Hastings chess tournament
The Hastings chess tournament ( Hastings Premier ) at the Christmas Hastings International Chess Congress has been an annual chess tournament in Hastings, England, since 1920/21, with an interruption because of the Second World War . Other chess tournaments were organized irregularly at the Summer Congress in Hastings.
history
standing (from left): Albin , Schlechter , Janowski , Marco , Blackburne , Maróczy , Schiffers , Gunsberg , Burn , Tinsley ;
sitting (from left): Vergani , Steinitz , Tschigorin , Em. Lasker , Pillsbury , Tarrasch , Mieses , Teichmann
In the 1880s there was a great interest in the game of chess in Hastings. On June 15, 1882, an advertisement was published in a local newspaper that a chess congress was to be held on June 28, 1882 at the Albert Temperance Hotel. The Hastings and St. Leonards Chess Club emerged from the meeting . Under the direction of Secretary Herbert Dobell , regional tournaments were initially organized and later annual readings were held, for which master players were invited.
In the summer of 1895 the Hastings 1895 chess tournament was held as a round-robin tournament with 22 players, including world chess champion Emanuel Lasker and ex-world champion William Steinitz , who were favorites alongside Siegbert Tarrasch . The tournament was won by the 22-year-old American Harry Nelson Pillsbury ahead of the Russian Michail Tschigorin , while the favorites finished in third to fifth place. The tournament is considered to be one of the strongest in chess history .
After the interim "winner's tournament" in 1919, the first chess tournament in the Allied states after the First World War , Christmas congresses were held from Christmas 1920, which were supposed to include an annual round-robin tournament. The first such tournament in 1920/21 was won by the Englishman Frederick Yates . The annual implementation was maintained until 1939/40, but was then interrupted because of the Second World War. The tournament has been held annually since 1945/46.
The first ten world chess champions William Steinitz, Emanuel Lasker, José Raúl Capablanca , Alexander Alekhine , Max Euwe , Michail Botwinnik , Vasily Smyslow , Michail Tal , Tigran Petrosjan and Boris Spasski as well as the twelfth world chess champion Anatoli Karpow took part in a chess tournament in Hastings. World chess champion Vera Menchik was the first woman to play in the annual tournament from 1929/30 to 1936/37. As another world chess champion, Nona Gaprindashvili took part in 1964/65 .
Tournaments
Summer tournaments
The summer tournaments were held irregularly.
# year winner 1 1895 Harry Nelson Pillsbury (United States) 2 1919 José Raúl Capablanca (Cuba) 3 1922 Alexander Alekhine (Russia) 4th 1995 Suat Atalık (Turkey)
Hastings Premier
The Hastings Premier takes place annually at the turn of the year, with an interruption of several years during the Second World War. Until 2003/04 the tournament was held as a round-robin tournament with normally 10 to 16 players, with fewer players at the beginning, so there were only four participants in 1920/21. A knockout tournament was held in 2004/05 ; Since the 2005/06 tournament, the Premier has been held as an open tournament in the Swiss system over nine rounds.
The qualification traditionally took place via the Hastings Challengers , which was an open tournament based on the Swiss system. With the abolition of the participant restriction 2005/06 this was discontinued.
Further five-round tournaments are offered as a supporting program.
The following table shows the winners and tied players in the Premier.
# year winner 1 1920/21 Frederick Yates (England) 2 1921/22 Boris Kostić (Yugoslavia) 3 1922/23 Akiba Rubinstein (Poland) 4th 1923/24 Max Euwe (Netherlands) 5 1924/25 Géza Maróczy (Hungary)
Savielly Tartakower (Poland)6th 1925/26 Alexander Alekhine (France)
Milan Vidmar (Yugoslavia)7th 1926/27 Savielly Tartakower (Poland) 8th 1927/28 Savielly Tartakower (Poland) 9 1928/29 Edgard Colle (Belgium)
Frank Marshall (United States)
Sándor Takács (Hungary)10 1929/30 José Raúl Capablanca (Cuba) 11 1930/31 Max Euwe (Netherlands) 12 1931/32 Salo Flohr (Czechoslovakia) 13 1932/33 Salo Flohr (Czechoslovakia) 14th 1933/34 Salo Flohr (Czechoslovakia) 15th 1934/35 Max Euwe (Netherlands)
George Alan Thomas (England)
Salo Flohr (Czechoslovakia)16 1935/36 Reuben Fine (United States) 17th 1936/37 Alexander Alekhine (France) 18th 1937/38 Samuel Reshevsky (United States) 19th 1938/39 László Szabó (Hungary) 20th 1939/40 Frank Parr (England) 1940/41
...
1944/45Interruption due to the Second World War 21st 1945/46 Savielly Tartakower (France) 22nd 1946/47 Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander (England) 23 1947/48 László Szabó (Hungary) 24 1948/49 Nicolas Rossolimo (France) 25th 1949/50 László Szabó (Hungary) 26th 1950/51 Wolfgang Unzicker (Federal Republic of Germany) 27 1951/52 Svetozar Gligorić (Yugoslavia) 28 1952/53 Harry Golombek (England)
Antonio Medina (Spain)
Jonathan Penrose (England)
Abe Yanofsky (Canada)29 1953/54 Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander (England)
Dawid Bronstein (Soviet Union)30th 1954/55 Paul Keres (Soviet Union)
Vasily Smyslow (Soviet Union)31 1955/56 Viktor Korchnoi (Soviet Union)
Friðrik Ólafsson (Iceland)32 1956/57 Svetozar Gligorić (Yugoslavia)
Bent Larsen (Denmark)33 1957/58 Paul Keres (Soviet Union) 34 1958/59 Wolfgang Uhlmann (GDR) 35 1959/60 Svetozar Gligorić (Yugoslavia) 36 1960/61 Svetozar Gligorić (Yugoslavia) 37 1961/62 Mikhail Botvinnik (Soviet Union) 38 1962/63 Svetozar Gligorić (Yugoslavia)
Alexander Kotow (Soviet Union)39 1963/64 Mikhail Tal (Soviet Union) 40 1964/65 Paul Keres (Soviet Union) 41 1965/66 Boris Spasski (Soviet Union)
Wolfgang Uhlmann (GDR)42 1966/67 Mikhail Botvinnik (Soviet Union) 43 1967/68 Florin Gheorghiu (Romania)
Vlastimil Hort (Czechoslovakia)
Leonid Stein (Soviet Union)
Alexei Suetin (Soviet Union)44 1968/69 Vasily Smyslow (Soviet Union) 45 1969/70 Lajos Portisch (Hungary) 46 1970/71 Lajos Portisch (Hungary) 47 1971/72 Anatoly Karpov (Soviet Union)
Viktor Korchnoi (Soviet Union)48 1972/73 Bent Larsen (Denmark) 49 1973/74 Hennadij Kusmin (Soviet Union)
László Szabó (Hungary)
Michail Tal (Soviet Union)
Jan Timman (Netherlands)50 1974/75 Vlastimil Hort (Czechoslovakia) 51 1975/76 Dawid Bronstein (Soviet Union)
Vlastimil Hort (Czechoslovakia)
Wolfgang Uhlmann (GDR)52 1976/77 Oleh Romanyschyn (Soviet Union) 53 1977/78 Roman Dzindzichashvili (Israel) 54 1978/79 Ulf Andersson (Sweden) 55 1979/80 Ulf Andersson (Sweden)
John Nunn (England)56 1980/81 Ulf Andersson (Sweden) 57 1981/82 Viktor Kuprejchyk (Soviet Union) 58 1982/83 Rafael Vaganian (Soviet Union) 59 1983/84 Lars Karlsson (Sweden)
Jonathan Speelman (England)60 1984/85 Yevgeny Svezhnikov (Soviet Union) 61 1985/86 Margeir Pétursson (Iceland) 62 1986/87 Murray Chandler (England)
Bent Larsen (Denmark)
Smbat Lputjan (Soviet Union)
Jonathan Speelman (England)63 1987/88 Nigel Short (England) 64 1988/89 Nigel Short (England) 65 1989/90 Sergei Dolmatov (Soviet Union) 66 1990/91 Yevgeny Bareev (Soviet Union) 67 1991/92 Yevgeny Bareev (Russia) 68 1992/93 Judit Polgár (Hungary)
Jewgeni Barejew (Russia)69 1993/94 John Nunn (England) 70 1994/95 Thomas Luther (Germany) 71 1995/96 Stuart Conquest (England)
Alexander Chalifman (Russia)
Bogdan Lalić (Croatia)72 1996/97 Mark Hebden (England)
John Nunn (England)
Eduardas Rozentalis (Lithuania)73 1997/98 Matthew Sadler (England) 74 1998/99 Ivan Sokolov (Bosnia and Herzegovina) 75 1999/00 Emil Sutovsky (Israel) 76 2000/01 Stuart Conquest (England)
K. Sasikiran (India)77 2001/02 Alexei Barsov (Uzbekistan)
P. Harikrishna (India)
K. Sasikiran (India)78 2002/03 Peter Heine Nielsen (Denmark) 79 2003/04 Vasilios Kotronias (Greece)
Jonathan Rowson (Scotland)80 2004/05 Vladimir Below (Russia) 81 2005/06 Valery Neverov (Ukraine) 82 2006/07 Merab Gagunashvili (Georgia)
Valery Nevjerov (Ukraine)83 2007/08 Wadym Malachatko (Belgium)
Nicat Məmmədov (Azerbaijan)
Valery Nevjerov (Ukraine)84 2008/09 Igor Kurnossow (Russia) 85 2009/10 Andrei Istrățescu (Romania)
Romain Édouard (France)
David Howell (England)
Mark Hebden (England)86 2010/11 Deep Sengupta (India)
Arghyadip Das (India)87 2011/12 Wang Yue (China) 88 2012/13 Gawain Jones (England) 89 2013/14 Micheil Mtschedlischwili (Georgia)
Igor Khenkin (Germany)
Ma Qun (China)
Mark Hebden (England)
Jahongir Vakhidov (Uzbekistan)
Justin Sarkar (USA)
Jovica Radovanovic (Serbia)90 2014/15 Zhao Jun (China) 91 2015/16 Jahongir Vakhidov (Uzbekistan)
Aleksander Miśta (Poland)92 2016/17 Deep Sengupta (India) 93 2017/18 Deep Sengupta (India)
Lou Yiping (China)94 2018/19 Oleg Korneev (Spain)
Šarūnas Šulskis (Lithuania)
Daniel Gormally (England)
Martin Petrov (Bulgaria)
Alexander Tschernjajew (Russia)
Conor E. Murphy (Ireland)95 2019/20 Magesh Panchanathan (India)
literature
- Reg Cload, Raymond Keene: Battles of Hastings: A History of the Hastings International Chess Congress . Pergamon Chess 1991, ISBN 978-0-08-037791-9 .
Web links
Individual references and sources
- ↑ a b chessbase.de: Scottish champion wins Hastings , January 7, 2004, accessed on August 22, 2011.
- ↑ see list of winners from 1920/21 to 2006/07 , 2007/08 ( memento from August 3, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), 2008/09 ( memento from August 3, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), 2009/10 ( Memento from 1 August 2012 at the Web archive archive.today ) and 2010/11 ( Memento of 2 August 2012 at the Web archive archive.today ) on the old official website. See 2012/13 on the new official website.
- ↑ K. Hack: 63rd Chess Congress Hastings '88 . Schach-Echo 1988, issue 2, pages 54 and 55 (report, games).