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Posted (dd/mm/yy) Tournament Title & Year Winner Contributor, Notes
02/08/26 2001/02 Hastings Congress A Barsov, P Harikrishna, K Sasikiran All 45 games from the Premier (now with dates and round numbers), plus 22 games from the Challengers, 1 from another section and full crosstables of all the main events. Latest: added two games: (1) Z Koneski 1-0 D Howell (Challengers, rd 9); (2) C Ravilious 0-1 M Bryant (New Year B, rd 4). Many thanks to Brian Denman for contributing the games.
02/08/26 1992 Lancashire (Blackpool) Congress Michael Adams First upload: a PGN file of 81 games. Many thanks to Rudy van Kemenade for supplying the games.
02/08/26 1937 Margate R Fine, P Keres All 45 games of the Premier plus 18 from other sections, crosstables. Latest: added the game T Cox 0-1 H Melvin (Major B, rd 7).
30/07/26 1894 North v South South 21 games from the April 1894 North v South match are downloadable here. Latest: added the game E Thorold 1-0 W Atkinson, board 14. Many thanks to Brian Denman for sending.
29/07/26 1926 West of England, Weston-Super-Mare Max Euwe 37 of the 45 games played, with 14 from lower sections. Also a contemporary report and two photos. Latest: Added the game R E Lean 1-0 G Wright (Minor Open).
28/07/26 2026 Sussex University Congress Eldar Gasanov All 255 games from the 2026 Sussex University Masters, plus 449 games from other events and crosstables.
26/07/26 2026 Wood Green Invitational Shreyas Royal All 45 games from this ten-player all-play-all held in Stafford, July 2026.
26/07/26 1993 SCCU International Varugeese Koshy New item: all 160 games of this eight-round international played just prior to the Lloyds Bank Masters. Most of the games have been on Mega Database for some years but with various errors and omissions and without dates. Many thanks to Andy Ansel for applying amendments and supplying a crosstable.
25/07/26 1926/27 Hastings Saviely Tartakower All 45 Premier games and 29 from lower sections, crosstables and results. Latest: The game S.Grüber 0-1 I.Gudju (Major, rd 7), uploaded here as a part-game three years ago, is now a complete score, thanks to Ulrich Tamm spotting the original scoresheet being auctioned online. Many thanks to Ulrich.
20/07/26 1999/2000 Hastings Emil Sutovsky Updated to show games with round numbers and dates, crosstables, reports, etc. No. of games: 45 Premier, 100 Challengers, 27 games from other sections. Latest: Added the game A Elwin 0-1 J Simpole (World Amateur, rd 6). Many thanks to Brian Denman for sending the game.
20/07/26 1998/99 Hastings Ivan Sokolov Now with Premier games dated and with round numbers. 124 Challengers games; 24 games from other sections. Crosstables and results. Latest: Added three games: (1) M Morrison 0-1 J Dodgson (New Year A); (2) K Harris 0-1 M Bryant (New Year B); (3) F Ibrahimov 0-1 K Harris (Weekend Novice). Many thanks to Brian Denman for the games.
20/07/26 1997/98 Hastings Matthew Sadler 45 Premier games, now with round numbers and dates, plus 103 Challengers games (mostly input by Steve Giddins for which many thanks), 13 games from other sections. Latest: Added the games J Brustkern ½-½ J Dodgson (New Year A) and D Graham 0-1 N Donovan (Weekend Open). Many thanks to Brian Denman for submitting the games.
20/07/26 1942 British Forces vs Allied Forces Allied Forces Seven games, plus six stubs. Match results and reports from BCM and CHESS. Latest: one of the stubs, W Hollingdale 1-0 T Bot, replaced with a complete game score. Many thanks to Brian Denman.
20/07/26 "Pawnshop" (Richmond & Twickenham CC Magazine, Sept 1979) A new item added to the BritBase library: a 16-page PDF with games and news. Nine game scores, downloadable here.
18/07/26 Tony Miles games - 984 games played by Tony Miles up to the end of 1979. The majority of the new material that hasn't been available previously consists of games played in UK weekenders. My thanks to Geoff Lawton for digitising these games and giving access to them. My own input has been to discover as many dates and round numbers as possible, and to compare and check versions of the scores. Many tournament record details have still to be added but the PGN file is largely complete to the end of 1979. Latest: Added the games R Woodford 1-0 AJM, 1970 School Match and AJM 1-0 CCW Shephard, Midland Open, March/April 1970. Many thanks to Alan Smith and Gerard Killoran for sending the scores.
16/07/26 Games of Sir George Thomas - A collection of 1,249 games (including 18 part-games & 163 stubs) played by Sir George Thomas (1881-1972) between 1896 and 1949 when he retired from competition chess. Latest: four games added in the last few weeks: (1) H S Stephens 0-1 G A Thomas, St Georges CC, prob. 1899; (2) Dr S F Smith 0-1 G A Thomas, Essex v Devon, corr 1907; (3) G A Thomas 1-0 P H J O'Connor, Kent First Class, Sevenoaks, April 1908; (4) A J Maas 0-1 G A Thomas, 1913/14 City of London Championship. Also, the score of Louisa Fagan 0-1 G A Thomas, SCCU Salisbury 1898, now has all 51 moves played (previously it had the first 28 moves).
14/07/26 1987/88 Hastings Nigel Short All 56 Premier games, plus 36 from the Challengers and 21 from other sections, crosstables, results. Latest: added five games played by Robert Elliston in the Xmas Special A section. Many thanks to Brian Denman for supplying the games.
13/07/26 1970 Manchester Open Vic Knox 22 games from a strong open played in July. Latest: Added the games J Simpole 1-0 H D Holmes and B Hare 1-0 P Wallis. Many thanks to Brian Denman for submitting them.
13/07/26 1996/97 Hastings Congress Rozentalis, Hebden, Nunn 45 games from the Premier, plus 122 from the Challengers, 4 from other sections, and crosstables and results. The tournament bulletin is also available as a PDF. Latest: the game between Bronstein and Kwiatkowski (Challengers, rd 1) has been corrected to show that Bronstein was White. Many thanks to Brian Denman for letting me know.
11/07/26 2026 Sheffield IM S Banerjee, S Chow All 45 games from the July 2026 IM norm ten-player all-play-all. IM norms for Supratit Banerjee (aged 12) and Sam Chow.
09/07/26 1953 (1st) CHESS Festival, Cheltenham Jan Hein Donner The first of BH Wood's two-week summer CHESS Festivals. 14 games and 1 part-game from the Open, plus four games from other sections, crosstables, results and a photo. Many thanks to Andy Ansel for sending the part-score of Barden ½-½ Heidenfeld, rd 6. Latest: Added the game S Milan 0-1 J H Donner (rd 10) and the part-game P Ursell 1-0 T Evensen. Many thanks to Gerard Killoran for submitting the scores.
05/07/26 2026 English County Final Surrey All 16 games of the English County Championship final, played 4 July 2026, in which Surrey beat Middlesex by 8½-7½.
02/07/26 2022 Scarborough Open R Makkar, L Fava 458 games, consisting of 160 from the Open, 115 from the Major and 183 from the Intermediate sections. Latest: added the Major and Intermediate games to the 160 Open games already uploaded here in May 2026. Many thanks to Sean Parker for inputting and sending games. I've added crosstables of all sections.
25/06/26 1935 Margate Samuel Reshevsky All 45 games from the Premier plus 28 games from other events. Latest: Added the game W Schelfhout 1-0 Arthur Eva, Preliminary C, rd 3. Many thanks to Philip Jurgens for submitting the game.
24/06/26 1952 British Championship Bob Wade 62 of a possible 154 games, plus 8 part-games and 52 games from subsidiary sections. Latest: Added the game K R Smith 1-0 K L Gardner, Major Open, rd 5. Also added residence information to the tournament results.
24/06/26 1951 Southsea N Rossolimo, S Tartakower 24 games and 2 part-games from the Stevenson Memorial / SCCU Championsip of April 1951. Complete crosstable, reports, results and two photos. Latest: Added the game A T Watson 0-1 H H Cole, rd 6. Many thanks to Brian Denman for the game.
21/06/26 London Central YMCA (Centymca) Games, 1968-76 - 181 games input from the bulletin The Centymca Story by Jimmy Adams, published in 1976, supplemented with other relevant games sourced from elsewhere. Latest: following Jimmy Adams' recent passing (R.I.P.) I have revisited the file to standardise names, fix a few errors and place the games in chronological order. EDIT (21 June): Added five more games from the Korchnoi simul vs Young England, 17 January 1976, which were published in CHESS Magazine, June 2009: (1) VK wins vs D Cummings, N Davies, J Hodgson, M Pein and R M Webb (the games vs Plasa, Short and Watson were already included).
17/06/26 2025 Hampshire Championship Petr Marusenko 84 games from the Open, plus crosstable and press release, from this five-round weekend congress played in Fareham. My thanks to Graham Stuart for sending the games and information.
14/06/26 Nigel Short's Games 1974-1983/84 - A comprehensive collection of Nigel Short's early games from 1974 onwards. This period will be extended forward in time in due course. Latest: running total now 529 games, up to and including Hastings 1983/84, including 19 stubs. Any help with finding scores and determining precise dating of games much appreciated.
11/06/26 1910 British Championship H E Atkins 36+2 of the 66 games/part-games, 36 games from other sections. Latest: Added the game F Adcock 1-0 A Cliff (First Class). Many thanks to Gerard Killoran for submitting the game via the English Chess Forum.
03/06/26 1992 Greater Manchester Summer Congress   42 games from the June 1992 Greater Manchester Summer Open, plus 24 games from the Major tournament. No dates or round numbers: PGN file only. Many thanks to Andy Ansel for inputting and sending the games.
02/06/26 Peter Griffiths File - 1,027 games played by the well-known Midlands player Peter C Griffiths, with the majority input from Griffiths' own scorebooks by Matthew Tapper. Latest: One addition and one correction, both relating to the 1975 Paignton Premier: the additional game is R Bellin ½-½ PCG (rd 7). The corrected game is PCG 0-1 J Kinlay (rd 6) - this game previously given with Griffiths black and Kinlay white but this must be wrong. Running total now 1,027 games.
17/05/26 1920 British Championship Roland Henry Vaughan Scott 36 of the 66 games of the 1920 British Championship, held in Edinburgh, plus 33 games from other sections. Latest: the final moves of the game Scott 1-0 Blake (rd 10) have been added to the score. Many thanks to Gerard Killoran.
17/05/26 1912 British Championship Richard C Griffith 39+1 of the 66 games/part-games from the 1912 British Championship held in Richmond, Surrey, plus 45 from other sections. Latest: added the part-game W Gibson 1-0 H Uber, Championship rd 7. Many thanks to Gerard Killoran for sending it via the English Chess Forum.
17/05/26 1979 Aaronson Masters Paul Littlewood 124 games from the April 1979 tournament, including all those played by the winner, Paul Littlewood, and Murray Chandler. Latest: Added the game R F Holmes 0-1 R Meulders, rd 1. Many thanks to Nikolaas Verhulst for sending the game.
11/05/26 1948/49 Hastings N Rossolimo All 45 games from the Premier, plus 27 games & part-games from lower sections. Latest: added the game P Bolland 1-0 D O'Sullivan, Premier Reserves Major, rd 1.
11/05/26 1954 British Championship Barden / Phillips 81 of a possible 165 games, plus 2 game fragments, 27 games from other sections and the 10 games of the Barden-Phillips play-off match. Latest: Added the game K Beaumont 1-0 H Watts, Championship rd 4.
11/05/26 1983 Lloyds Bank Masters Yuri Razuvaev (on tie-break) 142+1 games/part-games, game viewer and crosstable. Latest: Added four games played by Cesar Becx: (1) P Rossiter 0-1 C Becx (rd 1); (2) C Becx ½-½ J Hawksworth (rd 2); (3) C Becx 1-0 N Fox (rd 8); (4) J Richardson 0-1 C Becx (rd 9). Many thanks to René Olthof for submitting the games. I've also removed stub games and included board numbers for the games. Also, the crosstable has been updated, showing colour data and correcting errors from the bulletin crosstable. Finally, the bulletin PDF has been replaced with a better scan. EDIT: also added the game Conchita Pluymert-Dwars 1-0 Sheila Jackson, rd 9. Many thanks to Paul Summers for submitting the game.
08/05/26 1980 Jersey International Ian Wells 53 games from the 1980 Jersey (Lloyds Bank) International, won by the late Ian Wells. Latest: Added the game M Boixader 1-0 I Wirya, rd 7. Many thanks to Paul Brown for submitting the game.
07/05/26 1983/84 Hastings Congress L Karlsson, J Speelman All 91 Premier games, plus 26 from other sections. Crosstables of the Premier and Challengers, results of other sections, plus reports and the original bulletin in PDF format. Latest: added ten games played by César Becx in the Challengers section. Many thanks to René Olthof for submitting them.
05/05/26 1978 Lloyds Bank Masters P Littlewood, J Peters, Y Rantanen 235 games from the 2nd Lloyds Bank Masters. Also available is a PDF of the complete bulletin, with crosstables, results, norms and an article by Leonard Barden. Latest: Added the game F Borm 1-0 K Wicker, rd 5.14. Many thanks to René Olthof for sending the game.
05/05/26 1978 EEC Team Championship West Germany New item. All 112 games of this eight-team tournament, held in Middlesbrough.
04/05/26 BCF Victory Congress, Hastings 1919 José Raúl Capablanca 58/66 games from the Chief Tournament, 26/66 from the Minor, 5+2 games/part-games from the British Ladies Championship and 39+2 games/part-games from other sections. Latest: Added the game G Hardcastle 0-1 F Smith, First-Class C. Many thanks to Gerard Killoran for submitting.
03/05/26 1955 An Tóstal, Cork A O'Kelly de Galway 13 games and 4 part-games from the 2nd An Tóstal tournament, held in Cork. Crosstable, report from CHESS, etc. Latest: added two more games: (1) B Wood 1-0 E N Mulcahy (rd 1); (2) B Wood 0-1 T van Scheltinga (rd 4). Many thanks to Ulrich Tamm for submitting the games.
03/05/26 1954 An Tóstal, Dublin A O'Kelly de Galway 3 games, 3 part-games and a crosstable from the 1st An Tóstal tournament, held in Dublin. Latest: Two further game fragments added (both from rd 5): (1) O'Kelly 1-0 K O'Riordan; (2) Soultanbeieff ½-½ Wade. Many thanks to Ulrich Tamm for contributing.
28/04/26 1977 GB-Netherlands Drawn New item. Eight games and 12 stubs from this match, played 29-30 October 1975 in Hartley Wintney. There was minimal coverage in the two national magazines.
28/04/26 The BritBase games archive is now available via a user interface at chesspublishing.com - this has significant advantages if you are seeking specific games or players. The target database, known as BritBase+, is bigger than the sum total of games that are available here on the existing site, and it features more sophisticated search facilities. Do try it - it's completely free to use. The new facility is additional to what appears here at BritBase.info.
28/04/26 1974 Netherlands-GB Netherlands New item. First upload of 5 games and 15 stubs. Results and report from CHESS Magazine. (BCM only mentioned the match in 'Late News'.) Many thanks to René Olthof for sending the two games played by Kuijpers.
28/04/26 1967 GB-Netherlands Gt Britain New item. Nine games, two part-games, 11 stubs, crosstable and report. Many thanks to René Olthof for providing a game score.
27/04/26 1975 NED-ENG (Euro Team Ch) Drawn 8-8 First upload of 12 games and 4 stubs from the December 1975 Netherlands v England European Team Championship qualifying match. Not to be confused with the 1975 Anglo-Dutch match which was held a couple of months earlier.
27/04/26 1975 GB-Netherlands Netherlands New item. Seven games and 13 stubs from this match, played 25-26 October 1975 in Hartley Wintney. There was zero coverage in the two national magazines.
27/04/26 1972 Netherlands-GB Gt Britain Ten games and ten stubs from the Anglo-Dutch match played in Vlissingen in October 1972. Latest: added the game Kuijpers ½-½ Wade (rd 2.4), previously a stub. Many thanks to René Olthof for submitting the score.
27/04/26 1968 Netherlands-GB Netherlands 13 games and 9 stubs of the games played in the England-Netherlands match, Vlissingen, Nov/Dec 1968. Crosstable and reports. Latest: added the game Kuijpers ½-½ Whiteley (rd 2.5), previously a stub. Many thanks to René Olthof for submitting the score.
27/04/26 1964 Netherlands-GB Gt Britain 12-8 Six games plus 16 stubs, scores, photo, report. Latest: added the game Kuijpers ½-½ Kottnauer (rd 2.1), previously a stub. Many thanks to René Olthof for submitting the score.
25/04/26 1937 British Championship William A Fairhurst 44 of the 66 Championship games, plus 25 games from other sections, plus results and crosstables, and a photo from a regional newspaper. Latest: added all six games played by Ron Bruce in the 2nd Week A section. From the Ronald M Bruce collection put together by the late Bill Frost.
21/04/26 1976 London-Belgrade telex match Drawn 4-4 All 8 games played in this April 1976 telex match. Latest: Corrections made to the names of three Belgrade players on boards 2, 7 and 8 (Vladimir Raicevic, Petar Katanic and Dragan Paunovic). Many thanks to Vladica Andrejic of PerpetualCheck.com for drawing my attention to this.
19/04/26 1936/37 Hastings Alexander Alekhine All 45 games from the Premier, plus 39 games (and 10 part-games) from lower sections, crosstables, report and full results. Latest: Added three games from lower sections: (1) E Sapira 0-1 A de Groot, Premier Rserves A (rd 7); (2) E Sergeant 0-1 A de Groot, Premier Reserves A (rd 9); (3) W Winter 0-1 A de Groot, Hastings Blitz tournament 4.1.1937. Many thanks to Andy Ansel, who found these games in the 2025-published (Dutch language) book Adrianus Dingeman de Groot 1914-2006 Schaker en Schaakpsycholoog by Peter De Jong and Henk Visser.
15/04/26 1956 An Tóstal, Dublin A O'Kelly de Galway 28 games and crosstable from the 3rd An Tóstal tournament, held in Dublin.
14/04/26 2026 Guildford Open Adam A Taylor 107 games from this April five-round open. Games and crosstable from chess-results.
14/04/26 2026 Warwick University Open Arya Cont 98 games from this Feb/March five-round open. Games and crosstable from chess-results.
14/04/26 2026 Cheadle Open Mieszko Mis 93 games from this February 2026 six-round open, unusually held Tuesday-Thursday. Games and crosstable from chess-results.
14/04/26 2026 Kidlington Open Marcus Harvey, Michael Fernandez 50 games and crosstable from the Jan/Feb 2026 weekender, from chess-results.com.
14/04/26 1898 Southern Counties Congress J Blake, W Ward 35 games from the Southern Counties' Congress held in Salisbury, 12-20 September 1898. Latest: added the game R F B Jones 0-1 K B Finn, Second Class section. Many thanks to Gerard Killoran for contributing the game.
13/04/26 1979 Brighton International Jon Speelman All 45 games from this December 1979 tournament plus all four games from the Lod Prins vs Peter Wells match which ran alongside.
12/04/26 Games of Mike Basman - 1,444 of Mike Basman's games of which 15 are part-games, 33 are stubs and 3 are problems which Basman composed in his early teens. Latest: René Olthof sent me some updates to Basman's games at the Soultanbeieff Memorial Open in Liège in 1981. René supplied stubs for Mike Basman's first two games plus round numbers and dates for all the games.
08/04/26 1976/77 Hastings Oleg Romanishin 105 games from the Premier, plus 81 games from the Challengers and other sections, crosstables and results. Latest: Added the game J Fedorowicz 0-1 J Gralka, Challengers rd 9. Many thanks to Ulrich Tamm for submitting the game.
08/04/26 1975/76 Hastings Bronstein, Hort, Uhlmann All 120 Premier games, 46 games from the Challengers, 7 from other sections. plus crosstables of the Premier and Challengers, results of subsidiary events and reports from magazines. Latest: added the game V Schlick ½-½ K Pytel, Challengers rd 3. Many thanks to Ulrich Tamm for submitting the game.
07/04/26 2026 Daventry 4NCL Easter Congress S Gumulrz, M Harvey 45 games from the GM norm event played at Daventry over the Easter weekend, in which Marcus Harvey achieved a GM norm, plus the 45 games from the IM norm event and 159 games from the Open tournament, and accompanying crosstables.
07/04/26 2007/08 Hastings Masters Malakhatko, Mamedov, Neverov 499 games, with a full crosstable.
06/04/26 2006/07 Hastings Masters Gagunashvili, Neverov 433 games, with a full crosstable. Not new here but a few corrections have been made to what appeared in 2006.
05/04/26 1982 Karpov Simul v Eng Juniors Karpov 16, Juniors 9 A PGN file with five games from the ARC-sponsored simul given by Anatoly Karpov against 25 top English juniors at Westergate, Sussex, on 13 April 1982. Plus a PDF of the 16-page event programme, sent to me by Simon Dighton, for which many thanks.
04/04/26 1971 British Championship Raymond Keene All 198 games of the championship proper, plus 50 games from other sections, crosstables, full results of all sections, etc. Latest: added five more games played by Jon Speelman in the Under-21 Championship: (1) J Speelman 0-1 L A Edwards (rd 1); (2) M O'Hara 1-0 J Speelman (rd 6, the complete score replacing two part-games previously posted); (3) J Speelman 1-0 M Staples (rd 7); (4) N Povah 0-1 J Speelman (rd 8); (5) A Miles ½-½ J Speelman (rd 11). Many thanks to Jon Speelman for submitting these games.
01/04/26 Ian Wells Collection - This collection of games played by Ian Duncan Wells (1964-82), originally started by Sean Parker, now numbers 326 entries (plus 7 stubs). Latest: added six more games: (1) A Stolow 0-1 I Wells, British U11 1975; (2) D McGregor 0-1 I Wells, Cleveland v Cumbria 1975; (3) I Wells 1-0 J Wilcock, Morecambe Club Ch 1975/76; (4) A Graham 0-1 I Wells, Carlisle v Morecambe match 1976; (5) I Wells 0-1 SJ Taylor, NN 1976; (6) I Wells 1-0 J Ruse Nat Bank of Dubai Evening Standard Open 1976. Many thanks to Sean Parker for submitting the games.
31/03/26 2009/10 Hastings Masters Four-way tie 457 games plus crosstable.
31/03/26 2010/11 Hastings Masters D Senggupta, A Das 448 games plus crosstable.
29/03/26 1992 Bolton Congress   Link to a PGN file with 71 games (40 Open, 31 Major) from the 1992 Bolton Easter Congress. Many thanks to Andy Ansel for submitting them. The bulletin did not have round numbers, dates or crosstables.
29/03/26 1992 Walsall Kipping Jubilee Open Murray Chandler Link to a PGN file of 55 games from this very strong weekender, with seven GMs taking part.
28/03/26 1994/95 Hastings Thomas Luther The Premier games now have round numbers and dates, plus crosstable. Also added 120 games from the Challengers (plus 7 stubs). Latest: (1) added the game J Shaw 0-1 L McShane, Challengers rd 8; (2) applied an amendment to the score of D Kolbus 0-1 D Bronstein, Challengers rd 5. Many thanks to Andy Ansel for the above additions/amendments; (3) added the part-game J P Wallace 0-1 R Sherbakov, Challengers rd 6. Many thanks to Paul Wallace for submitting.
27/03/26 2000/01 Hastings Stuart Conquest, Krishnan Sasikiran Major update: 45 Premier games now with dates and round numbers, plus 132 Challengers games and 43 from other sections. Crosstables of all sections.
27/03/26 1992/93 Hastings Judit Polgar, Evgeny Bareev The Premier games now have dates & round numbers. Added 148 Challengers games, plus 37 from other sections. Crosstables and results added. Latest: added two games: : (1) M Hebden 1-0 E Holland, Challengers rd 4 (This game sometimes appears on databases as Hebden 1-0 C Holland but there was no such pairing and I'm pretty sure it must have been Edward (not Chris) Holland playing Black); (2) A Martin 0-1 H Metz, Challengers, rd 1. Many thanks to Andy Ansel.
22/03/26 1938 Plymouth Jubilee G Thomas, A Alekhine 22 of the 28 games from the Plymouth Premier, where first place was shared by Sir George Thomas and Alekhine. Plus 14 games from subsidiary events. Latest: added two further games played by Fred Turner in First Class B: (1) C Nightingale 1-0 F Turner, rd 1; (2) M Lander ½-½ F Turner. Many thanks to Sean Parker for submitting these games. EDIT: Plus two more games: (1) G Anderson 1-0 C Welch, Premier Reserves B, rd 2; (2) F P Wenman 1-0 P Moore, Major, rd 1. Many thanks to Ulrich Tamm for submitting the games.
21/03/26 1969 British Championship Jonathan Penrose All 176 games, plus 174 games from other sections. Latest: Added the game J Speelman 1-0 C M Cooley, U14 Championship. Many thanks to Jon Speelman for submitting the game.
21/03/26 1969 Northern Open, Whitby Max Fuller 17 games plus a complete crosstable of this 11-round, two-week event. Latest: Added two games: (1) L Grahn 1-0 T Bimpson, rd 8; (2) T Bimpson 1-0 Geoffrey Chesters, rd 10.
16/03/26 2026 British Rapidplay Ch'ship Freddie Waldhausen Gordon All 1,100 games and the crosstable.
15/03/26 1997/98 Hastings Matthew Sadler 45 Premier games, now with round numbers and dates, plus 103 Challengers games (most input by Steve Giddins for which many thanks), 2 Weekend Open games and 9 World Amateur Championship games.
14/03/26 1944 Blackpool Premier David Hooper 10 of the 15 games in this six-player round-robin. Hooper 3½, Wahltuch 3, Rhodes, Abrahams, Gurnhill 2½, Mieses 1. Latest: Added Fred Turner's other four games from First Class Section 5, contributed by Sean Parker, for which many thanks. Also added T Farrell 1-0 A Van Zetten, found in a newspaper.
14/03/26 1945 Blackpool Gerald Abrahams 11 of 15 Premier games, 2 part-games, 2 stubs + 7 games from other sections. The Morry-Wood game is given in two parts (opening moves & endgame). Plus magazine reports and two photos. Latest: added all five games played by Fred Turner in Major A. Many thanks to Sean Parker for contributing them.
09/03/26 2026 Varsity Oxford-Cambridge match Drawn All eight games of the 144th Varsity Chess Match between Oxford and Cambridge universities, hosted by the RAC, Pall Mall, on 7 March. Full report with photos.
04/03/26 Games of Victor Russ (1905-1985) - Victor John Anthony Russ was a strong English player from the late 1920s through to the 1980s who won the Leicestershire Championship twice, the Lancashire Championship once and also won a BCF Major Open tournament. I was pleased to be loaned a collection of his scorebooks by his son Steve Russ, to whom many thanks. The collection is not comprehensive - there are no games from Russ's pre-WW2 competitions - but the job of inputting the great majority of Russ's games from 1947 to 1984 is now complete. 687 games, plus a summary of Russ's playing career, crosstables, etc.
26/02/26 1949/50 Hastings Congress Laszlo Szabo All 45 games of the Premier and 14 games from other sections. Latest: Added the game W R Morry 1-0 A Phillips, Premier Reserves Major.
24/02/26 2026 Isle of Wight Masters three-way tie 467 games from the February 2026 Isle of Wight Masters.
24/02/26 2026 Isle of Wight - other sections 410 games from other sections at the 2026 Isle of Wight Congress.
24/02/26 1949 Southsea Rossolimo 53+3 of the 140 games, plus 4 from consultation games and a lower section. Latest: Added some part-games and annotations and applied amendments, from Golombek's book of the tournament (now available in the BritBase library - many thanks to Paul Brown). 53 games and 3 part-games from the tournament proper, 3 consultation games and 1 game from a lower section.
21/02/26 2026 South Wales Open James Tapp 84 games from the South Wales Winter Open held in Bridgend, 23-25 January. Many thanks to Rudy van Kemenade for submitting the games.
20/02/26 1938 Plymouth Jubilee G Thomas, A Alekhine 22 of the 28 games from the Plymouth Premier, where first place was shared by Sir George Thomas and Alekhine. Plus 12 games from subsidiary events. I've also pieced together the crosstables of subsidiary events, barring a handful of missing results. Latest: added 3 games played by Fred Turner in the First Class B section: (1) F Turner 1-0 J Keeble (rd 2); (2) J Nabarro 1-0 F Turner (rd 6); (3) F Turner 0-1 G Peck (rd 7). Many thanks to Sean Parker for submitting these games.
18/02/26 1973 ENG-NED m Netherlands 11 of the 20 games played in the England vs Netherlands match, played in Manchester in October. Former world champion Max Euwe put in an unexpected appearance and drew two games with Ray Keene.
16/02/26 1932/33 Hastings Salo Flohr All 45 games of the Premier, 46 from other sections, plus crosstables, results and reports. Latest: added the game C Palmer 0-1 J Doyle (Major B, rd 4). Contributed via the English Chess Forum by Sean Coffey, 16 February 2026, for which many thanks.
13/02/26 2026 Shropshire Congress John Potter 60 games from the Open and 34 from other sections. Many thanks to Rudy van Kemenade for sending the games.
05/02/26 1998 Herts Open Jim Plaskett 38 games plus a crosstable from the tournament held in Hitchin, December 1998.
04/02/26 1998 Surrey Open Mark Hebden 15 games plus a full crosstable.
03/02/26 1996 Morecambe Open Keith Arkell 86 games from the Open and 99 from the Major. Many thanks to Sean Parker for inputting and sending the games.
03/02/26 1995 Morecambe Open Mark Hebden, Keith Arkell 94 games from the Open and 124 from the Major. Many thanks to Sean Parker for inputting and sending the games.
03/02/26 1994 Morecambe Open Mike Surtees 103 games from the Open and 53 from the Major. Many thanks to Sean Parker for inputting and sending the games.
03/02/26 1993 Morecambe Open James C Howell 117 games from the Open and 57 from the Major. Many thanks to Sean Parker for inputting and sending the games.
31/01/26 1973 CHESS Festival, Teesside A Adorjan, L Alster New item. 44 games and crosstable of the annual CHESS Festival fortnight, run that year alongside the World Junior on Teesside. Also five games from other events. Many thanks to Andy Ansel, Norman Stephenson and Mike Donnelly for making games available.
30/01/26 1976 West of England Championship Derek Wise, Shaun Taulbut New item. 33 games plus 1 from a minor section. Most of the games were sent to me by David LeMoir, for which many thanks; others are from the JM Aitken games collection and elsewhere.
29/01/26 1975 West of England Championship Peter H Clarke (on tie-break) New item. 32 games. Most of the games (plus a crosstable) were sent to me by David LeMoir, for which many thanks; others are from the JM Aitken games collection.
29/01/26 1974 West of England Championship Derek M Wise New item. 22 games. Most of the games (plus a crosstable) were sent to me by David LeMoir, for which many thanks; others are from the JM Aitken games collection.
29/01/26 1972 Teesside International Bent Larsen New item. 120 games, crosstable and magazine report. Plus 18 games from subsidiary events. Thanks to Andy Ansel, Tim Harding and Norman Stephenson for games. Latest: Many thanks to Gert Ligterink who points out an error in Portisch-Parma, round 14: Black played 65...Rb4, not 65...Rh4 which would have allowed the more obvious win with 66 b6.
29/01/26 1973 West of England Championship Derek Wise, David LeMoir New item. 21 games. Most of the games (plus a crosstable) were sent to me by David LeMoir, for which many thanks; others are from the JM Aitken games collection.
27/01/26 1972 West of England Championship Andrew R B Thomas New item. 22 games. Most of the games (plus a crosstable) were sent to me by David LeMoir, for which many thanks. Some games are from the JM Aitken collection.
26/01/26 1991 Duncan Lawrie English KO Championship Nigel Short New item. All the games (16 classical and 10 rapid) from this eight-player knock-out event held 10-19 December.
26/01/26 BritBase Library - The BritBase library has expanded considerably. It now features all 18 Lloyds Bank Masters bulletins, plus some West of England Championship bulletins from the early 1960s.
26/01/26 1991 Watson, Farley & Williams A Khalifman, W Watson New item. All 91 games, with round numbers and dates, plus a crosstable.
23/01/26 1953 Bognor Regis W Winter, H Golombek 15 of the 28 games of this eight-player round robin, played as the main event of the first Bognor Regis congress. Also three part-games and four games from lower sections. Latest: Added five games played by the Californian player Henry Gross: (1) H Golombek 1-0 H Gross, rd 2; (2) R Boxall ½-½ H Gross, rd 4; (3) P List 1-0 H Gross, rd 5; (4) H Gross ½-½ W Winter, rd 6; (5) W Heidenfeld 1-0 H Gross, rd 7. Many thanks to Andy Ansel for sending me the games.
22/01/26 1960 West of England Congress Andrew R B Thomas 23 games from the 15th West of England Championship held in Bristol, April 1960. Many thanks to Graham Stuart for forwarding the bulletin.
21/01/26 1969 Staffordshire Open D W Anderton, P C Griffiths, A J Miles 8 games from the event. Many thanks to Andy Ansel for sending the games and crosstable.
21/01/26 1939 Margate Paul Keres All 45 games from the Premier, plus 32+7 games/part-games from other sections, crosstables and results. Latest: added the game D B Scott/Schultz 0-1 A J Peters, Premier Reserves B, rd 11, kindly contributed by Sean Coffey via the English Chess Forum.
21/01/26 1971 Staffordshire Open A Miles, D Anderton 35 games from the Open event, plus 3 from the Candidates' section. Many thanks to Andy Ansel for supplying the scores. Crosstables of all sections.
18/01/26 1948 Birmingham Junior International Hans Bouwmeester 9 games from the under-20 international held in Birmingham, November 1948: one of the first of its kind. Many thanks to Ulrich Tamm for the game H Bouwmeester 1-0 J Alexander.
18/01/26 1929/30 Hastings José Raúl Capablanca 25 of the 45 Premier games, now with 27 games from subsidiary sections, 3 part-games, crosstables, report and photos. Latest: added the game F Safran 1-0 G Brown, rd 8, Major B. Many thanks to Ulrich Tamm for sending the game.
17/01/26 1909 British Championship H E Atkins All 62 Championship games played in Scarborough, 3 from the play-off, 31 from other sections. Latest: added three games: (1) W Atkinson 1-0 L McGuire, First Class A; (2) C Bolland 0-1 S Jackson, Second Class C; (3) S Jackson 1-0 F Forrest, Second Class C. Many thanks to to Gerard Killoran for submitting the games via the English Chess Forum.
16/01/26 1906 British Championship H E Atkins 32 games and 1 part-game from the 1906 British Championship held in Shrewsbury, plus 33 stubs and 28 games from subsidiary events. Latest: Added the game G Schories 1-0 J Chambers, First Class, rd 7 - many thanks to Gerard Killoran for supplying the score. Other updates include round numbers and dates for other games from the First Class tournament (as I have managed to deduce the draw numbers).
16/01/26 1973 Paignton Congress Peter C Griffiths New item. 20 games from the Premier and 7 from Challengers A. Crosstables and results.
15/01/26 1971 Robert Silk & Paignton Congress R Bellin, W Hartson; J Century, AH Williams 11 games from the Robert Silk & Paignton Premier events held alongside each other. I'm surprised not to find more games for these strong events. Latest: added one game and one part-game played by Richard Beach in the Premier, plus all seven games played by Victor Russ in Premier Reserves A.
12/01/26 Games of Dr JM Aitken - A collection of games played by leading Scottish player Dr James M Aitken (1908-1983), with a vast number input by Geoff Chandler. 2,281 game entries in total including 20 stubs and games defaulted by opponents. Latest: mostly stubs but one complete game score of significance: G Dickson 0-1 J Aitken, Scottish Championship, July 1961
12/01/26 1961 Southend Premier James B Howson New item. Five of the 15 games played in the Southend Premier, 31 March - 3 April 1961, all involving John Littlewood.
12/01/26 1961 British Championship Jonathan Penrose 184 of the 187 games in the championship, plus 1 part-game, 2 stubs, plus 42 games (and 7 part-games) from other sections. Latest: added two games - C Parsons 1-0 A Brodie and J Hawkes 0-1 A Whiteley, both from the Under-18 Championship - plus five part-games from the Under-18 and Under-15 sections.
09/01/26 2025/26 Hastings Alexander Kovchan, Alex Golding 461 games from the 99th Hastings Masters, plus 232 games from the weekend congress, plus crosstables.
07/01/26 1970 Northern Open, Whitby Max Fuller 24 games and a complete crosstable from this 71-player event, played in July/August over 11 rounds. Latest: added four games: (1) W Vellekoop 0-1 G Rouverol (rd 3); (2) E Tranmer 1-0 R de Milliano (rd 6); (3) L Tate 0-1 T Wickens (rd 5); (4) T Wickens 1-0 B Eley (rd 6). And three more added (7 Jan) from Schach-Echo cuttings kindly provided by Ulrich Tamm: (1) D Randall 0-1 H Jühe (rd 2); (2) M Faber 0-1 L Rellstab (rd 4); (3) Krautschneider 1-0 J McCarthy (rd 5).
01/01/26 1978 Aaronson Open Vlastimil Hort A six-round weekender held in Harrow in September 1978 (and not to be confused with the Aaronson Masters held earlier the same year). 34 games plus details of high scorers, magazine and newspaper reports. Latest: added the game N Povah 1-0 L Pinto, submitted by Steve Giddins, for which many thanks. Also added was M Basman ½-½ C Frostick - thanks to Altranig Basman.
01/01/26 1977 Karpov Clock Simul v Englands U17s Karpov 9½-½ All 10 games from this clock simul held on 14 August in London. First uploaded here in 2000, it now features a table of results and two images.
01/01/26 Happy new year to all BritBase readers and contributors.
31/12/25 1973 World U20 Ch'ship Alexander Beliavsky All 447 games from the World U20 Championship, held in Teesside, July/August 1973.
31/12/25 1973 European Team Ch'ship Soviet Union All 224 games from the European Team Championship, held in Bath in July 1973.
24/12/25 1982 Sweden v England England 16 games from the European Team Champioship preliminary match held in Goteborg in March 1982, plus a game played by the reserve players. Many thanks to Andy Ansel for sending the games.
20/12/25 Gerald Bennett's Games - Sadly, Gerald Bennett (1949-2025) died recently. He recorded many successes in UK weekend tournaments of the early 1970s. Latest: now 124 games with the addition of five games sent in by Graham Stuart and two by Gerard Killoran, for which many thanks.
15/12/25 Leonard Barden's Games - A collection of Leonard Barden's games. My thanks to Andy Ansel, Ulrich Tamm, Brian Denman and Leonard Barden himself for their help with this. Latest: added the game L Barden 0-1 T Store, International Students Team Championship, Brussels, rd 8, 24.03.1953. My thanks to Robert Bergersen for supplying the score. 478 game entries, including 22 part-games and 68 stubs.
12/12/25 2025 Southend Congress Various 475 games from various sections at the Southend Congress, held in April.
11/12/25 2025 Scarborough Congress L Fava, S Badacsonyi 142 games from the Open and 79 from the Challengers, played in October.
11/12/25 2025 Witney Open Yichen Han 69 games from the Witney Open held in November, plus 31 games from the U2000 section.
11/12/25 2025 Manchester Summer Open Four-way tie 80 games from the Manchester Summer Open, a.k.a. the Harry Lamb Memorial, held in Bolton in August.
11/12/25 2025 Hull 4NCL Congress Rafe Martyn 300 games from the Hull 4NCL Open and subsidiary events, held in September.
11/12/25 2025 Swindon Congress Keith Arkell 218 games from the Swindon Open and subsidiary events, held in August.
11/12/25 2025 Sussex University Congress Adrián Suárez Uriel 45 games from the Sussex University Invitational tournament, held in August, and 96 games from the five-round open tournament held alongside.
09/12/25 2025 XTX London Super-Rapid Nikolas Theodorou 676 games from the 10-round rapidplay tournament played as part of the London Classic event.
09/12/25 2025 XTX Round Robins Various 175 games from the 12 six-player round robin tournaments played as part of the London Classic Congress.
09/12/25 Games of Vera Menchik - A collection of Vera Menchik's games. 584 game entries, including stubs; the total of complete scores is 454 and part-games is 15. Latest: added the game V Menchik 0-1 Frederick Elford Gulley, Harrogate simul, 12.10.1934, in which Vera Menchik scored +14=4-1. Many thanks to Gerard Killoran for contributing the game via the English Chess Forum, 8 December 2025.
08/12/25 2025 London Chess Classic N Abdusattorov 45 Games and crosstable of the 2025 London Classic. Also the Masters open event (495 games).
07/12/25 1911 British Championship HE Atkins (after play-off) 31 of the 66 games, plus 17 games from subsidiary events. Latest: Added the game W Palmer ½-½ H Atkins (Championship, rd 1). Many thanks to Nick Pinkerton for sending the score.
07/12/25 Games of H E Atkins - Collection of games played by Henry Ernest Atkins (1872-1955), nine times British Champion. Running total of Atkins' games now 389 (including 6 part-games and 32 stubs). Latest: Added the game W Palmer ½-½ H Atkins (Championship, rd 1). Many thanks to Nick Pinkerton for sending the score.
28/11/25 1922 London Tournament Capablanca All 120 games from the celebrated international tournament played in London 100 years ago, plus 39 games from subsidiary events. This was the official BCF Congress for 1922. Latest: added a lightning game Alekhine 1-0 Muffang, most probably played in the first lightning tournament on 8 August but possibly in the second lightning tournament on 12 August. Many thanks to Alan Smith for submitting the score.
24/11/25 1972 Staffordshire Open John Carleton 95 games from the event. Many thanks to Andy Ansel for inputting and sending the games, also to Roger de Coverly for helping to amend scores.
23/11/25 2025 UK Blitz Championships D Gormally (Open); B Sivanandan (Women) All 240 games from the UK Blitz Championships held on 22 November 2025 in Leamington, plus crosstables. First uploaded. Games and information from chess-results.com
20/11/25 1993/94 Hastings Congress John Nunn Now complete with round numbers and dates, plus crosstable, plus games and crosstables from the Premier and Challengers, and results from other sections. All 45 Premier games, 131 Challengers games/part-games. My thanks to Steve Giddins for sending me images of the bulletin so that I could construct a crosstable, Richard James for letting me have a physical copy of the bulletin and Ian Thompson for his own games, as a result of which I have been able to determine round numbers and dates and also make various amendments to the games compared to their appearance on Mega Database 2022. The original bulletin is also available as a PDF.
20/11/25 1913 British Championship Fred D Yates 34 of the 66 games from the Championship, plus 39 from other sections. Latest: added the game C Wardhaugh 1-0 Dr J Schumer, Major Open, rd 10. Many thanks to Michael Kühl for submitting the game. (The newspaper cutting referred to it as being played in Richmond but, as Michael points out, this is clearly an error.)
20/11/25 1978 Glasgow Open Four-way tie New item (13 Nov): 97 games from the September 1978 Glasgow Open, input and submitted by Alistair Maxwell, for which many thanks. I have added a full crosstable. Latest: now includes the 30 games of the junior international which ran alongside. Many thanks to Alistair Maxwell.
19/11/25 1974 England v West Germany England All 20 games from England's match victory over West Germany in March 1974 (despite being heavily outrated on every board). Latest: many thanks to Altranig Basman for scanning his father's copy of the match bulletins, as a result of which we now have all 20 game scores.
18/11/25 1973 Ilford Open Alan Phillips 40 games from the 1973 Ilford Open, published in the tournament bulletin. Latest: Added the game P W G Loyd 0-1 M J Basman (rd 1) and added a few moves to the end of M J Basman ½-½ V W Griffiths (rd4).
17/11/25 1926 British Championship Fred D Yates 53 of the 66 games from the 1926 British Championship held in Edinburgh, plus 34 games from other sections. Latest: added the game E Znosko-Borovsky 1-0 G Moses, Major Open, rd 5. Many thanks to Ulrich Tamm for submitting the game. EDIT: Added the games R Barnett ½-½ F Dix (First Class) and Mrs MM Sim 0-1 H Doran (Third Class A). Many thanks to Gerard Killoran for submitting the games.
14/11/25 1971 Bayswater Blindfold Simul S Mariotti
+8=1-1		 First uploaded to BritBase: all 10 games from Sergio Mariotti's blindfold simul, Bayswater CC, 17 January 1971, which were published in Bayswater Chess, Vol.1, no.s 3-4, June-September 1971. Thanks to Richard James for providing the bulletin and Steve Giddins for inputting the games.
13/11/25 1923 British Championship Sir George Thomas 51+2 games/part-games of the 66 played in the British Championship, plus 53 from other events. Latest: added two games: (1) H N S Heath 1-0 C H Taylor (General C); (2) P J Lawrence 1-0 F Wilkinson (Premier Prelim. 5). Many thanks to Gerard Killoran for submitting the games.
12/11/25 1955 Bognor Regis, Stevenson Memorial A O'Kelly de Galway 15 games, 3 part-games and 1 informal game played by the organiser, plus a photo of all the players, a full crosstable, reports, etc. Latest: added the game Tartakower ½-½ O'Kelly, rd 6. Also, the mystery of the misattributed O'Kelly-Sturm has been solved. Many thanks to Philip Jurgens for the game and the solution to the mystery.
10/11/25 Games of Michael Franklin - 739 games (including 38 stubs) played by Michael Franklin, who died in 2023, aged 92. He was a courteous, affable man and a very fine player over some six decades. Latest: some games from the 1994 Sutton Open added.
09/11/25 1994 Surrey Open Mike Basman 63 games from the 1994 Surrey Open plus 41 games from other sections of the Easter congress. Many thanks to Steve Giddins who very kindly volunteered to input the games for BritBase from the official bulletin. The bulletin had no details of results but I have been able to source these from the SCCU bulletin archive and Chess Circuit No.5 (1994).
31/10/25 2025 Coventry International V Plat, Wang H, S Lohia 318 games and crosstable.
30/10/25 1978/79 Hastings Ulf Andersson New item. 105 games from the Premier plus 35 games from other sections. Crosstable of the Premier (though not of the Challengers - can one be found?) and results of lower sections. Latest: added the game A Haik 0-1 R Britton (Challengers).
29/10/25 1963 Northern Open, Whitby B H Wood 32 games from the Open, plus two from other sections. Full crosstable, report, other section results. Latest: added three games: (1) F N Stephenson 0-1 B H Wood (rd 2); (2) M Basman 1-0 F N Stephenson (rd 3); (3) F N Stephenson ½-½ W Alles (rd 11). Many thanks to Norman Stephenson for sending me the scores.
28/10/25 1972 British Championship Brian Eley All 180 championship games, plus 57 from other sections. Latest: added two games from the Major Open (J Sugden 1-0 O Hardy and J Lehmensick 0-1 O Hardy) and one from the U21 (M Yeo 1-0 M Staples, rd 1).
25/10/25 1980 SCCU Championship & Surrey Open P Large, D Cummings; J Nunn & G Sax New item. 17 games from the 1980 SCCU (Southern Counties) Championship, plus 12 games from the Surrey Open. My thanks to Brian Denman and Kevin Thurlow for supplying most of the games.
24/10/25 1973 Hexagon Woolacombe Masters Ray Keene 24 of a possible 45 games (plus 1 stub game) from this ten-player all-play-all. I'm surprised that more games have not been published from this event. Was there a bulletin? Latest: Added three further scores (Markland-Basman, Basman-Hutchings, Basman-Cardoso) plus one stub (Jamieson-Basman). All the games now have round numbers and dates. Draw numbers also included (standard Berger pairings).
20/10/25 1950 Southsea Bisguier, Tartakower The 2nd Stevenson Memorial doubled as the Southern Counties' Chess Union (SCCU) Championship, held in Southsea, 12-22 April 1950. Latest: now 61 (plus 3 part-games) of a possible 204 games. Added one part-game: R Wade 1-0 A T Watson (rd 4).
20/10/25 1950 Birmingham Junior (U20) International Bjorn Karl Haggqvist 24 games (plus 1 part-game, from a possible 110 played) from the Junior International held alongside the Birmingham Easter Congress (this has a claim to be the first ever junior international chess tournament). Plus 4+1 games/part-games from the Midland Championship. Latest: Added the game R L Sweeney 1-0 G van Bastelaere, Junior International, rd 3, plus three games from Nikolaas Verhulst's Belgian Chess History website, and one extra part-game from the Midland Championship.
19/10/25 1989 Northumberland Open David J Walker New item. 106 games from the seven-round weekender, input and sent by Andy Ansel, for which many thanks.
19/10/25 Murray Chandler's Games, 1972-2008 - 2,436 games played by Murray Chandler. First posted here in 2020 and later extended to include all the New Zealand GM's extant games. Latest: added the game M Chandler 1-0 J Curdo, rd 5, Bermuda Open 2000. Many thanks to Andy Ansel for sending the score.
16/10/25 1951/52 Hastings Svetozar Gligoric All 45 Premier games plus 17 games from subsidiary tournaments, crosstables, press cuttings, etc. Latest: added the game Simone Bussers 1-0 (Edmond) Noel Mulcahy, Premier Reserves B. Many thanks to Nikolaas Verhulst for sending the game.
16/10/25 1910 Kent Congress Fred D Yates 13+4 games/stubs (First Class), 5+1 games/stubs (Kent v Netherlands match), 2 games (Championship), crosstables, reports, results. Latest: A further five games from the First-Class section added: (1) A Louis 0-1 F Yates, rd 3; (2) L Dewing 1-0 G Schories, rd 4; (3) L Dewing 0-1 F Yates, rd 5; (4) G Schories 1-0 F Yates, rd 6; (5) F Yates 1-0 B Fisher, rd 7. Many thanks to Gerard Killoran for contributing these via the English Chess Forum.
10/10/25 1903 Kent Congress Georg Schories First upload. Seven games from the First Class section, plus 12 from other sections, Pillsbury and Blackburne simuls, crosstables, reports, results and biographical information. Latest: added the game G Thomas 1-0 T Taylor, rd 5. Many thanks to Alan Smith for sending the score.
09/10/25 2025 English Senior Championships Peter Wells (over 50); Paul Townsend (over 65) All the games from the English Over 50 and Over 65 Championships held in Kenilworth in April 2025.
09/10/25 1981 Varsity Oxford-Cambridge Oxford Four games, results, photos, reports. Latest: added the game J Branford 1-0 P P Taylor, board 6.
07/10/25 1964 West of England Ch'ship Jeffrey Ansell (on tie-break) First upload. 16 Championship games, plus 5 from other sections, crosstables, reports. I am grateful to Sir Denis Gray and Chris Kreuzer for sight of the bulletin. Chris Kreuzer very kindly agreed to make contact with Sir Denis who shared the souvenir bulletin with him. All the JM Aitken games were input some years ago by Geoff Chandler. Many thanks to all three.
06/10/25 1990 Scottish Championship Steve R Mannion First uploaded. All 63 games plus crosstable and other results. (The ChessBase Mega Database version has the games but undated and with an incorrect result for Swan-MacKay, rd 8.)
05/10/25 1966 Glorney Cup England 22 games and 10 part-games from the 1966 Glorney Cup Junior International Team Tournament. Latest: I am very grateful to Dominique Thimognier for sending me a press cutting from Le Populaire du Centre which has comprehensive biographical information about the participants in this tournament. I have updated the text details accordingly. The press clipping also had two game scores, Benoit 1-0 Davies, rd 1, and B Fargette 1-0 P Boersma, rd 3, which have been added to the collection.
03/10/25 1965/66 Hastings Spassky, Uhlmann 45 Premier games, 43 complete scores and 23 part-games from the Challengers, and 3 other games. Latest: Added two games: (1) H Lantz 0-1 Manfred Krause, Main A; (2) Reinhard Wiktor 1-0 Warwick J Nash, Open Morning section. Many thanks to Ulrich Tamm for sending the scores.
02/10/25 1965 GB-Netherlands Netherlands First upload. Six games plus 16 stubs, scores, report.
02/10/25 1990 GBR/IRL Zonals, Blackpool Murray Chandler All 57 games of the British/Irish Zonal tournament held in Blackpool, plus the 28 games of the Women's Zonal held alongside and won by Cathy Forbes.
24/09/25 1947 GB-Netherlands GB First BritBase upload. 19 complete games plus 1 stub (Wood ½-½ vd Berg, rd 2.10).
24/09/25 1937 GB-Netherlands Netherlands 16 games and 4 stubs from the GB v Netherlands match, Amsterdam, 16-17 May 1937. This was the first in what was to become an annual fixture between the two countries, though there had already been one-off matches in 1912 and 1914.
22/09/25 1967 Paignton Women's Int'l & Premier N Gaprindashvili; R Wade & N Patterson 28 games from the women's international plus (new items) 13 games from the Paignton Premier, crosstables and magazine report.
18/09/25 1928 British Championship Fred D Yates 39 of the 66 games played in the 1928 British Championship, played in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales, plus 1 Championship part-game and 23 from other events. Latest: Added two games played by George Koltanowski in the Major Open, kindly submitted by Philip Jurgens: (1) GK 1-0 Littlejohn, rd 6 (the newspaper source was hard to read and included an illegal move but Philip Jurgens and Nikolaas Verhulst have suggested a convincing replacement move after which the score makes good sense); (2) E M Jackson 0-1 GK, rd 7. Many thanks to Philip Jurgens.
14/09/25 1931/32 Hastings Salo Flohr 32 Premier games and 5 part-games of a possible 45, plus 39 games from subsidiary sections, crosstables, etc. Latest: (13.09.1925) Added the game G Weissgerber ½-½ G Koltanowski, Premier Reserves, rd 8, 05/01/1932. Addition (14.09.1925): The game V Buerger 0-1 G Koltanowski, Premier Reserves, rd 6, 02.01.1932, here previously as a part-game, is now a complete score. Many thanks to Andy Ansel for sending the game.
14/09/25 1937/38 Hastings Samuel Reshevsky All 45 games of the Premier, 34 from lower sections, plus crosstables, results and reports. Latest: added the game G Koltanowski ½-½ L Illingworth, Premier Reserves Section 1, rd 4, 31.12.1937. Many thanks to Andy Ansel for the game.
14/09/25 1989 Young England v Polgars Drawn 9-9 First upload, all 18 rapidplay games of a match-tournament between Michael Adams, Stuart Conquest and David Norwood and the three Polgar sisters. Many thanks to Andy Ansel for sending the games.
12/09/25 1929 Winter-Colle Match Drawn 5-5 First uploaded. Six games plus four stubs of a ten-game match between William Winter and Edgar Colle at the Imperial Chess Club in London in January 1929. My thanks to Philip Jurgens for his assistance.
12/09/25 1938 Margate A Alekhine All 45 games of the Premier, full crosstables and results, source references, etc, plus 25+7 games/part-games from other sections. Latest: Added the game Koltanowski ½-½ König, Premier Reserves B, rd 1. Many thanks to Philip Jurgens for sending the score.
12/09/25 1936 Margate Salo Flohr 33 of the 45 games, plus 1 part-game and 34 from other sections. Crosstables and photos. Latest: The score of the game Schelfhout 0-1 Koltanowski, Premier Reserves A, rd 8, previously ended at 39...Rxf5 but Koltanowski's book With The Masters had a further 16 moves. My thanks to Philip Jurgens for submitting the full score.
12/09/25 1934/35 Hastings Thomas, Euwe, Flohr All 45 Premier games plus 28+18 games from other sections, crosstables, photos. Latest: Added the game Prins ½-½ Koltanowski, Premier Reserves, rd 5. Many thanks to Philip Jurgens for sending the game.
12/09/25 1933/34 Hastings Salo Flohr All 45 Premier games (one is a part-game) plus 24 from other sections. Latest: Added the game Cross 0-1 Koltanowski, Premier Reserves, rd 4. Many thanks to Philip Jurgens for sending the game.
11/09/23 1925 Kent CCA Bromley H Matisons 46 games from the 20th Kent Congress, held in Bromley, first posted in 2023, now accompanied by crosstables, results, etc. Many thanks to Philip Jurgens for sending another game, Muller 0-1 Voellmy. Swiss system pairings were used in part for two tournaments. Was this the first time Swiss pairings had been used in the UK?
05/09/25 1968 British Championship Jonathan Penrose All 198 games, plus 108 games from other events. Latest: added the game P Bielby 1-0 W Watkinson from the Five Day First Week section.
31/08/25 1902 Kent Congress Rudolf Loman New item (28 August 2025). 16 games from the First Class section, plus 23 from other sections and exhibition events, crosstables, reports, results and biographical information. Latest: Corrections to round numbers: the games Muller 1-0 Serraillier and Fawcett ½-½ Mortimer, originally shown here as played in round 5, were in fact played in round 4 (the date played is unchanged). My thanks to Ulrich Tamm for drawing my attention to this, and also for deducing the pairing system used.
31/08/25 1927 Scarborough Edgar Colle 33 of the 45 Premier games, plus 2 from lower sections. Crosstables and report. Latest: Added the game Saunders 0-1 Colle (rd 3). Also, the games Yates ½-½ Colle and Bogolyubow ½-½, both rd 9, have had their date changed to Sunday 05.06.1927 as they were played in advance to allow Bogoljubow and Yates to travel to their next tournament (Bad Homburg). My thanks to Nikolaas Verhulst for the game and information.
28/08/25 1907 British Championship H E Atkins 30 games, 5 part-games, 22+1 games from subsidiary events, from the 1907 British Championship held in Crystal Palace, Sydenham, London. Latest: added the games J MacAlister 0-1 B Heastie (Second Class A) and A Lacy-Hulbert 1-0 F Rawlins (Third Class A). Many thanks to Gerard Killoran for contributing them via the English Chess Forum.
25/08/25 1988 Guernsey Open Marinus Kuijf 107 games, with dates and round numbers, plus crosstable (sourced from the Guernsey Chess Club website). Latest: added six more games, all played by Ferry Daamen. These were submitted by Paul Brown, for which many thanks.
25/08/25 1988 World Mixed Challenge Judit Polgar All 45 games of the tournament sponsored by Duncan Lawrie, plus crosstable and report. Latest: the full score of the game S Jackson ½-½ J Bellin, round 6, previously truncated at move 19, is now available. My thanks to Paul Brown for providing the full score.
25/08/25 2025 Lancaster Congress Harry Grieve All 42 games from the Open plus 25 from the Major. Many thanks to Sean Parker for sending the games.
19/08/25 1978 Petrosian / Hort Simuls   Six games from simuls given by Petrosian and Hort after the 1977/78 Hastings Premier, plus photos and a report.
19/08/25 2025 Kingston Congress Jakub Kosakowski 45 games of the All-Play-All event plus 230 games from the Open Swiss, plus crosstables. Latest: added the four blitz play-off games (J T Grave v G Lund; J Kothari v S Verma)
19/08/25 2025 Staffordshire Open Jonathan Blackburn 34 games from the Open and 14 from the Major (U1950).
18/08/25 2025 Mindsports Open Igor Janik, Brandon Clarke 429 games from the 5th Mindsports Open, held in London, plus a crosstable.
11/08/25 2025 British Championship Michael Adams 422 games from the Championship, 4 from the tie-break play-offs, 577 games from the Major Open and 477 games from the two Senior Championships, plus crosstables of these events.
07/08/25 1988 Lloyds Bank Masters Gary Lane, Michael Adams 206 games, plus crosstable. Latest: added the game V Smyslov 1-0 T Ernst, rd 9, which is on Mega 2022 (but listed only as "London") and also in Informator 46, annotated by Smyslov. It did not appear in the bulletin. My thanks to Paul Brown for contributing the score.
04/08/25 1989 Park Hall International Michael Adams All 45 games of the tournament in which Michael Adams recorded his second GM norm. The games have round numbers and dates, references to losses on time, etc, plus a crosstable.
03/08/25 1989 Watson, Farley & Williams Bent Larsen New item (3 August 2025). All 91 games, now with round numbers and dates added.
03/08/25 1989 Haringey Masters Michael Adams New item (3 August 2025). All 81 games, with round numbers and dates added. (n.b. not absolutely sure of all the dates but they are all within one day of being right.) Michael Adams completed his GM qualification by scoring 7/9 in this Scheveningen system event.
02/08/25 1981/82 Hastings Congress Viktor Kupreichik All 91 games from the Premier, plus 16 from other sections. Latest: added three Challengers games played by the Belgian player Daniel Pergericht (1956-2009): (1) DP 1-0 A Byron (rd 1); (2) S Shutler 0-1 DP (rd 6); (3) DP ½-½ S Conquest (rd 10). My thanks to Nikolaas Verhulst for contributing these games and also providing corrections to the Challengers crosstable.
25/07/25 1897 Ladies International Mary Rudge New item (16 July): 43 games, 8 part-games, 15 defaults and 124 stubs from this first women's international tournament, held in London in June/July 1897. Widely publicised at the time, with a first prize of £60 which would be the equivalent of £6,500+ in 2025 money. Photos, biographical details, newspaper reports, etc. Latest: A further three games added, and a fourth game has had a few extra moves added to the end: (1) E Thorold draw G Field (rd 1); (2) H Worrall draw A Gooding (rd 3); (3) F Sterling Berry 1-0 H Sidney (rd 4); (4) a few more moves added to the end of E Thomas 0-1 I Eschwege (rd 6). All the additional scores come from the ChessBase Mega Database 2022. This means that the game entries now total 43 complete games, 8 part-games, 124 stubs, and 15 defaults. My thanks to Brian Denman for drawing this to my attention. EDIT - a correction: the 21-move game score previously given as F Sterling Berry 1-0 H Sidney (rd 4) has been reassigned to the game A Stevenson 0-1 H Sidney (rd 1). Apologies for the mistake and thanks to Brian Denman for drawing my attention to it.
24/07/25 2025 English Championship Michael Adams All the games of the seven-round English Championship, held 18-21 July in Kenilworth, plus the games from the English women's championship won by Elmira Mirzoeva. Latest: added 69 games from the Women's U1700 event.
21/07/25 1925 British Championship Henry E Atkins 56 of the 66 games played in the 1925 British Chess Championship, played in Stratford-upon-Avon, plus 42 from lower sections. Latest: Added 13 games from the 1925 British Boys' (Under-18) Championship, held at Hastings over Easter. The additional games are most those played by (Arthur) Eric Smith, which have been collected by Brian Denman, for which many thanks. I have also added results and crosstables relating to the boys' competition.
21/07/25 1924 British Championship Henry E Atkins All 66 of the 66 games from the 1924 British Championship held in Southport (same venue as the 1905 championships), plus 68 games from subsidiary events. Latest: Added a game from the Boys Under-18 Championship - D Gibbs 0-1 W Pratten (rd 3, Prelim F). I have also added detail to the Boys' Championship text.
18/07/25 Peter C Gibbs File - Peter C Gibbs (1934-2023) was joint British under-18 champion in 1952, went on to play in several British Championships and wrote chess columns in regional newspapers. There are now 370 of his games (including 4 part-games) from 1952 to 2022. Latest: Added 200+ correspondence games kindly supplied by Tim Harding. The running total is now 370 games including four part-games. Many thanks to Tim.
15/07/25 1925/26 Hastings Alekhine, Vidmar 28 of 45 Premier games, 17 stubs/part-games, 9 from lower sections, crosstables. Latest: Added the game P Bolland 1-0 E Jesty, Major rd 3. Many thanks to Gerard Killoran for submitting the game.
10/07/25 2025 Crewe Open Jacob Connor Boswell 132 games from the 2025 Crewe Open, 27-29 June, plus crosstable.
04/07/25 1999 Paignton Premier Ian Thompson 14 games from the September 1999 Paignton Premier, most of which were sent to me back in 1999 when I was BCM editor.
03/07/25 1932 British Championship Sultan Khan 47 of the 66 games, plus 6 part-games. 35 games and part-games from subsidiary sections. Latest: added the game H Mallison 1-0 W Henderson (Second Class). Many thanks to Gerard Killoran for submitting the game via the English Chess Forum.
25/06/25 2025 Nigel Short Simul +23=2-0 All 25 games of a simul given by Nigel Short in Lancaster on 21 June 2025. Many thanks to Sean Parker for forwarding the games.
19/06/25 1984/85 Hastings Evgeny Sveshnikov All 91 games from the Premier, now with dates, plus 12 from other sections. Details of the Challengers and other sections have proved very hard to find. Does anyone have the tournament bulletin?
17/06/25 1977/78 Hastings R Dzindzhihasvili All 105 Premier games, plus 42 games from the Challengers, 19 from other sections, crosstables, full results of the general congress. Latest: added two more games from the Challengers, sourced from BrasilBase: (1) C Baker 1-0 R Schlenker (rd 1); (2) T Pioch 0-1 R Gruchacz (rd 8).
17/06/25 1979/80 Hastings Ulf Andersson, John Nunn New item. 120 games from the Premier, plus 33+2+33 games/part-games/stubs from the Challengers, and one game from a lower section. Full crosstables of the Premier and Challengers plus results from other sections. Latest: Added the game R Schlenker 0-1 W Watson (Challengers, rd 1). Many thanks to Ulrich Tamm for the game.
16/06/25 Bernard Cafferty Collection - 2,044 games by English FM Bernard Cafferty (born 1934), including 48 stubs, byes & default wins. Latest: added one new score, L Lucena ½-½ B Cafferty, Hastings Challengers 1979/80, rd 7, plus six stubs from the same event.
13/06/25 1971/72 Hastings Karpov, Korchnoi New item. 120 games from the Premier, plus 37+4 games/part-games from the Challengers and 3 games from sections, plus crosstables, reports, etc. Latest: added two more games: (1) R Runau 1-0 Z Mestrovic (Challengers, rd 6); (2) M Gielow 1-0 S Reuben (Challengers Reserves). Many thanks to Ulrich Tamm.
11/06/25 Wilfred Henry Pratten - 574 games (including 5 stubs and 3 part-games) played by strong Hampshire amateur player Wilfred Henry Pratten (1908-1985). This file was kindly made available to me by Arthur Brameld who collaborated with Roger Paige in collecting them. I am grateful to both Roger and Arthur. Latest: added the game HC Lewis 0-1 WH Pratten, British Boys Championship Final, rd 1, 23.04.1925.
06/06/25 1969/70 Hastings Lajos Portisch New item. All 45 games, many with annotations, full crosstables of the premier and Challengers, reports, results, plus 36+4 games & part-games from other sections. Latest: Two further Challengers games added: (1) G Abrahams 0-1 O Kinnmark (rd 2); (2) P Hoogendoorn 0-1 R Runau (rd 3). Many thanks to Ulrich Tamm for sending me the game scores. Note that I have also amended the score of M Radojcic 0-1 M Franklin to show the correct final move (24...Rxh2+, not 24...Rxg2).
03/06/25 1967 Northern Open, Whitby Dolfi Drimer New item. 31 games, 5 part-games, 2 games from lower sections, reports and crosstable. My thanks to Stephen Wright for sending a scan of the tournament programme which has helped in the creation of a full crosstable. Latest: a further eight complete scores of Colin Aykroyd's games added, kindly submitted by Stephen Wright. Many thanks to Stephen, who is incidentally responsible for the excellent BCBASE, a collection of games played by players from British Columbia; BritBase has previously sourced games from it, for example those played by Nathan Divinsky in the 1966 Bognor Regis tournament.
02/06/25 1968 Northern Open, Whitby Karlheinz Bachmann 42 games, 3 part-games and 1 simul game from this 11-round event held immediately before the British Championship. Latest: added the part-game J Ripley 1-0 L de Veauce (rd 9) plus a game from a simul given by Ritson Morry. The (nearly) complete crosstable is also new.
01/06/25 1967 Bognor Regis International Kurajica, Drimer & Padevski 36 games and 5 part-games from the 15th Churchill Memorial, 10 games from subsidiary sections plus a complete crosstable of results. Latest: Added the game D Dobson [Norman] 0-1 O Jakobsen (rd 1), sent by Ulrich Tamm, for which many thanks.
01/06/25 2025 Cambridge International Michael Adams, Brandon Clarke New item. 462 games plus crosstable.
31/05/25 1904 British Championship W E Napier

57 of the 66 games, with 9 stubs, plus 29 games from subsidiary events, and the play-off games between Napier and Atkins played in early 1905. Latest: added the game J Manlove 0-1 G Richmond (First Class C, rd 6). Many thanks to Brian Denman for sending the game.
29/05/25 1939 BCF Bournemouth Max Euwe All 66 games of the non-championship tournament held as part of the BCF Congress, won by ex-world champion Max Euwe. Also, five games from the women's championship and 30 from other sections. Latest: Added the game Elaine Saunders 1-0 A Poupard (rd 5, Women's Championship), plus photos and reports from CHESS.
29/05/25 1967/68 Hastings Congress Gheorghiu, Hort, Stein, Suetin All 45 games from the 1967/68 Hastings Premier, plus 36 from the Challengers and 5 from lower sections. Latest: added five games played by the Canadian player Colin Aykroyd in the Challengers: (1) ½-½ v Nicolai, rd 2; (2) 0-1 v Kanonenberg, rd 3; (3) ½-½ v Horton, rd 4; (4) 1-0 v Abtahi, rd 6; (5) ½-½ v Clements, rd 9. Many thanks to Stephen Wright for supplying the scores.
25/05/25 Varsity Matches - A recently published title from Moravian Chess - Varsity Chess Battles, Oxford vs Cambridge 1873-1914 by Vlastimil Fiala - has enabled me to add a further 11 game scores to the collection from the annual Oxford University vs Cambridge University matches.
14/05/25 1969 Bognor Regis David Pritchard 22 games, 2 part-games and a complete crosstable of the 17th (and last) Bognor Regis tournament. Latest: added the game T Fox 0-1 J Kostro (rd 6). Many thanks to Ulrich Tamm for submitting the score.
08/04/25 1966 British Championship Jonathan Penrose 165 games of the British Championship proper, plus 183 games from subsidiary events. Latest: Now with all Brian Denman's games from the Under-21 Championship. Various other corrections applied.
07/04/25 1959/60 Hastings Svetozar Gligoric 45 Premier games, 12 games from lower sections, crosstables, results, plus an interesting newspaper article on Hastings by Michael Frayn. Latest: added the game E Tranmer 1-0 R Rushbrook, Premier Reserves Afternoon, rd 6. Many thanks to Ulrich Tamm for supplying the score.
31/03/25 1979 British Championship Robert Bellin All 264 games plus 3 games from other sections. Latest: added the game C Fegan 0-1 K Arkell, Under-21 Championship.
27/03/25 1968/69 Hastings Vassily Smyslov All 66 games from the Premier plus (new as of November 2023) 34 games and 2 part-games from the Challengers, 9 from a lower section, crosstables and results. Latest: added 8 games played by Victor J A Russ in the Challengers Reserves section.
27/03/25 1899 Craigside Llandudno Amos Burn 25 games plus one stub, one game from the subsidiary event and one cosultation games, crosstables, report. (New item 25 March 2025). Latest: Added the game G Schott 1-0 C Dawbarn, contributed by Gerard Killoran, for which many thanks.
26/03/25 2025 Wood Green Invitational Dimitris Alexakis All 45 games pf the Wood Green Invitational, held in Stafford from 5-9 March. Dimitris Alexakis (GRE) achieved a GM norm.
26/03/25 2025 Menchik Memorial Andreea Navrotescu All 45 games of the 10th Menchik Memorial, held 20-24 March 2025 in London. Andreea Navrotescu (FRA) achieved her 2nd IM norm.
23/03/25 1970/71 Hastings Lajos Portisch 45 Premier games, 34 Challengers games, 3 from lower sections, crosstables, results, etc. Latest: added the game P Habershon ½-½ J C Kleinbloesem (Main A, rd 4). Many thanks to Ulrich Tamm for sending the game.
20/03/25 1990 Paignton Congress Keith Arkell New item (20 March 2025): 19 games from the Premier plus 3 from other sections. Source of games, mainly Westward Ho (WECU Newsletter), May 1991, available online at the Hampshire Chess History website. Many thanks to Graham Stuart for digitising and publishing the newsletter.
03/03/25 1927/28 Hastings Saviely Tartakower 25 (out of 45) Premier games, 27 games from other sections (including five Vera Menchik games), crosstables, results and some biographical items. Latest: added the game R Lean 1-0 J Rivkine (Major A, rd 1). Many thanks to Brian Denman for sending the game.
03/03/25 2024 Hampshire Championship Petr Marusenko 77 games from the Open, plus crosstables, from this five-round weekend congress played in Fareham. My thanks to Graham Stuart for sending the games and information. NOTE: all the games from previous Hampshire Championships back to 2007 are now available: just follow the links in the title line below the 2024 game viewer and on all subsequent pages. (There were no tournaments held in 2020 and 2021). Latest: added 64 games from the 2024 Hampshire Major. Many thanks to Graham Stuart.
25/02/25 2025 Blackpool Open Siva Mahadevan 59 games from the Blackpool (Conference) Open.
25/02/25 2025 Isle of Wight International Four-way tie 528 games from the nine-round international held in Ryde, Isle of Wight.
21/02/25 1938 British Championship C Hugh O'D Alexander 38 games, 2 part-games from the Championship, plus 41+8 games from other sections. Latest: added the game F Parr ½-½ H Golombek (Championship, rd 11). Many thanks to Gerard Killoran for contributing the game via the English Chess Forum.
21/02/25 1935 British Championship William Winter 34+1 games/part-game of the 66 played in the Championship. Also, 31+2 games from other sections including the Major Open won by Reshevsky. Latest: added the game Adrián García Conde 0-1 S Reshevsky (Major Open, rd 4), contributed by Gerard Killoran via the English Chess Forum, for which many thanks.
21/02/25 Sultan Khan - 211 games plus 30 stubs/part-games. Latest: added a game lost by Sultan Khan in a simul vs Huxley St John-Brook, 14 October 1931.
21/02/25 1933 British Championship Sultan Khan 40 of the 66 games, plus 3 part-games, from the 1933 British Championship and 15+1 games/part-games from other sections. Crosstables included, plus those of the General Congress, which was held the previous month alongside the Team Tournament in Folkestone. Latest: Added two games from the Championship: (1) E Colman 0-1 A R Cross (rd 1); (2) H Golombek 1-0 H Cole (rd 8). Many thanks to Gerard Killoran for submitting the game via the English Chess Forum.
20/02/25 1931 British Championship Fred Yates 30 complete championship games, plus 3 part-games, plus 29 games from other sections. Latest: added two games: (1) H Golombek 1-0 E Znosko-Borovsky, Major Open, rd 3; (2) S Crockett 1-0 W Ritson Morry, Major Open Reserves, rd 11. Also, the score of J Craddock 1-0 A Watson, First Class A, has been amended definitively. Contributed by Gerard Killoran via the English Chess Forum for which many thanks.
20/02/25 1929 British Championship Sultan Khan 36 games out of 66, plus 1 part-game, and 16 games from other sections. Latest: added the game G Abrahams 0-1 J Morrison, Championship, rd 8. Contributed by Gerard Killoran via the English Chess Forum for which many thanks.
20/02/25 2024 British Championship Gawain Jones 379 games from the Championship proper plus four tie-break games, 498 from the Major Open, 143 from the Over-50 Championship and 183 from the Over-65 Championship. Plus crosstables.
13/02/25 2025 Shropshire Congress S Okhai, T Kett 64 games from the Shropshire Open, plus 30 from other sections. My thanks to Rudy van Kemenade for sending the games.
11/02/25 1882 Varsity Oxford-Cambridge Cambridge University Added the game E Kinder 0-1 F P Carr (rd 1, bd 1). Many thanks to Jason Radley for drawing my attention to it.
10/02/25 2023 Hampshire Championship Iwan Cave, etc 69 games from the Open plus 82 from the Major, plus crosstables, from this six-round weekend congress played in Fareham. My thanks to Graham Stuart for sending the games and information.
10/02/25 2024 Scarborough Congress Koby Kalavannan 460 games from Open, Major and Intermediate sections of the Scarborough Congress, held 25-27 October. Latest: a further 178 games added, from the Foundation section. Many thanks to Sean Parker for submitting the games.
08/02/25 1970 British Championship Bob Wade All 179 games, plus 43 from subsidiary events. Latest: added two games from the U21 Championship: (1) D LeMoir 1-0 G Bennett (rd 10); (2) I Sinclair ½-½ D Lemoir (rd 11). Many thanks to David LeMoir for submitting the games.
07/02/25 2025 Cheadle Open Keith Arkell 69 games from the 1st Cheadle FIDE Open.
05/02/25 1995/96 Hastings Conquest, Khalifman, B Lalic All 45 Premier games, plus 356 from the Challengers and 1 from a lower section. The file now includes a crosstable for the Challengers, as a result of which it has been possible to apply amendments to the games and date them accurately. I am grateful for help with this (and other Hastings tournaments of the 1990s) from Andy Ansel, Steve Giddins, Brian Denman, Ian Thompson and Roger de Coverly.
28/01/25 1995 Hastings Centenary Masters Suat Atalik 387 games (i.e. all bar a handful of the games played), plus a crosstable. These games have been widely available for some years, though with errors which I have attempted to eradicate. Latest: the crosstable is now complete and checked against the one that appears in the tournament bulletin. Some corrections made to games, plus the addition of 12 games from lower sections.
23/01/25 1991/92 Hastings Evgeny Bareev All 56 Premier games, 129 Challengers games (with dates and round numbers), 25 games from other sections and full Premier and Challengers crosstables. Colin Crouch recorded a GM norm with a round to spare in the Challengers and Matthew Sadler also made a GM norm. Both qualified for the 1992/93 Premier. I have included Colin Crouch's annotation of his win vs Neverov in the download. Many thanks to Steve Giddins for supplying images from the bulletin. Latest: added the game N Foster 0-1 J van Mil, Challengers rd 8.
21/01/25 1992 Oakham Young Masters Alexei Shirov All 234 games (one is a stub) from what was considered at the time to be the strongest 'junior' (under-22) tournament ever. It still looks very impressive today, with Shirov, Kramnik, Adams and many other contemporary GMs in the line-up. The games have long since been in the public domain but I've applied some corrections and found precise dates for the games. Full crosstable.
16/01/25 1989/90 Hastings Sergey Dolmatov All 56 games of the Premier are accompanied by 97 games from the Challengers, with round numbers and dates and a full crosstable. Thanks to Steve Giddins for supplying scans of the bulletin and scores of his own games in the Challengers. Also, all 54 games of the Hastings Masters, a Scheveningen-format tournament held immediately following the congress. Latest: added 21 games played by Erkki Pesonen in lower sections. Many thanks to Brian Denman.
15/01/25 1988/89 Hastings Nigel Short All 51 games from the Premier, plus 111 games from the Challengers, won in sensational fashion by 12-year-old Judit Polgar. The Challengers crosstable is now complete and this has enabled a few more games to be added to the collection for this year.
11/01/25 1929 Kent Easter Congress, Ramsgate (Capablanca took part) The main event of the annual Kent Easter Congress was a match-tournament between a British team and an overseas team that included Capablanca, Rubinstein, Menchik, etc. All 49 games of the match-tournament plus 14 from other events, crosstables, results and reports. Latest: added the game Rellstab 1-0 Gibaud, Premier A, rd 2. Many thanks to Ulrich Tamm for contributing the game.
10/01/25 2024/25 Caplin Hastings Congress Haowen Xue All 473 games from the Masters plus 99 games from the Weekend Open, crosstables.
09/01/25 1982/83 Hastings Congress Rafael Vaganian 91 games from the Premier, 3 from the Challengers, plus crosstables. Many thanks to Steve Giddins for supplying and transcribing the Challengers crosstable.
08/01/25 2002/03 Hastings Congress Peter Heine Nielsen All 45 Premier games plus 39 from the Challengers and 23 from other sections, plus crosstables, results and bulletin.
07/01/25 1924 West of England Major Open Max Euwe All 45 games plus 12 from other sections, crosstables, results, photo. Latest: Added the game E W Poynton 1-0 G C Brown, First Class B. Many thanks to Richard James for contributing the game via the English Chess Forum.
07/01/25 1956 British Championship C Hugh O'D Alexander 173 of the 176 Championship games played, plus 2 part-games, 1 stub and 16 games from lower sections, results from all the events. Latest: Added complete scores of two of the missing Championship games: (1) M F Collins 0-1 W Ritson Morry (rd 1); (2) M F Collins 0-1 B H Wood (rd 10). I am very grateful to Malcolm Collins, Emeritus Professor of Physics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, for responding to my email enquiry and providing these two scores. A happy new year to you, sir!
07/01/25 1955 Varsity Match Oxford-Cambridge Cambridge University Two games, one part-game and one stub. Latest: added the game M F Collins 1-0 H G Mutkin (Bd 4), very kindly supplied by Malcolm Collins, Emeritus Professor of Physics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.
06/01/25 1985/86 Hastings Congress Margeir Petursson All 91 Premier games plus 12 from the Challengers and crosstables. Many thanks to Steve Giddins for supplying and transcribing the Challengers crosstable.
29/12/24 Civil Service Championships 1991-2012 - 22 files of games played in the Civil Service Championship between 1991 and 2012 have been uploaded today. This was a five-round Swiss held annually in Yorkshire during that period. To save readers having to download each file individually, here is a single PGN download of all 927 games played. I am grateful to Kevin Thurlow for making these games available.
27/12/24 2024 Guernsey Open Arita Strade,
Katarzyna Toma		 105 games from the Open, plus 98 from the Challengers, sent by Arthur Brameld for which many thanks. This was the 48th in the series of this popular congress and the first to have female winners, with Guernsey-registered Arita Strade also being the first home winner. Three of the first four finishers were women, despite being heavily outrated by the top scoring male player, GM Keith Arkell.
22/12/24 1961 Glorney Cup England Seven games from the junior team tournament, held in Glasgow in July 1961.
19/12/24 1990 & 1991 Isle of Man Opens Colin Crouch (both tournaments) Nine games & one part-game from the 1st Isle of Man Open in 1990, plus three games from the 1990 U160 section. Four games from the 2nd (October 1991) Isle of Man Open. Latest: two games added from the 1991 Isle of Man Open, which was won by the late Colin Crouch with 6½/7 ahead of Julian Hodgson on 5 (Crouch also won the tournament in 1990). Many thanks to Brian Denman for sending the additional games.
19/12/24 1932 Cambridge Premier Sultan Khan 28 games were played in this eight-player all-play-all, of which 2 are part-games and 4 are stubs, plus 6 games and 1 part-game from other sections. Latest: added three part-games from the Major sections. Updated to include crosstables of all events and the tournament report from BCM. (18 Dec) Added two more games from Major A, submitted by Gerald Hartmann, for which many thanks: (1) G Koltanowski 0-1 H Golombek, rd 2; (2) G Koltanowski 1-0 A R Cross (rd 7, with some uncertainties in the score). I have also found the full score for A Mackenzie 0-1 G Koltanowski (rd 7) and added round numbers and dates for all games. EDIT: Ulrich Tamm has supplied the full score for G Koltanowski 1-0 J O'Hanlon (Major A, rd 3). Many thanks, Ulrich.
13/12/24 Games of David Mabbs - 302 games (including 5 stubs) played by David Mabbs from 1958 until the present. Most of them have been input by me from David's post-1964 scorebooks. Note: it is far from complete. David tells me that, after his 1964 retirement from chess, he sent his scorebooks and scoresheets to BH Wood. It's not known what became of these scores subsequently. One has to suspect that they have long disappeared, but if anyone knows what happened to them please get in touch with me. Latest: added the game D Mabbs 1-0 M Broido, Middlesex Under-18 Championship 1957.
12/12/24 1960 British Championship Jonathan Penrose All 198 Championship games, plus 18 games and 2 part-games from other sections. Latest: added the game V Knox 1-0 K McAlpine, British U15, rd 3.
08/12/24 Junior Chess   The magazine Junior Chess was published between 1961 and about 1966 and I'm in the process of uploading issues of it in PDF format, prompted and helped by Simon Love, who is the son of one of the co-editors, John F Love (the other co-editor being John Hodgkins). The PDFs are being added to the BritBase documents page. Latest: issue numbers 4-8, 18, 21 and 27-29 now available.
03/12/24 1927 Women's World Championship & BCF Congress Vera Menchik 23 games (+ 1 part-game) from the July 1927 Women's World Championship and the British Chess Federation (BCF) General Congress which ran alongside the inaugural Olympiad. Latest: Added two games, both from First Class C: (1) G Wright 1-0 AP Lacy-Hulbert (rd 6); (2) A Lacy-Hulbert 1-0 Mary Mills Houlding. Many thanks to Gerard Killoran for contributing them via the English Chess Forum.
03/12/24 1964 British Championship Michael Haygarth 49 complete Championship games and 5 part-games, plus 49 games from subsidiary events. Crosstables and results from the BCF Congress, held that year in Whitby. Latest: added the five games that Victor John Anthony Russ played in winning the Five-Day Week 1 tournament (with 4½/5) vs. G Wood, TA Blacker, HE Gemmell, RJ de Vrij and BB Partridge. My thanks to Steve Russ for the loan of the scorebooks.
27/11/24 Steve Berry Collection - 400 games played by strong English amateur Steve Berry (1951-2019). Latest: Added the game S Berry 1-0 J Ripley, Staffs Open 1974; a 13-move Grand Prix Attack game.
25/11/24 1990 British Championship Jim Plaskett 300 games of a possible 407, plus 11 from the Major Open and two from other sections. Latest: added the game Luke McShane 1-0 L Rackham from the Under-9 Championship. My thanks to Brian Denman for contributing the game.
14/11/24 1908 Oxford Univ v Pennsylvania Univ Pennsylvania University New item. Six (of a possible 18) games from a six-round match between the universities of Oxford and Pennsylvania, played in Oxford. The US university won by 11½-6½, mainly due to a Fischeresque 6/6 score from Norman 'Shady Side' Whitaker.
07/11/24 1951 Britain v Yugoslavia Yugoslavia First upload. 9 games plus 4 part-games. Note that the first 12 moves of Barden-Ivkov (rd 2.9) are a reconstruction. My thanks to Vladica Andrejic of perpetualcheck.com for providing a complete score of the Milic-Morry game.
07/11/24 1951 England v Scotland England New item. Two games and one part-game from the match played on 15 September 1951 at the RAC, London. England won 6-2.
06/11/24 1951 British Championship Ernst Klein 58 of a possible 165 games, plus 20 part-games and 10 games from other sections including the 1951 British Boys Championship played in Hastings at Easter. Crosstables and results. Latest: Added the part-game PS Milner-Barry 1-0 G Abrahams, rd 6. Also, the game Rev. H Peach 1-0 Jim Phelan from the Major Open. (Link to article by Edward Winter about Jim Phelan - is this the first score of a game played by the Irish writer, political activist and tramp to be found?)
31/10/24 1973/74 Hastings Congress Kuzmin, Szabo, Tal, Timman All 120 games of the Premier, now with dates, plus 57 from other sections; crosstables and results. Latest: Added three part-games from the Challengers: (1) S Sursock ½-½ J Horner; (2) U Gass 0-1 GH Bennett; (3) PJ Waters 0-1 U Gass. Many thanks to Ulrich Tamm.
25/10/24 1974 Robert Silk & Paignton Premier John Nunn / Nigel Povah All 28 of the games played in the Robert Silk tournament played alongside the annual Paignton Congress. 18 games from the Paignton Premier, plus 7 from Paignton Challengers A. Crosstables of the two main events, plus results from other sections. Latest: many thanks to Andy Ansel for supplying all the scores of the Robert Silk tournament (previously only ten of the games had been available).
25/10/24 Games of IM Paul Littlewood   1,729 game entries for IM and 1981 British Champion Paul Littlewood, from his first competition games in the 1960s right through to 2024. Many thanks to Paul Littlewood, who input a huge number of games himself and kindly made the whole file available for publication on BritBase. I have also added a record of his tournament career, up to 1979. Latest: added all nine of the games Paul played in the 1978 Robert Silk International and all seven of the games he played in the 1974 Robert Silk event. Many thanks to Andy Ansel for sending the games.
24/10/24 1978 Robert Silk International Jon Speelman New item: all 45 games played in the July 1978 Robert Silk tournament, played in Bishopsgate, London, plus a crosstable. My thanks to Andy Ansel for supplying all 45 games of this event (I had only been able to trace seven of them myself).
23/10/24 1974 London CC Invitation Simon Webb New item. 18 games from a five-round weekend Swiss with a very strong invited field, held at the Mary Ward Centre in London.
21/10/24 1971 Oxford International George Botterill Nine games and five part-games from a nine-round Swiss held in Oxford in July 1971 won by Botterill ahead of three continental IMs. Alongside it were a women's international (no games available) and a seven-round Swiss (14 games including seven of my own games). Latest: added the full score of V Ciocaltea 1-0 D Gliksman (which had previously been an incomplete game of 36 moves). Many thanks to Florin Dan for sending the score.
19/10/24 1985 British Championship Jon Speelman All 418 games (including a few stubs and bye games), plus 19 games from other sections. Latest: three games added from lower sections: (1) J Boersma 1-0 M Hennigan (Major Open); (2) A Watts 0-1 N Jakubovics (Five-Day Wk1); (3) C McGregor 0-1 G A M Boswell (Soanes a.p.a.). Also, A Keehner 1-0 S Cullip corrected to show it was played in the Under-11 (not the Under-9) Championship.
12/10/24 1976 British Championship Jonathan Mestel All 198 Championship games, plus 22 games from other sections, crosstables, results. Latest: added the game DM Andrew 1-0 G Szaszvari (Major Open). Contributed by Gerard Killoran via the English Chess Forum, 11 October 2024, for which many thanks.
12/10/24 1924/25 Hastings G Maroczy, S Tartakower All 59 Premier games plus 6 from lower sections. Latest: added the game WE Leffler 0-1 W Stevens, 2nd Class Section 1. Contributed by Gerard Killoran via the English Chess Forum, 11 October 2024, for which many thanks.
12/10/24 1965 Northern Open, Whitby B Brinck Claussen 38 games (including five part-games and 1 stub) from this 11-round Swiss played July/August. Latest: added five games played by Victor Russ, from his scorebook kindly lent by Steve Russ. For some reason Russ did not enter his 2nd week games into his scorebook.
10/10/24 1948 British Championship Reginald J Broadbent 27 of the 66 games and 13 part-games of the 1948 British Championship, held at Bishopsgate, London, plus 41 games from other sections. This was the last British Championship to be held on an all-play-all basis. Latest: added all 11 games which Victor J A Russ played to win the Major Open B section. My thanks to Steve Russ for the loan of the scorebooks.
10/10/24 1957 British Championship Dr. Stefan Fazekas 65+3 games/part-games of a possible 176 Championship games, plus 14 from other sections. Latest: added 9 games played by Victor Russ in Major Open A. Many thanks to Steve Russ for loaning me Victor Russ's scorebooks.
09/10/24 1949 British Championship Harry Golombek 68 complete games of a possible 176, plus 43 part-games and 16 from other sections. This was the first British Championship to be held on a Swiss system basis, with 32 selected players. Latest: added all the missing scores bar one of Victor Russ's games (his rd 2 game vs Riley is still a part-game). I am in the process of digitising Victor Russ's games, having been lent his collection of scorebooks by his son Steve Russ, to whom many thanks. Running total now 68 games/43 part-games from a possible 176 Championship games, plus 14 games and 2 part-games from lower sections.
08/10/24 1965 British Championship Peter N Lee All 184 games from the Championship proper, plus results and crosstables and 23 games from other sections. Latest: Added nine games played by Gillian A Moore in the Women's Championship. Games from Roger Paige's book Hampshire Chess Games 1950-1970, sent by Graham Stuart. Many thanks to both Roger and Graham.
29/09/24 Ronnie Ives and the Yorkshire Evening Post chess column A collection of 80 games played by Yorkshire chess player Ronnie Ives plus scans of all his Yorkshire Evening Post columns from 1958 to 1964. This invaluable historical material has been scanned, dated and digitised by me from scrapbooks kindly loaned by the Ives family and material provided by Wakefield Library, via Steve Mann. Latest: the final four missing Yorkshire Evening Post columns written by Ronnie Ives, for 14 June 1962, 23 August 1962, 15 November 1962 and 3 October 1963, have now been found by Steve Mann at Wakefield Library and added to the collection. Many thanks to Steve for sending them and the staff of the Wakefeld Library. And, of course, thanks to Ingrid Ives and family for making this collection possible in the first place.
25/09/24 1954 Paignton B H Wood Two Premier games, plus one from the Rowena Bruce v Fenny Heemskerk match and two others from other sections. Crosstable, results and reports. Latest: added the game E.D.Fawcett 1-0 S.T.Thomas (Major A).
25/09/24 1954 Bognor, Stevenson Memorial Barden, O'Kelly 6 games plus 1 from a lower section, and a crosstable. Latest: added the game B.H.Wood 0-1 J.Penrose (rd 8).
19/09/24 4NCL, 1996/97 Midland Monarchs First uploaded here as a zipped PGN file in 1999, this file of games from the 4NCL's 4th season (the last in which it consisted of a single division) has been updated and standardised, with a number of corrections made. Contains 865 game entries including 3 stubs & 15 defaults. I've also included a crosstable of this 12-round 18-team event.
17/09/24 4NCL 1995/96 Slough 278 games and 2 part-games from the third season of the 4NCL (British Team League), plus stubs for all the remaining games. Latest: extra games added, from rd 1: C.Baker 1-0 R.Phillips, C.Cobb 1-0 J.Rudd, J.Howell 1-0 S.Knott, C.Storey 1-0 A.Summerscale and I think the game B.Cafferty 1-0 R.Haydon had also been missed off the last upload. Includes a few corrections and updates made to header info.
15/09/24 1958/59 Hastings Wolfgang Uhlmann 15 of the 45 Premier games (plus 6 part-games) are available from this curiously underreported Hastings Congress, plus 16 games from subsidiary events. Latest: One of the missing 1958/59 Hastings Premier games - L.Portisch 1-0 R.Wade (rd 8) - has been found by 'Tabanus' (Chessgames.com), to whom many thanks.
14/09/24 1983 British Championship Jonathan Mestel All 319 games, plus 35 games from subsidiary sections. Latest: added the game H.Milligan 1-0 A.Condie (Women's Championship, rd 6).
11/09/24 1951 North of Thames vs South of Thames Match North of Thames Six games plus a link to a July 1951 CHESS magazine article (PDF) which has the results of all 500 boards of this match played on 16 June 1951 at Central Hall, Westminster.
09/09/24 1961/62 Hastings Mikhail Botvinnik All 45 Premier, several with extensive annotations by Botvinnik, Flohr, Barden & Littlewood, plus 22 from other sections. Crosstables, results, photos, reports and news cuttings of the (in)famous Lisa Lane furore. Latest: what was a part-game from the Challengers, D.Velimirovic 1-0 H.Ek (rd 6) is now a complete score, thanks to Ulrich Tamm.
06/09/24 1941 Army v Navy & British Forces v Allied Forces Army; British Forces Five games from the Army v Navy match, October 1941, plus five from the British Forces v Allied Forces match, November 1941, including a Tartakower win vs Golombek. Latest: added three games from the British vs Allies match. Many thanks to Dominique Thimognier for help with this.
04/09/24 2024 Menchik Memorial, London Andreea Navrotescu All 45 games plus crosstable. Andreea Navrotescu (FRA) won with a 100% score - 9/9.
03/09/24 1977 British Championship George Botterill All 220 games plus 24 from other sections. Latest: Added the game V.Craven 0-1 J.Garwell/Richmond (Women's Ch, rd 7). Many thanks to Andy Ansel for sending the game.
31/08/24 2024 Lancaster Open J Boswell, J Arnott 56 games from the August 2024 2nd Lancaster Open, plus 52 from the Major. Many thanks to Sean parker for sending the games.
29/08/24 1989 British Championship Michael Adams 315 games from a possible 429, of the 78-player British Championship held in Plymouth, plus crosstable. Latest: Added five games played by Steve Giddins, from rounds 3, 5, 6, 7 and 9. Also, a move order adjustment made to S.Giddins ½-½ N.McDonald (rd 1). Many thanks to Steve Giddins.
28/08/24 1951 Paignton Harry Golombek 21 games (of 28 played), from the eight-player all-play-all won by Harry Golombek ahead of Max Euwe. Latest: seven games added.
27/08/24 2024 Mindsports Open Four-way tie 250 games from Mindsports Open in July, plus 43 games from the Rapidplay and 133 games from the Blitz held alongside.
26/08/24 1978 British Championship Jonathan Speelman All 238 games, plus 12 from other sections, crosstable, results. Latest: added the game M.Sames 0-1 D.Edmonds (Under-14), contributed by Andy Ansel, for which many thanks.
26/08/24 1977 Lloyds Bank Masters Miguel Quinteros 193 games from the inaugural Lloyds Bank Masters and one from the subsidiary event. Latest: added the (substantially complete) game N.Povah ½-½ C.Baker (rd 4). Many thanks to Andy Ansel.
25/08/24 1972/73 Hastings Bent Larsen All 120 Premier games, plus 40 from lower sections, crosstables, results, etc. Latest: Added six games from lower sections: (1) B.Johnson 0-1 E.Kong (Main A); (2) R.Evans 0-1 W.Gergs (Main B); (3) W.Grube 0-1 D.Murphy (Main B); (4) W.Gergs 0-1 L.Trangmar (Main C); (5) H.Schaefer 1-0 D.Pardoe (Main C); (6) D.Fairbank 1-0 J.Wiseman (Main E). Many thanks to Ulrich Tamm for submitting the games.
24/08/24 Games of John G Nicholson - 100 games played by FIDE Master John G Nicholson which he has personally selected and sent to me for publication on BritBase. Many thanks to John for sharing these games with us. Latest: John has sent me a further 13 games from the period 1970-1973, making a round 100. Many thanks to John.
18/08/24 2024 Kingston Invitational (four-way tie) 188 games from this nine-swiss event held in Kingston-upon-Thames. Games and results from chess-results dot com.
11/08/24 1997 British Championship M Adams, M Sadler 247 games of the Championship, plus six play-off games, 171 from the Major Open/U18 Championship and 6 games from other sections. Latest: Added 150+ games from the Major Open/Under-18 Championship. Many thanks to Ian Thompson for supplying the scores, plus a complete crosstable for the section. EDIT: two of the Major Open games, Moskovic-Noyce (rd 10) & Brookes-Taylor (rd 11), have had score corrections applied. My thanks to Brian Denman.
11/08/24 1929 Scarborough Premier H Saunders, S Tartakower All 28 games from the May 1929 Scarborough Premier, plus 2 games from a lower section. Crosstables, round-by-round details and a photo. Latest: Score amendments applied to two games: (1) G.Thomas ½-½ H.Saunders (rd 1); (2) H.Saunders 1-0 J.Jackson (rd 2). My thanks to Andy Ansel for drawing my attention to these.
07/08/24 1958 Bognor Regis, Stevenson Memorial Ivkov, Karaklajic, Wade 20 games, 9 part-games, plus 9 games from subsidiary sections, crosstable (incomplete), results, photo. Latest: added the part-game A.Hall ½-½ G.F.Harris (rd 8), found in the book Play The Evans Gambit by Harding & Cafferty (Cadogan 1997), p38, though the book misidentified Black as R.A.Harris.
05/08/24 1969 Scottish Junior International R M McKay New item. All 45 games from this ten-player all-play-all held in Glasgow in June 1969. Games input by Alan McGowan and Alistair Maxwell and posted at the Chess Scotland games archive page. Many thanks to Alan and Alistair.
05/08/24 1969 Glorney Cup England Six games from this junior team event are downloadable from here. I will put up a page of results at some point.
04/08/24 1974/75 Hastings Vlastimil Hort 120 games from the 1974/75 Hastings. Also 33 games from the Challengers and 10 from lower sections, crosstables, etc. Latest: Added another 12 games from the Brian Denman collection, including 7 more of Geoff James's Challengers. Running totals now 120 Premier, 33 Challengers, 10 from other sections. Many thanks to Brian Denman. Note that I have also adjusted the dates of Challengers games to reflect the fact that there was a rest day on 1 January 1975 (between the 4th and 5th rounds).
03/08/24 1978 Aaronson Masters Aldo Haik, Michael Franklin 155 games from this very strong international, with complete crosstable and report. Latest: Added the game B.Cafferty ½-½ N.Povah, Aaronson Masters (rd 3, 24.03.1978), kindly forwarded by Andy Ansel, for which many thanks.
03/08/24 1968 Bognor Regis International Z Doda 38 games plus 3 part-games, crosstable and reports. Latest: The complete score of the game N.Littlewood 0-1 P.Griffiths (rd 7) is now available (previously 30 moves, now all 42 moves). Many thanks to Gerard Killoran for submitting the score via the English Chess Forum. Also, there is a thread about this event on the English Chess Forum which readers might find of interest.
24/07/24 Gibraltar page - Index to PGNs, results and crosstables of the Gibraltar International Chess Festival from 2003 to 2020, plus the 2021 FIDE Grand Prix and 2022 Battle of the Sexes events. Latest: the 2003 Gibraltar Amateurs tournament download now has all 65 games. Many thanks to Ian Thompson for supplying the missing games.
24/07/24 1993 Lloyds Bank Masters Jon Speelman 530 games, with dates, plus a complete crosstable and details from the bulletin. Latest: the game score of Van der Sterren 0-1 Tkachiev, rd 8, has been replaced with a better attested version found in CHESS Magazine.
22/07/24 1990/91 Hastings Congress Evgeny Bareev All 56 games of the premier, now with 102+2 games/part-games from the Challengers and 24 games from other sections. My thanks to Ian Thompson for sending me the tournament bulletin and his own games, as a result of which I have been able to determine round numbers and dates for the Challengers and also make various amendments to the games compared to their appearance on Mega Database 2020.
20/07/24 1985 West of England Ch'ship Gary W Lane 40 games, 1 part-game, plus 8 games other sections, plus a partial crosstable. Many thanks to David LeMoir and Ian Thompson for supplying games and information.
19/07/24 1984 West of England Ch'ship Gary W Lane 37 games and two part-games, and a crosstable. Many thanks to David LeMoir and Ian Thompson for supplying games and information.
19/07/24 1981 West of England Ch'ship Peter H Clarke 34 games plus six from lower sections, and a complete crosstable. Many thanks to David LeMoir, Ian Thompson and Graham Stuart for supplying me with games and relevant information.
17/07/24 2024 Wood Green Invitational M Wadsworth, S Ernst All 45 games from this GM/IM norm event held in Stafford.
14/07/24 1966/67 Hastings Mikhail Botvinnik All 45 games from the Premier, some with minor move order amendments and changed dates from what appears elsewhere on the web. Plus 35 games from the Challengers, 8 from other sections, crosstables, results. Latest: two further games from the Challengers: (1) P.Gibbs 1-0 L.Gusel (rd 6); (2) R.Paige 1-0 L.Gusel (rd 9). Many thanks to Andy Ansel for supplying these games. And later still: Three more games received, from Ulrich Tamm, for which many thanks: (1) W.Nicolai 1-0 P.S.Milner-Barry (Challengers, rd 2); (2) P.Hoogendoorn 0-1 W.Nicolai (Challengers, rd 5); (3) R.Wittmann 1-0 D.Adams (Main PM A, rd 8).
14/07/24 1964/65 Hastings Paul Keres New item: 45 Premier games plus 35 from lower sections, crosstables, results, photos and cartoons. Latest: Added two games: (1) M.Christoph 1-0 B.H.Wood (Challengers, rd 8); (2) R.Wittmann 1-0 B.Piggott (Main D, rd 2). Many thanks to Ulrich Tamm for sending the scores.
12/07/24 1984 British Championship Nigel Short All 347 games, plus 33 from other sections. Latest: Added the game A.Talbot 1-0 M.Hepworth (Under 16). Many thanks to Brian Denman for supplying the score.
12/07/24 1953 British Championship D A Yanofsky All 176 games of the Championship, plus 23 from subsidiary events (junior events were played some months previous). Latest: added the game J.Walsh 1-0 Rev. H.Blackett, Second Class A. Many thanks to Brian Denman for supplying the score.
09/07/24 1955 Birmingham Training Tournament Geoffrey F Harris 15 games + 1 part-game from a ten-player a.p.a. held in Birmingham, June/July 1955. Crosstable and report.
06/07/24 1997 Hodgson-Rowson match & Carlton Park Masters Hodgson 3½-2½ Rowson; J Aagaard & J Shaw All six games from the Hodgson-Rowson match and all 45 from the ten-player-all which ran alongside it in Rotherham. Complete with dates, crosstables.
05/07/24 1996 Arkell-Rowson match & Caledonian Masters Rowson 4-2 Arkell; Mark Ferguson All six games of the December 1996 Rowson-Arkell match and the 1st Caledonian Masters. Games now supplied with dates, plus crosstables.
04/07/24 1996 British Championship C Ward 213 games (from a possible 341) plus 44 games from subsidiary events. Latest: Added 11 games played by Norman Stephenson in the Major Open. Many thanks to Norman for suppyling the scores.
04/07/24 1995 British Championship Matthew Sadler 227 games from the 1995 British Championship played in Swansea, plus 21 games from subsidiary sections. Latest: added the 11 games that Norman Stephenson played in the Major Open. My thanks to Norman for supplying the scores.
30/06/24 2024 County Championship Final Surrey All 16 games from the ECF County Championship Final played yesterday (29 June) in Newark. Surrey beat Northumberland by 10-6.
24/06/24 1981 Botvinnik Simul Botvinnik 4½-3½ First upload (24 June) of four games and one part-game of an eight-board clock simul given by Mikhail Botvinnik against the cream of England's under-18 players. Colourised photo of the participants, annotations, magazine reports.
16/06/24 Various (1940s and 1950s) - I'm currently on holiday but I've been making a few minor additions to collections of games from the 1940s and 1950s. If you click on the above links and look at the 'date posted' field, you'll see where I have added PGN files for some events over the past month. I'll add some text (results, crosstables, etc) to go with them in due course.
03/06/24 1897 Craigside Hydro George E H Bellingham 20 games and 2 part-games, crosstables, report from BCM, plus a photo of Bellingham colourised by me. Latest: the game E.O.Jones 0-1 E.Macdonald now has all the moves, while the game W.Supple 0-1 E.Macdonald (Handicap event) now has further source material and should now work properly in the viewer window. Many thanks to Brian Denman for his input.
28/05/24 2024 English Senior Championships Peter Wells (Over 50); Paul Littlewood (Over 65) All 229 games from the English Senior Championships, Over 50 and Over 65 categories, held in Kenilworth from 24-28 May.
21/05/24 Games of Comins Mansfield - 44 games played by Comins Mansfield (1896-1984). Many thanks to Gerard Killoran for originating this set of games by the famous problemist in 2016. Latest: added three more games, from a match played against W.Fairhurst between 22 April and 13 May 1947, presumably in Glasgow. From the Fairhurst games collection assembled and curated by the Chess Scotland archivist Alan McGowan, for which many thanks.
18/05/24 1992 Welsh Championship John G Cooper First posted here, with 144 games, in 2000, now with dates, crosstable and viewer and some amendments.
09/05/24 2024 Southend Masters Szymon Gumularz All 121 games of this nine-round swiss. Many thanks to IA Lance Leslie-Smith for sending the games and a report.
09/05/24 2024 UK Armed Forces Ch'ship William Bradley 337 game entries from the recent UK Armed Forces Championship, held at RAF Wittering. My thanks to Kevin Thurlow for the games.
03/05/24 2024 Alexander Cup: Kingston v Wimbledon Kingston All ten games from the final of the Surrey County Chess Association team knock-out competition, played 2 May 2024.
20/04/24 1989 Barnsdale Young Masters Mihai Suba 41 of a possible 230 games, from this very strong weekender played 24-26 February 1989. Some of the games appeared on Big/Mega Databases but without dates or round numbers plus identification errors. It has been possible to work out most of these from the results given in the 1989/90 BCF Yearbook. Latest: Added the game J.Nicholson 1-0 Duncan R Woods (rd 3), contributed by John Nicholson, for which many thanks.
20/04/24 1979 Lloyds Bank Masters Murray Chandler 191 games, with dates and ratings, and with various corrections applied. Also a complete crosstable, three photos of the last round and prizegiving and contemporary reports of the tournament. Latest: Added the games J.Nicholson 1-0 A.Stebbings (rd 3) and G.Clark 0-1 J.Nicholson (rd 8), submitted by John Nicholson, for which many thanks.
12/04/24 Holiday! - BritBase is currently on holiday for a couple of weeks. Back soon! (n.b. I can make minor edits during this time but am unlikely to do so)
05/04/24 2024 Shropshire Open A Vaidyanathan 74 games from the January 2024 Shropshire Open, plus 30 games from other sections. Many thanks to Rudy Van Kemenade for sending the games (which include his annotations).
05/04/24 1991 Greater Manchester Autumn Open five-way tie New item: 39 games from the bulletin of the September 1991 Greater Manchester Autumn Open, input and submitted by Andy Ansel, for which many thanks. Ian Dutton, James Howell, David Knox, Vic Knox and Brett Lund tied for 1st. The bulletin has minimal info besides the game scores (e.g. no round numbers). Can anyone contribute info so that a crosstable can be assembled? Latest: added three more games sent in by Rudy Van Kemenade. Many thanks, Rudy. Running total now 42 games (one duplicate removed).
29/03/24 1905 British Championship H E Atkins 44 games from the 1905 British Championship held in Southport, 22 stubs, plus 47+2 games/part-games from subsidiary events. Latest: after a further long trawl through newspapers and magazines, I've overhauled the file, adding six games, etc. Click on the above link for further details of all the changes made.
27/03/24 1922 West of England Ch'ship J H Blake New item. 29 games, 1 part-game and 15 stubs from the 1st West of England Championship held in Weston-super-Mare in 1922, plus 8 games from other sections, crosstables, report and results.
26/03/24 1921/22 Hastings Boris Kostic All 45 games have been available for some time; now added 4 from the Masters, plus crosstables, report and results. Latest: added the game E.M.Beddall 1-0 NN from the Third Class B section. Many thanks to Brian Denman. Various other cosmetic amendments applied.
14/03/24 1923 NCCU Premier, Liverpool Jacques Mieses 27 games, 3 part-games, 15 stubs plus 6 games from lower sections. Latest: added the game Dawbarn 0-1 Mieses (rd 7) contributed by Michael Kühl, for which many thanks. Michael has also researched and contributed a number of primary sources which I have appended to the scores. Many thanks to Michael. I have added some comments about Gerald Abrahams to the score of the game T.Gerrard-G.Abrahams (and to the text above) which may be of interest. EDIT: I've added another game from Minor tournament, J.Whitworth 1-0 H.A.Cadman/C.A.Mann.
13/03/24 1935/36 Hastings Reuben Fine All 45 Premier games, 42/16 games/part-games from lower sections, crosstables, results, report, etc. Latest: one part-game is now a complete score: J.Mieses 1-0 R.Cross (Premier Reserves B) and another part-game has 12 more half-moves added at the end (though still probably incomplete): E.Klein 0-1 J.Enevoldsen (Premier Reserves A). My thanks to Michael Kühl for sending these games and also contributing other source references.
10/03/24 1910/11 City of London CC Championship William Ward New item. 37 of 136 games in the 1910/11 City of London Chess Club Championship. Latest: added the game G.Wainwright 0-1 R.Loman. Many thanks to Gerard Killoran who contributed it via the English Chess Forum.
04/03/04 2024 Varsity Oxford-Cambridge Oxford University All eight games, scores, photos.
01/03/24 1926 Birmingham A Alekhine New item as of 1 March 2024: all 15 games from the six-player tournament played in Birmingham in June 1926. According to one report it was organised at 24 hours' notice!
01/03/24 1926 Scarborough A Alekhine New item as of 1 March 2024: all 46 games from the Scarborough A & B groups plus 4 from other sections, plus crosstables, colourised photo and results of other section.
24/02/24 2024 Cambridge International M Adams (on tie-break) All 483 games from the Cambridge International Open which ended today.
21/02/24 1911 E Colman v FJ Marshall Match FJ Marshall New item. All three games of this short match played in London in April 1911.
20/02/24 2024 Hastings Weekend Open Keith Arkell, Marta Garcia Martin 105 games and crosstable.
15/02/24 1970 Glorney Cup England All 90 games. First published here in 1998 but now with updated games showing team affiliations plus quite a number of corrections.
15/02/24 1923 Margate Ernst Grünfeld Grünfeld won ahead of Alekhine, Réti and others. 20 games, 2 part-games, 6 stubs plus 5+1 games from lower section. Group photo (with identifications) and reports. Latest: added the full score of Colman 0-1 Réti, round 3, contributed by Tabanus, for which many thanks.
29/01/24 1959 British Championship Jonathan Penrose (after a play-off with Haygarth & Golombek) All 187 games of the 1959 British Championship, plus 42 from subsidiary events, and all four from the play-off tournament played in November 1959 between Penrose, Haygarth and Golombek. Latest: added the game G.Sandiford 1-0 D.G.Smith (Under-15), which was awarded the best game prize for the Under 15 Championship. Many thanks to Gerard Killoran for contributing it via the English Chess Forum.
17/01/24 1950 West of England Ch'ship H V W Trevenen Just two games from the 1950 WECU Championship, plus 1 from a lower section. Crosstable of the Championship.
12/01/24 1929 London Quadrangular F Yates, W Winter A four-player tournament (the other players were Sultan Khan and Adrián García Conde) hosted by Edith Price at the Gambit Chess Rooms in London. Nine of the twelve game scores are available.
10/01/24 1962/63 Hastings Gligoric, Kotov All 45 Premier & 45 Challengers games, plus 6 from lower sections. Also, crosstables, photos and results. Latest: added the game A.Whiteley 0-1 V.Knox (Main B).
08/01/24 2023/24 Hastings Abhijeet Gupta All 424 games from the Hastings Masters, from lichess.org, crtosstable from chess-results.com
08/01/24 1963/64 Hastings Mikhail Tal Complete games of the Premier and Challengers (jointly won by Nona Gaprindashvili), plus 10 games from other sections. Latest: added another game from Main B: R.Paige 1-0 R.Pinner.
05/01/24 1973 Evening Standard Islington Open Borivoje Vujacic 100+1 games+part/games of this weekender, plus six games from subsidiary events and the London U21 Ch'p. More than 2,000 players took part in this record-breaking congress, played 7-9 December. Latest: now added games played by Paul Littlewood and James Aitken, from their individual game collections, and the report by Stewart Reuben.

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