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BRITBASE
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 British Chess Magazine |
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
| Posted | Tournament Title & Year | Winner | Contributor, Notes |
| 21/06/07 | Cotswold Open 2007 | Chris Beaumont | All 43 games. Many thanks to Chris Mattos for sending the games. Chris Beaumont (Bristol) won with 6/6 ahead of Steve Berry (Wimbledon) on 5 and Nigel Beveridge (Hereford) on 4. |
| 21/06/07 | Oxford University Open 2004 | Jonathan Rowson | All 55 games, plus 10 blanks (for byes). Many thanks to IM Richard Palliser for keying in the games and sending the file (he acknowledges the help of Priscilla Morris and Kieran Smallbone). A strong event which included 2 GMs (Rowson and Wells) and one IM (Crouch). |
| 05/05/07 | Manchester Benedictine 1981 | Tony Miles | 116 games, plus 19 blanks. Gert Ligterink sent me this file, but when I checked my records I found I already had the games (apart from three of Gert's own games which were new) but had not posted them here. I cannot recall but I think they must have been keyed in by me from a bulletin supplied by the late Richard Furness. Many thanks to Gert Ligterink for sending the file. |
| 05/05/07 | Lloyds Bank Masters 1981 | Ray Keene, Yasser Seirawan, Tony Miles | 119 games (all the games in the bulletin). My thanks to Stewart Reuben for lending the bulletin and Steve Giddins for keying in the games. Reposted 05/05/07 - my thanks to Gert Ligterink for sending a new version of his game with R Keene with additional moves at the end, plus an additional game - his round 9 game versus R Nokes. |
| 03/05/07 | Lewisham 1982 | Jim Plaskett | 87 games (all the games in the bulletin). My thanks to Stewart Reuben for lending the bulletin and Steve Giddins for keying in the games. |
| 02/05/07 | Robert Silk Young Masters, London 1982 | William Watson | All 45 games of this category 5 tournament, with six players who went on to become GMs (Watson, Tisdall, Hebden, Motwani, Davies, Conquest). My thanks to Stewart Reuben for lending the bulletin and Steve Giddins for keying in the games. |
| 24/04/07 | Welsh Championship 2007 | James Cobb | All 95 games plus 156 games from the subsidiary sections. Thanks to Jon Gilbert and John Thornton for sending games. |
| 24/04/07 | Southend Open 2007 | Robert Eames | All 246 games, courtesy of the Southend CC website. |
| 24/04/07 | Lloyds Bank Masters 1977 | Miguel Quinteros | 166 games, plus 1 from a subsidiary event. This was the first of the famous Lloyds Bank Masters tournaments which played a big part in igniting the 'English chess explosion'. My thanks to Stewart Reuben for lending the bulletin, Steve Giddins for keying in the games, and to Leonard Barden whom we believe produced the entire bulletin in manuscript(!). |
| 24/04/07 | Islington 1971 | R Bellin, J Carleton, PC Griffiths, MV Lambshire, J Nunn, S Webb, A Whiteley | 103 games from the open, plus another 74 from subsidiary and follow-up events. My thanks to Stewart Reuben for lending the bulletin, Steve Giddins for keying in the games |
| 20/04/07 | Coulsdon Easter 2007 | Alex Cherniaev; Robin Haldane | All 45 games of the category 4 norm event, plus 45 from the Challengers. Thanks to Scott Freeman for supplying the games. Reposted 20/04/07 - one of the games (Khantuev-Arjun, Rd 8) amended to show the names of the players round the right way) |
| 15/04/07 | West of England (WECU) Championship 2007 | Matthew Turner | All 61 games from the Chess Devon website (no doubt input by Bill Frost - many thanks) |
| 11/04/07 | Jack Speigel Memorial 2007 | Mark Hebden | All 28 games from this Southend event, courtesy of the Southend CC website. |
| 11/04/07 | Blackpool Open 2007 | Harald Borchgrevink | A selection of 45 games. |
| 09/04/07 | Tal UK Simul Games 1964 | - | 27 simultaneous and exhibition games played by Mikhail Tal in England after the Hastings tournament in January 1964. Includes 22 of the games played in the London (John Lewis) simul of 9 Jan (mainly taken from Edward Winter's Chess Notes), 2 games played in the Westminster simul of 10 Jan (from BCM), a radio consultation game (played 11 Jan) and 2 games from the Birmingham simul of 11 Jan. If anyone has further games from these simuls (or other games by famous grandmasters from UK simuls), I would be very grateful. |
| 09/04/07 | East Devon Premier 2007 | Andrew P Smith | All 77 games, kindly supplied by Bill Frost. Some of the games have annotations by Jack Rudd. |
| 08/04/07 | Varsity Oxford-Cambridge 2007 | Cambridge | All 8 games, input by me. |
| 08/04/07 | New format: note that I am now going over to the use of ChessTheatre for supplying both PGN downloads and viewable game windows. Hereafter, whenever you click on a link referring to a tournament, it will produce a new java window which will let you play through games and also download a PGN file. If this causes great difficulty to users, please let me know. | ||
| 17/02/07 | Gibtelecom Challengers & Amateurs 2007 • DGT Viewer | Various | 310 games, provided by the official website, thanks to Steve Giddins and Sean Hewitt. Originally posted 10/02/07, and amended for a second time 17/02/07 to show Portman-Dimitrijevic (Challengers Wk1, Rd 2) as 1-0 (not 0-1) and append the missing 40 moves from the end. |
| 12/02/07 | Gibtelecom Masters 2007 • DGT Viewer | Vladimir Akopian | 786 games, provided by the official website, thanks to Steve Giddins, Sean Hewitt and Mark Crowther. Amended 12 Feb 2007 - Korchnoi-Bellin, Rd 4, 42...Qc7 (not 42...Qd7) was played. |
| 11/02/07 | Torbay 2006 • DGT Viewer | Tyson Mordue | 80 games from the five-round Torbay open, November 2006. My thanks to Bill Frost for sending the games. |
| 11/02/07 | Beacon 'Senior/Junior' 2006 • DGT Viewer | Senior: DIW Reynolds & R Gamble 'Junior': M Yeo |
178 games from the five-round swisses played at the Royal Beacon Congress, Exmouth, November 2006. In this context, the term 'junior' refers to players over 50. My thanks to Bill Frost for sending the games. |
| 10/02/07 | Newport 2007 • DGT Viewer | Richard S Jones | 84 games from the five-round open at the South Wales Winter Congress, January 2007. My thanks to John Thornton for sending the games. |
| 10/02/07 | Bristol Open 2006 • DGT Viewer | James Sherwin | 42 games from the five-round Bristol Open played in early December 2006. My thanks to Dave Tipper for sending the games and also drawing my attention to the excellent Bristol & District Chess League website. There is a page with downloads of games from all Bristol Congresses (more than one a year) since 1993. |
| 10/02/07 | Coulson Xmas Internationals 2006 • DGT Viewer | (A) Danny Gormally (B) Donny Muter |
90 games from two international all-play-alls played at Coulsdon Chess Fellowship just before Xmas 2006. From the Coulsdon website, thanks to Scott Freeman. |
| 10/02/07 | Hastings Masters 2006/7 • DGT Viewer | Gagunashvili & Neverov | 433 games, thanks to Steve Giddins and the Hastings website. |
| 10/02/07 | Hastings Masters 2005/6 • DGT Viewer | Valery Neverov | 503 games, thanks to Steve Giddins and the Hastings website. |
| 10/02/07 | Hastings Masters 2004/5 • DGT Viewer | Vladimir Belov | 87 games, from the Hastings website. |
| 10/02/07 | British Rapidplay Championship 2006 • DGT Viewer | Danny Gormally & Richard Palliser | 72 games, from the official website. |
| 09/12/06 | British Championship 1956 • DGT Viewer | CHO'D Alexander | 30 complete games, plus 11 part-games, plus one game from the British Under 18 Championship. This represents only a small percentage of the games played, but includes all 11 games played by 2nd-placed Frank Parr (very kindly supplied by his son Peter Parr) and all 11 games played by Ken Whyld (kindly supplied to me by Ken shortly before he died). If anyone has more games from the 1956 British Championship, I would be pleased to receive them. Later note (9 Dec): one game (Horseman-Heidenfeld) added on 9 Dec. Thanks to Andy Ansel. |
| 21/11/06 | Civil Service Open 2006 • DGT Viewer | Paul Georghiou | All 66 games, thanks to Ian Pheby. Originally posted 18/11/06, but amended 21/11/06 - name correction (Andrew P Lewis, not Alex Lewis), also a pair of moves appended to the game Radovanovic-Georghiou. My thanks to Paul Georghiou for drawing my attention to these points. |
| 20/11/06 | Guernsey Holiday 2006 • DGT Viewer | P Carlucci | All 149 games, thanks to Arthur Brameld. |
| 08/11/06 | Guernsey Open 2006 • DGT Viewer | Eduard Porper & Leonid Gofshtein | All 238 games, thanks to Arthur Brameld. |
| 08/11/06 | Dorset Open 2006 • DGT Viewer | Tyson Mordue & Martin Simons | All 56 games, thanks to Bill Frost. |
| 07/10/06 | Monarch Assurance Isle of Man 2006 • DGT Viewer | Alexander Areshchenko | All 376 games, keyed in by me. |
| 16/09/06 | Basingstoke 2001 • DGT Viewer | Peter Sowray | All 82 games from this weekender, thanks to James Pratt. |
| 16/09/06 | EU Championship Liverpool 2006 • DGT Viewer | Nigel Short | All 424 games, thanks to Steve Giddins and Dave Clayton. |
| 12/09/06 | Paignton Premier 2006 • DGT Viewer | Steve Berry | All 106 games, thanks to Bill Frost. |
| 06/09/06 | Hereford International 2006 • DGT Viewer | Danny Gormally | All 45 games, from the tournament website. My thanks to Max Devereaux. |
| 06/09/06 | Coulsdon Premier 2006 • DGT Viewer | R Berzinsh | All 45 games, thanks to Scott Freeman - plus 45 games from the Challengers event won by Tristan Cox. |
| 28/08/06 | Irish Championship 1970 • DGT Viewer | Paul Henry | All 28 games, keyed in by me from a bulletin kindly provided by Arnold Lutton and originally produced by members of Ballyclare Chess Club |
| 25/08/06 | 4th Staunton Memorial 2006 • DGT Viewer | Ivan Sokolov | All 66 games, keyed in by various people including Steve Giddins and me. |
| 20/08/06 | BCF-ch Swansea 2006 • DGT Viewer | Jonathan Rowson | All 340 games, thanks to the congress bulletin team and Dave Clayton |
| 20/08/06 | BCF Major Open 2006 • DGT Viewer | Jonathan Hawkins | All 373 games, thanks to the congress bulletin team and Dave Clayton |
| 13/08/06 | Tranmer mem Brighton 1985 • DGT Viewer | Andrew Whiteley | All 45 games, input by me, from a bulletin supplied by Stewart Reuben (for which many thanks). |
| 13/08/06 | Chequers Masters 1985 • DGT Viewer | Hebden, Condie & McNab | All 45 games, input by me, from a bulletin supplied by Stewart Reuben (for which many thanks). |
| 02/08/06 | British Senior Championship 2005 • DGT Viewer | David Anderton | All 87 games - my thanks to David Anderton and Jeff Heath |
| 02/08/06 | British Senior Championship 2004 • DGT Viewer | Norman Stephenson & David A Smith | All 110 games - my thanks to David Anderton and Jeff Heath |
| 02/08/06 | British Senior Championship 2003 • DGT Viewer | Norman Stephenson, George Dickson & David Anderton | All 77 games - my thanks to David Anderton and Jeff Heath |
| 02/08/06 | British Senior Championship 2002 • DGT Viewer | George Ellison | All 84 games - my thanks to David Anderton and Jeff Heath |
| 02/08/06 | Leicestershire County Championship 2005 • DGT Viewer | AJ Morley | All 121 games - my thanks to Sean Hewitt |
| 19/07/06 | Hampshire Championship 2005 • DGT Viewer | Tony Corkett | All 56 games - my thanks to Arthur Brameld |
| 18/07/06 | Scottish Championship 2006 • DGT Viewer | Jonathan Grant | All 37 games, thanks to the Chess Scotland website |
| 14/07/06 | South Wales International 2006 • DGT Viewer | Milos Pavlovic | All 246 games (plus 40 byes) from the Caerleon tournament - my thanks to Mark Adams and Jack Rudd. |
| 23/06/06 | 4NCL 2005/6, Div.4 - All Games | Pride and Prejudice | 1,056 games, from the 4NCL website - http://www.4ncl.co.uk/ - my thanks to Peter Sowray and the 4NCL games inputters. |
| 31/05/06 | Newport Open 2006 | Peter Varley | 45 games, provided by John Thornton - many thanks. |
| 14/05/06 | 4NCL 2005/6, Div.3 - All Games | Hilsmark Kingfisher 2 | 528 games, from the 4NCL website - http://www.4ncl.co.uk/ - my thanks to Peter Sowray and the 4NCL games inputters. |
| 08/05/06 | 4NCL 2005/6, Div.2 - All Games | Bristol | 528 games, from the 4NCL website - http://www.4ncl.co.uk/ - my thanks to Peter Sowray and the 4NCL games inputters. |
| 03/05/06 | Royal Beacon aged 60+ 2005 | Norman Stephenson | All 135 games from the Exmouth Senior tournament, thanks to Bill Frost |
| 02/05/06 | East Devon Premier 2006 | A Boyne | 108 games - my thanks to Bill Frost. |
| 02/05/06 | Coulsdon Xmas International 2005 | Colin McNab | All 45 games - my thanks to Scott Freeman. |
| 02/05/06 | Southport 1998 | Jim Plaskett, John Littlewood | 45 games. Games sent some time ago by the late Keith Brown. |
| 02/05/06 | Aintree Open 1998 | Mark Hebden | 88 games plus 10 from Aintree 1997. Games sent some time ago by the late Keith Brown. |
| 02/05/06 | Civil Service Congress 2005 | Alex Cherniaev | 57 games from the open, 101 from the Major and 138 from the Minor. Thanks to Ian Pheby. |
| 02/05/06 | Royal Beacon aged 50+ 2005 | RA Barton | All 62 games from the Exmouth 'Junior' tournament, thanks to Bill Frost |
| 02/05/06 | Commonwealth Championship 1985 | K Spraggett, P Thipsay | 197 games from the bulletin, input by Steve Giddins - many thanks. |
| 02/05/06 | Paignton Women's International 1967 | Nona Gaprindashvili | All 28 games, input by me, from a bulletin supplied by Stewart Reuben (for which many thanks). |
| 02/05/06 | Havering Women's International 1967 | Nona Gaprindashvili | All 28 games, input by me, from a bulletin supplied by Stewart Reuben (for which many thanks). |
| 02/05/06 | Lloyds Bank Masters 1986 | S Agdestein | 141 games from the bulletin, input by Steve Giddins - many thanks. |
| 02/05/06 | Lewisham International 1984 | M Hebden, GJ de Boer | 111 games from the bulletin, input by Steve Giddins - many thanks. |
| 02/05/06 | Southend Easter Tournaments 2006 | James Plaskett, etc | 303 games, including 28 from the Jack Speigel Memorial tournament, 232 from the Southend Open, and 28 and 15 from the two Southend Golden Jubilee events. From the Southend Chess Club website - http://www.southendchessclub.co.uk/ - my thanks to Howard Grist. |
| 02/05/06 | West of England Championship 2006 | Matthew Turner | 84 games from the Chess Devon website (http://www.chessdevon.co.uk/HTML/News/wecu/woecu.htm). My thanks to Bill Frost. |
| 02/05/06 | 4NCL 2005/6, Div.1 - All Games | Wood Green | 528 games, from the 4NCL website - http://www.4ncl.co.uk/ - my thanks to Peter Sowray and the 4NCL games inputters. |
| 02/05/06 | Gibraltar Masters 2006 | Kiril Georgiev | 629 games, keyed in by me and Sean Hewitt at the Gibtelecom Masters. |
| 02/05/06 | Coulsdon Easter International 2006 | D Gormally, C McNab, T Rendle | 45 games from the CCF website (http://www.ccfworld.com/Chess/Results/2006-04-13_International.htm) - my thanks to Scott Freeman. |
| 02/05/06 | Cotswold Open 2004 | Steve Berry | 65 games, from the Cotswold website. |
| 28/04/06 | Welsh Championship 2006 | John Trevelyan | All 96 games. Thanks to John Trevelyan for sending. |
| 11/03/06 | Varsity Oxford-Cambridge 2006 | Oxford | All eight games, keyed in by me |