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BRITBASE |
 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 |
| 27/08/08 | Leicester All-Play-Alls A and B 2007 | Pablo Padilla (A); Martin Burrows (B) | All 90 games from these two ten-player all-play-alls, held in Littlethorpe, Leicester. Thanks to Sean Hewitt for the games. |
| 25/08/08 | 1st Jessie Gilbert Celebration International, Coulsdon 2008 | Aleksandar Berelovich | All 221 games. Thanks to Keith Selby and Scott Freeman. |
| 25/08/08 | 6th Staunton Memorial 2008 | Michael Adams | All 66 games. |
| 23/08/08 | British Championship 2008 | Stuart Conquest (after a play-off with Keith Arkell) | All 374 games, plus 2 play-off games, courtesy of the bulletin team at the congress - many thanks. Note (19.08.08): the result of the game Goodger-Auckland (round 10) has been amended to ½-½ (it had been incorrectly recorded as 1-0). Amended 23/08/08: Peter Shaw kindly provided corrections of score errors in three of his games, versus S Berry (round 2), C Storey (round 4) and L Davis (round 10). |
| 14/07/08 | Irish Open Championships 2008 | Alex Baburin, Alon Greenfeld | All 138 games. |
| 14/07/08 | Scottish Championships 2008 | Jan Markos, Tautvydas Vedrickas (Alan Tate took the Scottish title) | All 254 games. |
| 14/07/08 | 5th South Wales International 2008 | Normunds Miezis, Stewart Haslinger | All 195 games, kindly supplied by Jack Rudd. |
| 18/06/08 | Coulsdon Easter International 2008 | Bogdan Lalic | All 45 games of the Coulsdon Easter International, held in April, plus the 45 games of the subsidiary event. |
| 18/06/08 | Coulsdon Xmas Internationals 2007 | Colin McNab (A) and Augustin Madan (B) | All 157 games from two IM norm tournaments held at Coulsdon Chess Fellowship shortly before Xmas, plus the games of two minor events. My thanks to Scott Freeman for supplying the games. |
| 17/06/08 | Yeovil Open 2008 | Matthew Turner, Chris Beaumont | All 42 games of the open, plus 49 from the intermediate and 46 from the Minor. My thanks to Jack Rudd for sending the games. |
| 08/06/08 | Middx Centenary / Pesonen Memorial 2007 | Sussex | All six games played in this correspondence match between Middlesex and Sussex, which was to celebrate Middlesex's centenary and also to commemorate Finnish-born Sussex player Erkki Pesonen (1930-2006). My thanks to John Dodgson for the games and information. |
| 01/06/08 | Frome Open 2008 | Keith Arkell | All 53 games, input by Dave Tipper and sent to me by Bill Frost (for which many thanks). |
| 28/05/08 | Haringay Masters 1988 | Hodgson / Murey | All 81 games. These games have been previously published on ChessBase but with one significant error. The game Orr-Andruet score has now been corrected, based on the score found on the 'Starbase 4.56' database. My thanks to Andy Ansel for pointing out this anomaly. |
| 12/05/08 | BCF-ch 1985 Edinburgh | Jonathan Speelman | All 418 games, keyed in by me from the bulletin, some years ago. Ken Norman has pointed out that the 'K Richardson' in the bulletin was Kevin D (not Keith B). |
| 01/05/08 | London Central YMCA 1976 | Max Fuller | An 11-player, all-play-all tournament used to generate FIDE ratings for some of the players (who included David Rumens and Nigel Povah). Thanks to Ray Cannon for keying in the games and sending me the file. |
| 15/04/08 | Brentwood International 2008 | Jonathan Rowson, Odion Aikhoje | All 98 games, from the official website. |
| 07/04/08 | Some corrections and additions: 1) Liverpool op 2007 - three game scores amended (Glud-RC Cannon, Kaufman-RC Cannon, Carleton-RC Cannon) and the download amended to show rounds 8 and 9 correctly; 2) Blackpool Open 2008: two game scores amended: Radovanovic - RJ Cannon and Muter- RC Cannon. |
My thanks to Ray Cannon for sending corrected game scores and pointing out that Liverpool 2007 was short of rounds 8 and 9 on the website. | |
| 28/03/08 | West of England Championship 2008 | Russell James (Ian Thompson takes WECU title) | 71 games from this tournament, kindly sent by Bill Frost. Bill tells me that some of the first round scoresheets went missing though some of the game scores have been rescued. |
| 27/03/08 | Blackpool Open 2008 | Alexandre Dgebuadze | All 161 games keyed in by Steve Giddins. I have added byes and an unavailable score so that a complete crosstable can be generated. Note that I have corrected two results from the games file which appears on the Blackpool website - correct results should be, round 2, Hagesaether ½-½ Merriman and, round 3, Foord 1-0 Lund. Official website. |
| 27/03/08 | Southend - Jack Speigel Memorial 2008 | David Howell | All 28 games, from the Southend Congress website. |
| 26/03/08 | 54th Welsh Championship 2008 | James Cobb and Leighton Williams | All 101 games, plus the 103 games played in the Tom Weston Major and 44 games played in the John Bishop Minor. My thanks to John Thornton for supplying the games. |
| 12/03/08 | Gibraltar Masters 2008 | Hikaru Nakamura, after a tie-break from Bu Xiangzhi | All 997 games, input by the Gibtelecom website team (Sean Hewitt, Zeljka Malobabic, Andrew Smith and me). |
| 12/03/08 | Gibraltar Challengers/Amateurs 2008 | Four separate events | All 533 games, input by the Gibtelecom website team. I input all the Amateur tournament games. |
| 12/03/08 | Hastings Masters 2007/8 | Malahatko, Mamedov, Neverov | All 519 games, from the official website. |
| 12/03/08 | Guernsey Open 2007 | Tiger Hillarp Persson | All 247 games, input by Arthur Brameld (I think). |
| 08/03/08 | Varsity Oxford-Cambridge 2008 | Drawn 4-4 | All eight games input by me. |
| 06/03/08 | East Devon Premier 2008 | Dominic Mackle | All 75 games from the tournament held in Exeter over the weekend of 29 February to 2 March. Many thanks to Bill Frost for sending the games. |
| 06/03/08 | English Senior Championship 2008 | Andrew Whiteley | All 102 games from the inaugural English Senior (Over 60) Championship, held in Dovedale in the Peak District of Derbyshire at the end of January. My thanks to Steve Burke for sending the games and also to Neil Graham for other information sent. |
| 06/03/08 | Beacon Senior 2007 | John Dodgson / Andrew Footner | All 130 games from this over-60s tournament held in Exmouth in November 2007. My thanks to Bill Frost for sending the games. |
| 06/03/08 | Beacon Junior 2007 | Michael Yeo | All 27 games from this tournament held in Exmouth. 'Junior' in this context means 'over-50'. My thanks to Bill Frost for sending the games. |
| 06/03/08 | Torbay Open 2007 | Steve Dilleigh / David Littlejohns | All 58 games, kindly sent by Bill Frost (for which many thanks). The tournament was held in Torquay in November 2007. |
| 04/12/07 | Hastings Premier page reformatted | - | The Hastings page has been reformatted, with tournaments grouped by decade and DGT viewers provided for all games. One game (Smejkal-Clarke, Hastings 1968/69) corrected to show Smejkal winning with White and not Black. My thanks to John Blackstone for bringing this to my attention. |
| 21/10/07 | Dorset Open 2007 | John Anderson | All 51 games (and 31 byes), kindly supplied by Bill Frost. |
| 20/10/07 | Monarch Isle of Man 2007 | Bartel, Yakovich, Kobalia, Golod, Roiz, Efimenko | All 389 games, keyed in by me. |
| 23/09/09 | Paignton Premier 2007 | Keith Arkell | All 141 games, kindly supplied by Bill Frost. |
| 23/09/07 | Monarch Isle Of Man U175 2006 | Nick Burton, David Twitchell | All 55 games from the 2006 Monarch Assurance Tony Bridson (Under 175 grade) tournament, kindly supplied by Jeffrey Heath. |
| 10/09/07 | UK vs China, Liverpool 2007 | China | All 48 games from this match. Thanks to Dave Clayton, Steve Giddins and Steve Connor. |
| 10/09/07 | Liverpool op 2007 | D Fridman | All 389 games from the open event which ran alongside the UK-China match. Thanks to Dave Clayton, Steve Giddins and Steve Connor. |
| 02/09/07 | BCF Major Open 2002 | A Greet / E Prokopchuk | 189 games from the 2002 Major Open in Torquay. Thanks to Rudy van Kemenade for sending. |
| 01/09/07 | Coulsdon Autumn International 2007 | Lars Stark, Colin McNab | All 45 games of the tournament, plus 39 from the Challenger's section. Lars Stark and Jovica Radovanovic achieved IM norms. Thanks to Scott Freeman. |
| 28/08/07 | IBCA European Blind Championship 2007 | Jaroslav Olsar | All 341 games, thanks to Dave Clayton and the Braille Chess Association website. Played in Durham from 14-23 August. |
| 19/08/07 | Staunton Memorial, Simpsons 2007 | Michael Adams | All 66 games, keyed in by Steve Giddins - many thanks. |
| 19/08/07 | Croydon Junior Training 1965 | [not known] | 20 games from two eight-player, four-round swiss tournaments, apparently played at Trinity School, Croydon. Keyed in by Andy Ansel from contemporary bulletins (possibly produced by Ray Keene). Players include the late Simon Webb, his brother Roger and other strong junior players of the era. Pure nostalgia for the over-50s... |
| 12/08/07 | British Championship 2007 | Jacob Aagaard | All 374 games, input by Jack Rudd and posted on the ECF website. |
| 07/08/07 | British Championship 1948 | RJ Broadbent | 15 complete games, plus 51 fragments and skeleton games from the 1948 British Championship, held at the Bishopsgate Institute in London (the last time the championship was held in the nation's capital city). The tournament was particularly interesting for BH Wood's high-scoring start of 6½/7 followed by only ½/4 in the final run-in. There is an interesting commentary on this championship by Leonard Barden in the BCM Blog. If anyone has more gamescores from this championship, I would be grateful to receive them. Later note: Morry-Milner-Barry added 07/08/07 (thanks to Andy Ansel) |
| 27/07/07 | 4th South Wales International 2007 | Marat Dzhumaev | All 208 games, kindly supplied by Jack Rudd - official website. Correction (27/07/07) made to the Round 1 game J.Gilbert-J. Jones (0-1) - which was actually J.Jones-J.Gilbert (0-1) (i.e. colours reversed) |
| 26/07/07 | Middlesex v Young England 2007 | Middlesex | All 81 games of this Scheveningen-format event. My thanks to Simon Spivack. Played to celebrate Middlesex County Chess Association's centenary. Official website. |
| 26/07/07 | Bath British Isles Zonal 1987 | Jonathan Speelman / Susan Arkell (women's zonal) | All 55 games, plus 15 games from the Women's Zonal and a the two-game play-off. Thanks to Steve Giddins for keying the games and Stewart Reuben for the loan of the bulletin. |
| 25/07/07 | Lloyds Bank Masters 1983 | Yuri Razuvaev | 130 games from the 7th Lloyds Bank Masters, keyed in by Steve Giddins, bulletin loaned by Stewart Reuben (many thanks to both). Mega Database 2007 claims to have 20 games from this event but they do not all match the bulletin (for example they have the game Hartston-Richardson, but the download here has all nine of his games and it doesn't include a game against Richardson). Gert Ligterink tells me that this game was from the ARC Young Masters tournament of the same year, so it would appear that Mega Database 2007 has some of the Lloyds and ARC games muddled up. |
| 19/07/07 | Scottish Championship 2007 | Andrew Muir | All 45 games, from the official website |
| 13/07/07 | Irish Open Championship 2007 | Nick Pert and Mark Hebden. Brian Kelly and Stephen Brady shared the Irish title. | 224 games, supplied by Mark Orr and Ian Doyle. |
| 09/07/07 | London Phillips & Drew / GLC Kings 1984 | Anatoly Karpov | All 91 games of one of the strongest tournaments ever held in Britain (probably only Nottingham 1936 and Hastings 1895 rival it in greatness). It has been available on commercial databases for some time, but I have added round numbers and dates, plus details of sealed moves and resumptions. A couple of very minor errors were picked up in the revision. Scores: 1 Karpov 9/13, 2-3 Chandler, Polugaevsky 8, 4 Timman 7½, 5-6 Ribli, Seirawan 7, 7-8 Korchnoi, Vaganian 6½, 9-11 Andersson, Miles, Speelman 5½, 12-14 Mestel, Nunn, Torre 5. |
| 29/06/07 | Yeovil Open 2007 | Matthew Turner, James Cobb | All 36 games from the open, plus 152 from subsidiary events. Many thanks to Jack Rudd for sending the games. Some are annotated by him. Matthew Turner and James Cobb shared first place with 4/5, ahead of Paul Helbig on 3½. |
| 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. |