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BRITBASE is a national archive of British chess tournament games, in zipped PGN format. Some files have been marked to indicate their availability on commercial databases, though in many cases the data you find here will be more accurate than from such sources. Material dates back to Hastings 1895, though I've concentrated mainly on contemporary material. To find the files, select one of the links shown above.

I have collected and input other tournaments, especially Hastings and British Championships (BCF-ch). Some of these are available here as downloads; others are marked 'needed', i.e. they are not currently available as a PGN file.

This is where you can help - if you know where to get these games, let me know! The files we most need to fill the gaps can be found via the 'Most Wanted' page. Or if you find something that is not correct, and wish to point it out. Your feedback will be very welcome. I post such material on the 'Korrection Korner' page.

This archive was started up in 1997. What is being done here is fairly ambitious, and has not been possible without a lot of help from you people out there. I would particularly like to thank the very kind people (listed on the 'Further Information' page) who have offered encouragement and help so far. Keep it coming!

If anyone can supply bulletins relating to any of the missing tournaments, please contact me via email. Any bulletins sent will be well-treated and returned.

Britbase Founder & Archivist : John Saunders


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What's New on Britbase ...

Posted Tournament Title & Year Winner Contributor, Notes
27/11/05 Paignton Premier 2005 Steve Berry All 172 games. My thanks to Bill Frost of Keverel Chess.
27/11/05 Guernsey Open/Holiday 2005 Oleg Korneev (Open)
Graham Kershaw (Holiday)
All 186 games from the Open, plus 145 games from the Holiday Open. Thanks to Arthur Brameld for inputting and sending the games.
27/11/05 4NCL 2004/5, Div.3 - All Games
4NCL 2004/5, Div.4 - All Games
Div.3 - Oxford
Div.4 - Slough 2 /Hilsmark 2
The 4NCL is the British Team Championship. From the 4NCL website (www.4ncl.co.uk). Round by round downloads of the 2005/6 4NCL season may be found here.
06/10/05 Monarch Assurance 2005 Alex Shabalov (tie-break from Alexander Areschenko) All 415 games, keyed in by me. Official website - click here.
06/09/05 Jack Speigel Mem Southend & Southend Open 2005 Danny Gormally All 28 games of the Jack Speigel Memorial, and 227 games of the Southend Open (which ended in a five-way tie). My thanks to Howard Grist for sending the games, plus all of the Southend games listed below.
06/09/05 Southend Open 2001 Stefan Shikerov 327 games. See above note.
06/09/05 Southend Open 2002 Simon Knott, Simon Williams 279 games. See above note.
06/09/05 Southend Open 2003 Peter Wells 246 games. See above note.
06/09/05 Southend Open 2004 Simon Knott, Ken Harman 270 games. See above note.
06/09/05 Coulsdon International 2005 John Cox All 45 games of this 10-player all-play-all international.
06/09/05 Irish Championship, Dublin 2005 Colm Daly All 90 games from the Irish Championship.
06/09/05 2nd South Wales International 2005 Vladimir Dobrov All 218 games.
06/09/05 Scottish Championship 2005 Jacob Aagaard (tournament), Craig Pritchett (Scottish title) All 63 games of the Scottish Championship, plus 55 games from subsidiary events at the congress.
06/09/05 3rd Staunton Memorial 2005 Jonathan Levitt, Jonathan Speelman All 30 games.
06/09/05 Adams vs Hydra 2005 Hydra All six games.
06/09/05 British Championship 2005 Jonathan Rowson All 253 games, courtesy of the BCF website. The game Humphreys-Fraser (Rd 4) slightly amended (my thanks to Brian Denman)
23/08/05 England vs Netherlands 1971 England 11½-8½ Netherlands All 20 games, culled from BCM and Chess magazines. The top eight boards from this match also counted as a European Team Championship qualifying match. By winning the eight-board match 9-7, England qualified for the final which was held in Bath in 1973.
23/08/05 BCF Major Open & Juniors 2005 Abu Sufian Shakil From the BCF website. All games from the Major Open, plus some games from junior sections. 551 in all.
03/04/05 Welsh Championship 2005 Leighton Williams All 89 games (extra game F May v E White, Rd 5, added 3 April), plus 77 games from the Major tournament and 59 from the Minor tournament. Thanks to John Thornton.
30/03/05 England vs Netherlands 1961 England 13-7 Netherlands All 22 games. Keyed in by me.
30/03/05 Varsity Match 2005 Cambridge University All 8 games, keyed in by me.
26/02/05 Jersey Congress 2005 David Howell All 92 games from the Open, plus 46 from the Major and 45 from the Minor. Thanks to Arthur Brameld.
26/02/05 Gibraltar Masters 2005 Sutovsky, Georgiev, Aronian, Efimenko, Shirov All 609 games. Thanks to Sean Hewitt and Bill O'Rourke.
30/01/05 British Championship 1909 & Atkins-Blake play-off match HE Atkins All 66 games from the BCF Championship in Scarborough, plus all 3 games from the Atkins-Blake play-off (Jan 1910).
30/01/05 USA-GB Cable Match 1909
USA-GB University Cable Match 1909
GB won the cable match, USA won the universities match All 10 games of the cable match and all 6 games of the university match. Mega Database 2005 has several of the names wrong from the two matches.
30/01/05 USA-GB Cable Match 1901 Drawn 5-5 All 10 games. Mega Database 2005 has only seven of these games, for some reason.
13/10/04 Guernsey Open 2004 R Bellin Thanks to Arthur Brameld for sending the games
13/10/04 World Senior Team Championship 2004 Germany / Israel Thanks to Andrew P Smith for entering the games.
09/10/04 Monarch Assurance Isle of Man 2004 E Ghaem Maghami All 439 games, keyed in by me and Andrew P Smith
14/09/04 Paignton Premier 2004 K Arkell All 150 games, input and sent by Bill Frost.
14/09/04 Welsh Championship 2004 S Evans-Quek All 116 games, plus 84 games from the Welsh Major tournament. Thanks to Jon Gilbert.
05/09/04 London vs New York telex match 1976 New York All 14 games taken from BCM, November 1976. Players include Miles, Nunn, Mestel, Rohde, Edward Lasker and the very young Short and Benjamin.
05/09/04 2nd Staunton Memorial, Simpsons 2004 1-2 D King, J Speelman All 12 games from the www.howardstaunton.com website. Thanks to Jon and Tinni Levitt.
20/08/04 British Championship 2004 Jonathan Rowson All 341 championship games. Thanks to the BCF bulletin team and Dave Clayton.
19/08/04 British Championship 2002 RB Ramesh 7 games have been added from the bulletin, so now there is only one missing. However the bulletin shows that some scores have been truncated. Thanks to Brian Denman for the loan of the bulletin.
18/08/04 British Championship 1998 Nigel Short Amended to include 35 extra games which were missing from the original download (and commercial databases). My thanks to Brian Denman for the loan of the bulletin, and for pointing out that the bulletin included games which had not been included among those made available for download on the BCF's original tournament website. I have also sourced a few other games that were not in the bulletin either. Now composed of 363 games, plus 2 play-off games, of which 76 are blanks.
28/07/04 Scottish Championship 2004 Jonathan Rowson All 82 games, from the official website.
28/07/04 SpecSavers Young Masters 2004 Craig Hanley All 220 games, thanks to Richard Palliser
20/07/04 Bognor Regis/Churchill Memorial 1968 Z Doda Only 30 games, plus 4 partials, from this eight-round, 52-player swiss, mainly gathered from BCM and 'Chess', keyed in by me. Does anyone have any more?
27/05/04 4NCL 2003/4, Div.1 - All Games
4NCL 2003/4, Div.2 - All Games
Div.1 - Guildford-ADC
Div.2 - Bristol
The 4NCL is the British Team Championship. Thanks to Arthur Brameld, Malcolm Armstrong, Peter Sowray for inputting the games.
11/05/04 Folkestone Olympiad 1933 USA Thanks to Wojciech Bartelski at www.olimpbase.org who has taken the BritBase download and added 29 more game scores to it. Of the 420 games, 160 blanks remain.
11/05/04 Hastings Files - Thanks to Andy Ansel for sending 4 game scores from Hastings 1947/48. I have added one more from the same tournament myself.
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