+27	=48	–32	=81	+61	=42	=57	4½
54	Jonathan Levitt	ENG	2270	=32	+111	–35	=95	+48	=38	–52	+60	–30	4½
55	Byron A Jacobs	ENG	2245	=52	–83	+70	–57	+88	–69	+85	+81	–27	4½
56	Keith C Arkell	ENG	2235	+16	–4	+75	+49	+35	–3	=9	–23	–24	4½
57	John C Hawksworth	ENG	2220	–34	+82	=5	+55	+60	–10	=29	–16	=53	4½
58	John R Richardson	ENG	(2240)	–3	–95	+102	–40	=45	+84	=66	+71	=49	4½
59	Sheila Jackson	ENG	2165wm	+78	=66	–1	+62	–43	=27	–49	=76	+80	4½
60	Gisela Fischdick	FRG	2220wm	+61	–25	+97	=26	–57	–52	+71	–54	+85	4½
61	Jana Miles (later Bellin)	ENG	2215wm	–60	=30	–44	+97	=78	+24	–53	=69	+83	4½
62	Elisabeta Polihroniade	ROM	2200wm	=75	+103	–18	–59	=74	+66	+90	=27	–28	4½
63	David E Rumens	ENG	2355f	–17	+16	–31	+101	–14	–36	42	+103	+99	4
64	Peter Hertzog	FRG	2325	–43	–79	+98	–47	+96	+67	+83	–37	–40	4
65	Richard L Britton	ENG	2295f	=23	=90	+94	+14	–15	–72	–30	–73	+98	4
66	Christian Schubert	FRG	2270	=46	=59	+96	–31	–83	–62	=58	+81	=74	4
67	Jonathan Kinlay	ENG	2265	–24	+89	+109	–3	–37	–64	+99	–28	+90	4
68	Simon J B Knott	ENG	2265	–33	+21	–85	=78	–30	+105	–74	=98	+95	4
69	(Sinclair) Thomas Banks	ENG	2210	+19	=11	=72	=85	–41	+55	–22	–61	=45	4
70	Stephen J Shutler	ENG	(2185)	=77	–36	–55	+84	–21	–86	=105	+107	+93	4
71	Simon W Small	ENG	(2115)	+107	–8	+86	–29	=80	=74	–60	–58	+91	4
72	Daniel J King	ENG	2320	+110	–3	=69	+51	=73	+65	–11	–9	–31	4
73	David H Cummings	ENG	2310	=22	+109	–41	+30	=72	–17	–36	+65	–29	4
74	Neil F Dickenson	ENG	2260	–25	=78	=81	=16	=62	=71	+68	–34	=66	4
75	Andrew P H Kinsman	ENG	(2110)	=62	+102	–56	=17	–19	+100	+95	–24	–42	4
76	Thomas L Milligan	SCO	(2120)	–45	+100	+50	–5	=91	–39	+93	=59	–34	4
77	Asad Rizvi	PAK	(2000)	=70	–110	+84	–81	–93	–89	+106	=88	+100	4
78	Alexandra Van der Mije	NLD	2215wg	–59	=74	=103	=68	=61	=48	=81	–51	+97	4
79	Gert Jan de Boer	NLD	2265	–26	+64	+25	+44	=33	–7	Withdrew			3½
80	Andrew D Martin	ENG	2345	=105	+46	=90	–23	=71	–50	–48	+95	–59	3½
81	Rainer Schlenker	FRG	(2225)	–4	+86	=74	+77	–5	=53	=78	–55	–46	3½
82	William J Jordan	AUS	(2205)	–90	–57	–100	+89	–97	+96	=92	+86	–47	3½
83	Yves Duhayon	BEL	(2000)	=101	+55	=26	–38	+66	–16	–64	=93	–61	3½
84	Daniel Mayers	USA	(2165)	=92	–20	–77	–70	+106	–58	+94	+89	–48	3½
85	Philip Walden	ENG	(2080)	+89	–38	+68	=69	–2	–24	–55	+92	–60	3½
86	(Patricia) Anne Sunnucks	ENG	2025wm	+100	–81	–71	–39	=99	+70	–40	–82	+101	3½
87	Michael W Marlow	ENG	2300	–10	=97	–51	=99	–27	=101	=103	=96	=92	3
88	Anthony J Stebbings	ENG	2245	–15	=92	–46	+96	–55	–98	=101	=77	=103	3
89	Leszek Filipowicz	POL	(2200)	–85	–67	–107	–82	+104	+77	=100	–84	=96	3
90	Michael J Freeman	SCO	(2090)	+82	=65	=80	–8	+34	–14	–62	–47	–67	3
91	Victor Berger2	ENG	(2080)	–109	=40	=93	+107	=76	–21	–97	=100	–71	3
92	Anthony C P Milnes	ENG	(2080)	=84	=88	–37	+100	–44	–95	=82	–85	=87	3
93	Richard W O'Brien	ENG	(2070)	=97	–1	=91	=109	+77	–28	–76	=83	–70	3
94	Willy Iclicki	BEL	(2025)	+44	–37	–65	=27	–28	–45	–84	=102	+106	3
95	Obafunmilayo Agusto	NGR	(2195)	–5	+58	=17	=54	–13	+92	–75	–80	–68	3
96	Andrew C L Dyson	ENG	(2160)	+102	–41	–66	–88	–64	–82	+104	=87	=89	3
97	Simon Triggs	ENG	(2120)	=93	=87	–60	–61	+82	–51	+91	–45	–78	3
98	Nicole Tagnon	FRA	2040	=99	–108	–64	–50	+102	+88	–34	=68	–65	3
99	Hanneke Van Parreren	NLD	2040	=98	–35	–16	=87	=86	=112	–67	+105	–63	3
100	Karen Cartmel	ENG	(1840)	–86	–76	+82	–92	+107	–75	=89	=91	–77	3
101	Ronald F A Harman	ENG	(2095)	=83	=42	=48	–63	–50	=87	=88	–66	–86	2½
102	M R Segal	AUS	(2030)	–96	–75	–58	=106	–98	–104	=107	=94	+105	2½
103	Jane Garwell (later Richmond)	WLS	2065	+106	–62	=78	–2	–52	–42	=87	–63	=88	2½
104	Neil I Fox	ENG	(2065)	stand-in				–89	+102	–96	=106	+107	2½ / 5
105	Christopher J Morrison	SCO	2240	=80	=27	–23	–32	=42	–68	=70	–99	–102	2
106	Clive D Gilliam	ENG	(2080)	–103	–39	–19	=102	–84	+107	–77	=104	–94	2
107	Laszlo Ficsor	SWE	(2000)	–71	–51	+89	–91	–100	–106	=102	–70	–104	1½
108	Werner Schluter	FRG	(2215)	–29	+98	–52	=42	–16	withdrew				1½ / 5
109	Sidney Norman Bernstein	USA	(2220)	+91	–73	–67	=93	withdrew					1½ / 4
110	David R Lewis	ENG	2235	–72	+77	–6	withdrew						1 / 3
111	Michel Aristegui	FRA	(2020)	+40	-54	withdrew							1 / 2
112	Guy A Novik	ENG	(2000)			-36			=99				½ / 2

¹ given as F Khan in results lists: Leonard Barden thinks his full name may be Farukh Khan.
² published results give the name as V Berger but Leonard Barden is of the opinion that this is indeed Victor Berger (sometimes given as Victor Buerger - 1904-1996) who had not otherwise been an active player for many years. Leonard believes Berger lived near the tournament venue and has a vague memory of greeting him during the event. Berger's name does not appear in records of competition chess that I can find after 1952, nor is he in any grading list that I have looked at, so it is a surprise to find him competing as late as 1981. Here is Berger's 1996 BCM obituary, penned by Bernard Cafferty: "Victor Berger, who for a long time wrote his name as Buerger, died in early March after a distinguished chess career between the wars. Born in Russia in 1904, he came to England as a child and was educated here. In 1922 he won the junior section of the City of London club and by the mid-20s was a leading Middlesex player who took part in cable matches with the USA and played in international tournaments such as London 1927 (see the BCM book of this event) and Margate 1937, where he finished next to last but took the scalp of Alekhine in a wild game marred by time trouble. Note that this was in early April, when Alekhine had not yet recovered his world title from Euwe, so Victor could not aspire to the honour of being a Briton who had beaten the current world title holder. Only Penrose could claim this till the days of Miles and Short. In recent years Victor was a member of the Roehampton club, and was kind enough to make available to BCM mementoes from his collection such as the score sheets of the London 1927 event."

Norms
IM: D Barua (IND), J Cox, G Flear, M Hebden (ENG), G Treppner (FRG)
FM: K Arkell, M Pagden, J Carleton, A Kosten, A Lewis (ENG), R Nokes (NZL), H Cardon, F van der Vliet (NLD).
WFM: Jane Garwell (WLS), Nicole Tagnon (FRA), Hanneke van Parreren (NLD).

Lady Masters: S Jackson (1st on tie-break, ENG), J Miles (ENG), G Fischdick (FRG), E Polihroniade (ROM).

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LLOYD'S BANK, LONDON [from 1981/82 BCF Yearbook, p68 - notes by Stewart Reuben]

25 August - 2 September, 1981 Masters Tournament

The fifth event attracted 7 Grandmasters, 13 International Masters, 10 FIDE Masters, one Woman Grandmaster, 4 Women Masters, one former World Champion and the current World Cadet Champion. Total entry to this, the strongest so far, was 110 of whom 47 were English.

English GM R. Keene played his first major tournament at 'home' since 1975 and enhanced his reputation with a change of style including some extremely dynamic play. First place had to be decided on total of opponent's scores because Tony Miles and Yasser Seirawan (USA) both recovered from early losses to score 7 points. Eight English players did well in their quest for IM and FM norms.

There was also a tie in the Lady Masters. Sheila Jackson, Gisela Fischdick (W. Germany), Jana Miles and Elisabeta Polihroniade (Rumania) all having 4½ points. Sheila Jackson was placed first on total of opponents' scores.

Junior Invitation, 25-28 August 1981 - 97 played.

Rank	1981 Lloyds Bank Junior Invitation	Total
(1-2)	Neil CARR (Central YMCA), Kenneth SHOVEL (St. Paul's School)	6½/8
(3-6)	John Emms (Norwich), Paul E Johnstone (Richmond, Surrey), Nicolas Maarten van Noorden (Farnham), D Holmes (Scotland)	6
(7-18)	G Brown (Muswell Hill), Stuart C Brown (Hull), Angus J Dunnington (Leeds), Neil Fox (Borehamwood), William T Giblin (Redditch), Simon Lazarus (Finchley), Darren L Lee (Finchley), Neil McDonald (Gravesend), A Mitchell-Baker (Ashtead), P Stevenson (Southampton), David J Watts (Harrow), Ian Welch (Portsmouth)	5½
(19-29)	Thomas Borland (Chester), Michael Twyble (Southend), Karl Bowden (Brentwood), R Brown (Woking), Neil Crickmore (Plymouth), David J Edmonds (Hayes), Daniel Feinstein (Streatham), Donald Mason (Birmingham), Nick Pelling (Romford), Nicholas Thomas (Rugby), Graham Waddingham (Nottingham)	5
(30-40)	Bruce L Baer (Muswell Hill), Jagir Bagri (Hounslow), Richard T Blackwell (Richmond), Andrew R Exton (Somerset), R Morrison (Lewisham), Echewodo Nwawudu (Lewisham), Daniel B Rosen (Ashtead), Matthew J Rosseinsky (Exeter), Ian L Thomas (Watford), R Walker (Orpington)	4½
(41-54)	Nigel Birtwistle (Lincs), P Brown (Harrow), Andrew Daley (Portsmouth), Andrew David Deighton (Stoke), Chris Dunworth (Nottingham), J Eastwood (Nottingham), Andrew George H Kluth (Southampton), D Levin (Wembley), Saul Richman (Manchester), A Rose (CentYMCA), Philip Rossiter (Portsmouth), N Stone (Hayes), Tim P Wall (Cleveland)	4
(55-66)	Michael Arundale (Richmond), Jeffrey P Baillie (Portsmouth), Alan Peter Dowton (Orpington), Andrew Dunn (Tyne & Wear), Jonathan P Nelson (Coventry), Iain A Galloway (Hayes), Paul Georghiou (Highgate), Neil R Hackers (Wimbledon), R Ingram (Wolverhampton), R Selway (Harlow), Ian Sim (Sutton), M Smith (CentYMCA), C. Young (Tunbridge Wells)	3½
(67-79)	Andrew Boyne (Exeter), J Brooks (Thornton Heath), J Davy (Surbiton), John E Duggan (Wanstead), Michael T Hennigan (Muswell Hill), S Low (Richmond), N Peters (Harrow), Matthew P Sames (Ilford), Aaron Summerscale (Fulham), A Thomas (Wales), K Walker (Portsmouth), D Wood (Chatham), A Right (Richmond) 3;	3
(80-92)	Mandi S Abraham (Keighley), John D Carlin (Harrow), Gavin Wall (Richmond)	2½
(93-96)	A Wong (Westbridge), R Hayley (Cumbria), Philip Hughes (Harrow), A Mortoravi [Mortazavi?] (Richmond) 2	2
(97)	Parnell (Sutton)	1½

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SIMULTANEOUS DISPLAYS - Monday 24 August 1981

Winners against Smyslov: Peter K Wells, Neil L Carr, Paul E Johnstone, David J Edmonds, Neil I Fox, Darren L Lee, Daniel B Rosen.

Winners against Kraidman: Kenneth L Shovel, Nicolas Maarten van Noorden, Alan Peter Dowton, N H Stone, Tim P Wall, A K Boyne, Andrew Dunn.

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Mount Royal Amateur Championship, Wednesday 26 August to Tuesday 1 September 1981
restricted to players graded under 175 - 16 played.

(1) Guy Novik 5½/7; (2) Manley 5; (3-5) De La Mothe, Moyse, Soesan 4½

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Summary (from the bulletin - presumably by Stewart Reuben)

This Lloyds Bank Masters, the fifth of the series, was unquestionably the strongest. This is reflected in the quality of the games, several of which will appear all over the world. Once again, no player could raise his play sufficiently to win the tournament outright. Quinteros, the Argentinian grandmaster is the only player to have been a lone winner when he scored 8/10 in 1977. This in no way reflects on the whole event, surely it is at its most satisfactory when most competitive. On the other hand it does help columnists if they can announce a winner and thus some sort of tie-break is desirable.

Ray Keene was playing in his first serious tournament in England since 1975. There is no doubt that this event enhanced his reputation. As he said to me, he has changed his style radically recently but I had had no opportunity to see this close up. His play was extremely dynamic and some of the games were very fine indeed. It is true that he ran a number close to the edge and might well have lost but there is no doubt the spectators prefer to see this rather than the solid, positional play of yester-year. His rating performance was 2580.

There was nothing unexpected about the results of Tony Miles and Yasser Seirawan.

We are used to their making big scores in all manner of tournaments. However it must be admitted that Tony’s play was unconvincing in several games and, of course, they both lost in early rounds whereas Ray went through undefeated. Yasser also had a rating performance of 2580 but Tony's was only 2530. These figures are extremely random as some of their opponents were unrated and the English players had to meet lowly ranked women players.

Florin Gheorghiu was extremely disappointed not to win in the last round when he had it virtually within his grasp. Had he won, he would have been adjudged first on the tie-break system which rewards early leaders. The strength of his opposition can be judged by the fact that he had a rating performance of 2560 despite scoring 1 point less. Yair Kraidman added signally to his status. It is heart-warming that somewhat older players can do so well. He has, of course, performed well in England before, including winning the £1200 prize at the National Bank of Dubai Open in the late, lamented Evening Standard Congress.Yet he performed at only 2475, one of the vagaries of the Swiss System.

Yacob Murey was extremely disappointed to lose to Tony Miles in the penultimate round thus putting paid to any hope of a gm norm. He did well to recover his spirits to win in the last round. His 2570 performance has nothing to do with the Swiss System but more to do with the fact that, as we were pairing him to offer the opportunity for a gm norm, he met no unrated opponents. This was Mark Hebden’s first international master result. He actually performed at a rather breath-taking 2550 level, gaining no less than 45 rating points! This makes up for a most disappointing result in the Grieveson, Grant British Championship where he seemed to lose interest at a very early stage - an extremely foolish attitude.

It came as no surprise that Smyslov found this tournament to be not at all his cup of tea. The hurly-burly of a Swiss with a slightly faster time limit is hard to take. He met a very young, nominally weak field that had no respect for past glory. It was extremely noticeable that few of his opponents curled up and died because of his reputation. This is something that is hard to learn and can only be achieved through experience. Another benefit of the Lloyds Bank sponsorship. One wonders why they have not been recipients of The Daily Telegraph awards for sponsorship by companies.

A whole crowd of international masters must have been disappointed not to receive a prize with 6/9. On the other hand, the organisers were pleased that the prizes worked out so systematically so that no silly little sums had to be distributed. Thus in some ways there was little in the whole event for Arnason, Chandler, Formanek, McCambridge, van der Sterren and Saidy. And yet... they enjoyed themselves, played competitive chess and had a shot at the gm norm. It brought Tony Saidy out of retirement and we are besieged each year by ims who wish to play. Without these tournaments what is going to happen to the host of young British players when they mature? What other type of event can possibly offer them the sorely-needed opportunities for master-play? No, Lloyds Bank are to be congratulated on their far-sighted policy in encouraging the participation of masters from all over the world.

Barua and Cox achieved excellent im norms and the young Indian particularly will be a force to be reckoned with in the future, some would say why not now? The norms achieved by Flear and Treppner are less certain and will require ratification by FIDE when they come to apply for their titles if, and when, they achieve 2 more norms. Both Gerubet and Gobet started off too badly to play a sufficient number of rated opponents to achieve a title norm,

World Under 16 Champion Stuart Conquest started off well but faded a little towards the end. Other juniors had mixed results, but the beauty of this event, and others similar such as the Benedictine International in Manchester, is that they are offered opportunities. This also applies to more mature players as well.

Disappointingly none of the women players succeeded in making a plus score. FIDE's much-mocked decision to introduce the Woman FIDE master title did provide a spur at the lower end and two players achieved this result. There is no tournament in the world with a remotely comparable number of women competitors in a mixed event. Personally I have absolutely no doubt that the future of women's chess lies in integration. I also have no doubt that it is highly desirable to treat this area as a disadvantaged section of the community requiring resources to be directed in that direction.

All-in-all I would like to think that this is a highly successful event and, after all, it has been widely imitated. An event which attracts more entries at a time of recession cannot be all bad.

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Date	Notes
(previously)	Originally 119 games, uploaded as a zip file
6 September 2020	Posted here with additional games from subsidiary events and a complete crosstable. 122 games from the Masters tournament, plus four from simuls given by Smyslov and Kraidman on the day preceding the tournament and a game from the Under-16 competition. A note on the extra three Masters games compared with the earlier upload –Popovych-Dickenson (rd 8), Povah-Freeman (rd 8) and Botterill-Schlenker (rd 9): these were all taken from Big Database 2020. Another two games which Big Database 2020 attributes to this tournament (Basman-Barton and Law-Nunn) must have come from a different event as none of these four players took part in it.
7 September 2020	Big Database 2020 and BritBase had this game down as Kraidman (white) vs Gheorghiu, but Andy Ansel says his record of it shows the colours as Gheorghiu with White. This is much more likely as otherwise Kraidman would have had three whites in the last three rounds. Many thanks to Andy.
11 September 2020	A few textual amendments made following some proof-reading by Paul Georghiou, for which many thanks.
14 September 2020	Added two games played by Paul Georghiou in the Lloyds Bank Junior Invitation event added to the download. Thanks, Paul. I've also taken the opportunity to tidy up the crosstable.
17 May 2021	I have added some more results and text material, having rediscovered a copy of the bulletin.
30 December 2022	Four game scores added, all involving the Australian player William J (Bill) Jordan: (1) W.Jordan 0-1 M.Freeman (rd 1); (2) J.Hawksworth 1-0 W.Jordan (rd 2); (3) L.Filipowicz 0-1 W.Jordan (rd 4); (4) N.Povah 1-0 W.Jordan (rd 9). My thanks to Paul Summers for submitting the games. Check out Paul's excellent Australian Chess Games website.
28 December 2023	Amendment applied to M.Freeman 0-1 V.Smyslov (rd 4): four further half-moves given in the bulletin.
28 December 2023	Further amendments applied following comparison checks with Mega Database 2022 and chessgames.com. Stub games removed: the running total is now 128 games plus 7 from related events. N.B. Mega Database 2022 also includes the games Basman 1-0 Barton and Law ½-½ Nunn but these were not played at the 1981 Lloyds Bank tournament. I've not been able to establish the events in which they were played.