1904 British Chess Championship, 22 August - 3 September 1904 • »1905

1904 British Chess Championship		Draw No.	Residence	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Total
1	William Ewart Napier	6	Kent	b10-	w5+	b4=	w6+	b3=	w12+	b11+	b8+	w7+	b9+	w2=	8½
2	Henry Ernest Atkins	7	Leicester	w9+	w10+	b5=	w4=	b6-	w3+	b12+	b7+	w11+	w8+	b1=	8½
3	Joseph Henry Blackburne	1	London	w12+	b11=	w7+	b8=	w1=	b2-	w10=	w4+	b5=	b6+	w9+	7½
4	George Edward Horton Bellingham	10	Dudley	w7+	b8-	w1=	b2=	w10+	b5-	b9+	b3-	w6+	w12+	b11+	7
5	Reginald Pryce Michell	9	London	w8+	b1-	w2=	b10=	w9-	w4+	b6-	b12+	w3=	w11+	b7+	6½
6	Francis Joseph Lee	11	London	w11+	b7-	w8=	b1-	w2+	b10+	w5+	w9=	b4-	w3-	b12+	6
7	Herbert Levi Jacobs	4	London	b4-	w6+	b3-	w12+	b11=	b9-	w8+	w2-	b1-	b10+	w5-	4½
8	Creassey Edward Cecil Tattersall	5	London	b5-	w4+	b6=	w3=	b12+	w11-	b7-	w1-	w9=	b2-	w10+	4½
9	Rev. Wilfred Charles Palmer	12	Manchester	b2-	w12-	w10+	b11=	b5+	w7+	w4-	b6=	b8=	w1-	b3-	4½
10	Dr. Ronald Cadell Macdonald	8	Linlithgow	w1+	b2-	b9-	w5=	b4-	w6-	b3=	b11+	w12+	w7-	b8-	4
11	Arthur John Mackenzie	3	Birmingham	b6-	w3=	b12=	w9=	w7=	b8+	w1-	w10-	b2-	b5-	w4-	3
12	Capt. Claude Herries Chepmell	2	Plymouth	b3-	b9+	w11=	b7-	w8-	b1-	w2-	w5-	b10-	b4-	w6-	1½

The draw order for this and other 1904 congress all-play-all events is derived from what appears in the press (e.g. Daily Telegraph & Courier, 23 August 1904, The Field, 27 August and 3 September 1904) showing a partially completed crosstable in draw order – pairings for each round can be derived using the details shown below.

1904 British Chess Championship		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Total
1	William Ewart Napier	&;	½	½	½	1	1	1	1	1	0	1	1	8½
2	Henry Ernest Atkins	½	&;	1	½	½	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	8½
3	Joseph Henry Blackburne	½	0	&;	1	½	1	1	½	1	½	½	1	7½
4	George Edward Horton Bellingham	½	½	0	&;	0	1	1	0	1	1	1	1	7
5	Reginald Pryce Michell	0	½	½	1	&;	0	1	1	0	½	1	1	6½
6	Francis Joseph Lee	0	1	0	0	1	&;	0	½	½	1	1	1	6
7	Herbert Levi Jacobs	0	0	0	0	0	1	&;	1	0	1	½	1	4½
8	Creassey Edward Cecil Tattersall	0	0	½	1	0	½	0	&;	½	1	0	1	4½
9	Rev. Wilfred Charles Palmer	0	0	0	0	1	½	1	½	&;	1	½	0	4½
10	Dr. Ronald Cadell Macdonald	1	0	½	0	½	0	0	0	0	&;	1	1	4
11	Arthur John Mackenzie	0	0	½	0	0	0	½	1	½	0	&;	½	3
12	Capt. Claude Herries Chepmell	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	½	&;	1½

• Note on the line-up: "Mr. [Hector William] Shoosmith, however, retired at the eleventh hour, and his place was taken by Mr. A[rthur]. J[ohn]. Mackenzie of Birmingham." (Sheffield Daily Telegraph, Tuesday 23 August 1904)
• Play: 7pm-10pm on the first day, thereafter 10am-1pm, with an evening session of 7pm-10pm.
• Playing schedule: rds 1-5: Monday 22 August - Friday 26 August; rds 6-11: Monday 29 August - Saturday 3 September (with two games played out of sequence by private arrangement)
• Time limit: 30 moves in 1½ hours in the first session, and in the second (morning session), thereafter 20 moves per hour.
• Prizes: £60, £30, £20, £10. Non-prizewinners received £1 per win.
• Eligibility: British subjects. (The entries of Teichmann and van Vliet were not accepted. Morning Post - Tuesday 23 August 1904)

Play-Off Match (January 1905, Hastings)

1904 British Championship Play-Off		1	2	3	4	Total
1	William Ewart Napier	½	1	½	½	2½
2	Henry Ernest Atkins	½	0	½	½	1½

The prize winners were as follows British Championship.—The first and second prizes were divided between Messrs. H. E. Atkins and W. E. Napier, each receiving £45. Mr. Atkins also took the Amateur Championship Gold Medal and title of British Amateur Champion. His score against the other amateurs was 7½ points, against 7 points scored by Mr. Napier. The tie for the British Championship will be decided by a contest of four games. The match will be played during the coming Christmas holidays. Mr. J. H. Blackburne took third prize, £20, and Mr. Bellingham the fourth £10. The non-prize winners received £1 for each game won, and the aggregate sum given in this way amounted to £25. This arrangement was much appreciated by the competitors.

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1904 British Ladies Chess Championship • »1905

1904 British Ladies Chess Championship		Draw No	Residence	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Total
1	Miss Kate Belinda Finn	9	London	&;	1	1	1	½	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	10½
2	Mrs Gertrude Alison Beatrice Anderson (née Field)	4	London	0	&;	1	1	0	1	½	1	1	1	0	1	7½
3	Mrs Frances Dunn Herring (née Gwilliam)	11	Reading	0	0	&;	0	1	1	1	1	½	1	1	1	7½
4	Miss Grace Ellis (later Curling)	3	London	0	0	1	&;	1	0	0	1	½	1	1	1	6½
5	Mrs Emily Margaret Stevens (née Dobell)	2	Hastings	½	1	0	0	&;	0	1	1	1	1	0	1	6½
6	Mrs Helen Eliza Sidney (née Truelove)1	12	Hove	0	0	0	1	1	&;	1	0	1	0	1	1	6
7	Miss Edith Mary Ann Tapsell (later Michell)	8	Redhill	0	½	0	1	0	0	&;	0	1	1	1	1	5½
8	Miss Georgiana Watson	10	Hastings	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	&;	1	0	½	1	4½
9	Mrs Christina Maria Chapman (née Edwards)2	1	Ogbourne St Andrew	0	0	½	½	0	0	0	0	&;	1	1	1	4
10	Miss Fanny Harriette Hallaway	7	Hastings	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	&;	½	1	3½
11	Mrs Rhoda Annie Bowles (née Knott)	6	London	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	½	0	½	&;	0	3
12	Mrs Seymour	5	London	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	&;	1

Ladies' Championship.—Gold Championship Medal and first prize of £10, Miss Kate B Finn, London; Mrs. Herring and Mrs. Anderson tied tor second and third (3rd prize £7 10s and 4th £5, thus £6.25 each); Mrs. Stevens and Miss Ellis tied for third and fourth (4th prize was £2 10s, so they each received £1.25).

1. Mrs Sidney has proved to be elusive in BMD records as regards her forenames and d.o.b. She seems have been born Eliza Truelove in Newdigate in Surrey on 23 July 1858, but later assumes a first name of Helen or Ellen, giving her second name variously as Eliza, Elise or Elizabeth, and varying her d.o.b. by a few years. She married Paul Sidney (b 1830) in Brighton in 1883. She died (as Helen Eliza Sidney) on 9 December 1939 in Hove, Sussex.
2. Mrs Christina Maria Chapman, born 14 December 1843, Wexford, Ireland, m. John Furlong Chapman (1829-84), in 1866, Worksop. Died 13 October 1917, Walmer, Kent.

The first British Ladies' Champion, Kate Finn, as she was in 1897 (photo colorised by John Saunders)

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1904 First Class Sections (1st prizes £15; 2nd prizes £7 10s)

• the First Class sections consisted of ten players and were paired as shown below.
• the playing schedule for the First Class sections appears to have been Monday 22 August - Friday 26 August (rds 1-5) and then Monday 29 August to Thursday 1 September (rds 6-9)

1904 First Class A

1904 BCF First Class A		Draw No	Residence	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total
1	William Hewison Gunston	3	Cambridge	&;	½	½	½	1	1	1	1	1	1	7½
2	Frank Brown	7	Dudley	½	&;	0	1	1	0	1	1	1	1d	6½
3	Horace Fabian Cheshire	5	Hastings	½	1	&;	0	0	1	1	1	1	1d	6½
4	Philip Walsingham Sergeant	9	London	½	0	1	&;	0	½	½	1	1	1	5½
5	Oscar Conrad Müller	2	London	0	0	1	1	&;	0	0	1	1	1	5
6	Bernard Dinwoody Wilmot	6	Birmingham	0	1	0	½	1	&;	½	0	1	1d	5
7	John Crum	1	Glasgow	0	0	0	½	1	½	&;	½	1	1	4½
8	Edward Douglas Fawcett	8	London	0	0	0	0	0	1	½	&;	½	1	3
9	Edwin Joseph Brooks	10	London	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	½	&;	1d	1½
10	Francis Albert Joyce	4	Isle of Wight	0	0d	0d	0	0	0d	0	0	0d	&;	0

1904 First Class B

1904 BCF First Class B		Draw No	Residence	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total
1	Charles Hugh Sherrard	9	Cairo	&;	½	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	6½
2	George Edward Wainwright snr	1	Surbiton	½	&;	1	1	0	0	1	1	1	1	6½
3	Edward Empson Middleton jnr	6	Hastings	1	0	&;	½	0	1	1	1	½	1	6
4	William Patrick MacBean	8	London	1	0	½	&;	1	½	1	0	½	1	5½
5	Frederick William Flear	3	St Albans	0	1	1	0	&;	1	0	½	½	1	5
6	Heinrich Arthur Kirschner1	7	[see note]	0	1	0	½	0	&;	1	0	1	½	4
7	Harry Rosenbaum2	5	[see note]	0	0	0	0	1	0	&;	1	1	1	4
8	James Mortimer	4	London	0	0	0	1	½	1	0	&;	1	0	3½
9	Arthur Ernest Tietjen	2	London	0	0	½	½	½	0	0	0	&;	1	2½
10	Rev. John Francis Welsh	10	Warminster	0	0	0	0	0	½	0	1	0	&;	1½

1. H Kirschner was resident in London (according to BCM, 1904 p389), Hastings (according to the Hastings and St Leonards Observer, 13 August 1904, the Hastings & St Leonards Advertiser, 18 August 1904, and the Southport Visiter of 16 August 1904) but 'Liepsic' [Leipzig] according to the Western Daily Press, 23 August 1904. The latter probably points to this being the noted problemist Heinrich Arthur Kirschner, though the name appeared in all contemporary UK references as H Kirschner and there were a couple of people of this name resident in the UK. JS
2. For biographical details, see further down the page. Harry Rosenbaum's residence was variously listed as 'London' (BCM 1904, p389, Southport Visiter, 30 August 1904), 'Chiswick' (Hastings & St Leonards Advertiser, 18 August 1904) and 'Manchester' (Manchester Guardian, 27 August 1904). He was domiciled in Manchester in the early 1900s. His address in 1902 (gleaned from a letter he wrote to The Jewish World mentioning his chess activity) was 74 Cheetham Hill Road, Manchester and this tallies with a 1901 census record.

1904 First Class C

1904 BCF First Class C		Draw No	Residence	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total
1	George William Richmond	9	London	&;	½	1	1	1	1	1	1	1d	1	8½
2	Paul Saladin Leonhardt	3	London	½	&;	1	1	1	1	1	1	1d	1	8½
3	Francis Edward Hamond	6	London	0	0	&;	1	1	0	1	½	1	1	5½
4	Harry Holmes	2	Liverpool	0	0	0	&;	1	½	1	1	1d	1	5½
5	Dr. Robert Dunstan	1	London	0	0	0	0	&;	1	1	1	1d	1	5
6	J Wilson	5	Lincoln	0	0	1	½	0	&;	1	½	1	1	5
7	Dr. James Ernest Manlove	8	Hastings	0	0	0	0	0	0	&;	1	1	1	3
8	Isaac Ebenezer Mannington	10	Hastings	0	0	½	0	0	½	0	&;	0	1	2
9	Rudolf Johannes Loman	7	London	0d	0d	0	0d	0d	0	0	1	&;	0d	1
10	Patrick Humphrey Sullivan	4	London	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1d	&;	1

First Class Amateurs.—It was intended that the section winners should playoff for the following division of the first prize money (£45): £20, £15, and £10, but owing to want of time it was eventually decided that the arrangement of £15 and £7 10s. to each section should be adhered to, and the distribution was therefore as follows: Section A—first prize, £15, Mr. W. H. Gunston; Mr. H. F. Cheshire took second prize £7 10s., after a tie with Mr. Frank Brown, who could not stay to play off, and resigned to Mr. Cheshire after a private arrangement respecting the prize money. Section B—first prize, £15 Mr. C. H. Sherrard and Mr. G. E. Wainwright tied with points, but Mr. Sherrard won the deciding game and gained the first prize, Mr. Wainwright taking £7 10s. In Section C there was a tie between Mr. G. W. Richmond and Mr. P. S. Leonhardt with 8½ each. Mr. Richmond won the deciding contest and took the premier reward, £15; Mr. Leonhardt, £7 10s.

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1904 Second Class Sections (1st prizes £10; 2nd prizes £5 - but see note to Second Class C)

1904 Second Class A

1904 BCF Second Class A		Draw No	Residence	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Total
1	Thomas Joseph Edwards1	8	Bristol	&;	1	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	8
2	Frederick Winter Markwick	6	Leyton	0	&;	1	0	½	1	1	1	1	1	1d	7½
3	Joseph Algernon Woollard2	10	Bradford	1	0	&;	1	1	0	1	½	1	1	1	7½
4	Leonard Illingworth	1	Acton	1	1	0	&;	0	1	½	1	1	0	1d	6½
5	Cecil Perfect Hammond	3	Hither Green	0	½	0	1	&;	1	1	½	1	1	0	6
6	J(oseph?) N(ereus?) Smith	11	Marlow	0	0	1	0	0	&;	1	1	0	1	1	5
7	Rev. William Ernest Evill	4	Canterbury	0	0	0	½	0	0	&;	½	1	1	1d	4
8	Sir James Howard Thornton, K.C.B.	2	Hove	0	0	½	0	½	0	½	&;	½	½	1	3½
9	Empson Edward Middleton snr	5	St Leonards	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	½	&;	0	1d	2½
10	Elias Thorniley	9	Hastings	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	½	1	&;	0	2½
11	Rev. Henry Bremridge	7	Devon	0	0d	0	0d	1	0	0d	0	0d	1	&;	2

1. Sources reporting on this tournament give mostly T E Edwards (Bristol) but a search of Bristolian newspaper sources finds multiple instances of T J Edwards being a leading Bristol player in this era, drawing a blank on T E Edwards. See the record for Thomas Joseph Edwards at chessgames.com.
2. Jeremy Gaige's Chess Personalia has a middle name of 'Alonzo' for J A Woollard but all the existing evidence (including one of the works referred to by Gaige himself, BCM 1909, ppn 237-238) indicates that it was 'Algernon' - JS

1904 Second Class B

1904 BCF Second Class B		Draw No	Residence	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Total
1	Alfred Axtell	4	Bristol	&;	1	0	1	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	8
2	William Thomas Dickinson	7	London	0	&;	½	1	1	1	1	1	½	1	1d	8
3	Wilfred Hugh Miller Kirk	9	London	1	½	&;	1	0	0	1	1	1	1	1d	7½
4	Isidor(e) Maurice Friedberger	5	Hastings	0	0	0	&;	1	0	1	1	1	1	1d	6
5	Frank Raven Adcock	11	Norwich	1	0	1	0	&;	0	0	½	1	1	1	5½
6	William Alfred Paley-Hughes	1	Worcester	0	0	1	1	1	&;	0	½	1	0	1	5½
7	William Rowland Thomas	8	Liverpool	0	0	0	0	1	1	&;	0	1	1	1d	5
8	John Ruchon	2	St Leonards	0	0	0	0	½	½	1	&;	0	1	1	4
8	Frederick William Forrest	6	Shrewsbury	0	½	0	0	0	0	0	1	&;	1	1d	3½
10	Mrs Annie Sophia Roe	10	Putney	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	&;	½	1½
11	(Edward) Delmar Morgan	3	Copthorne	0	0d	0d	0d	0	0	0d	0	0d	½	&;	½

The entries in the second and third class amateur contests were so numerous that the committee divided the competitors in both events into sections, giving prizes to each section. The results were—Second Class Amateurs, Section A, first £10, second £5. The fighting in this section was so close between the leading players that they made a private arrangement that the winner of first prize should take £7 only, the balance, £3, being set apart to provide a third prize in the section. The prize takers came out as follows : first, Mr. T. E. Edwards; second and third, Mr. J. A. Woollard and Mr. F. W. Markwick, ex aequo. Section B—first, £10, Mr. A. Axtell; second, £5, Mr. W. T. Dickinson.

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1904 Third Class Sections (1st prizes £5; 2nd prizes £2 10s)

1904 Third Class A

1904 BCF Third Class A		Draw No	Residence	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Total
1	A(rthur?) Baker (Rev?)	7	London	&;	0	1	1	1	1	½	1	1	1	1	8½
2	Vincent Sumner Ward	1	St Leonards	1	&;	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	8
3	Gustavus S Bullock	8	Pokesdown	0	1	&;	1	0	½	1	1	1	1	1	7½
4	A Watson	2	Salisbury	0	1	0	&;	1	1	0	1	1	1	1	7
5	Prof. Robert William Genese	10	Aberystwyth	0	0	1	0	&;	1	1	1	1	1	½	6½
6	Edward Algernon Michell	11	London	0	0	½	0	0	&;	1	1	0	1	1	4½
7	Benjamin Perrott Smith	6	Hastings	½	0	0	1	0	0	&;	1	1	1	0	4½
8	R Owen	5	Hastings	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	&;	1	1	1	3
9	Miss Ellen Louisa Addison	9	Brighton	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	&;	0	1	2
10	Mrs (Emily?) Illingworth1	4	London	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	&;	1	2
11	Mrs Hannah Maria Joughin	3	London	0	0	0	0	½	0	1	0	0	0	&;	1½

¹ I'm guessing that Mrs Illingworth is the mother of the young, unmarried Leonard Illingworth (who played in Second Class A)

1904 Third Class B

1904 BCF Third Class B		Draw No	Residence	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Total
1	David Miller	5	London	&;	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1d	9
2	William Frederick Threlkeld	2	Wakefield	1	&;	½	1	½	½	1	1	½	1	1	8
3	A Geake	6	St Leonards	0	½	&;	1	1	0	1	0	½	1	1	6
4	Rev. William Henry Cockett	11	Taunton	0	0	0	&;	½	1	1	1	½	½	1d	5½
5	Mrs Robbins	1	London	0	½	0	½	&;	½	1	½	1	½	1	5½
6	George Henley Manbey	4	Southend	0	½	1	0	½	&;	0	0	1	1	1	5
7	Frank Round Pickering	9	London	0	0	0	0	0	1	&;	1	1	1	1	5
8	Mrs Selina Charity Kershaw1	7	London	0	0	1	0	½	1	0	&;	0	1	1	4½
9	A S Wilson	10	Lincoln	0	½	½	½	0	0	0	1	&;	1	1	4½
10	Mrs Frances Susanne Durlacher2	3	London	0	0	0	½	½	0	0	0	0	&;	1	2
11	Rev. Charles Hay Murray	8	Spilsby	0d	0	0	0d	0	0	0	0	0	0	&;	0

1. Maiden name Selina Charity Davie (1855-1936), m.1875 Stephen Hussey, m.1903 Joseph Kershaw.
2. Unusually Durlacher was her maiden name and her husband Edward Newton Jones (an orthopaedist and dentist), whom she married in 1876, took her surname rather than the other way round: Frances Susanne/Susanna(h) Durlacher (1853-1935).

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1904 Third Class C

1904 BCF Third Class C		Draw No	Residence	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Total
1	Francis Herbert Terrill	9	Birmingham	&;	½	1	1	1	1	0	1	1	1	1	8½
2	E Wells (Rev)	3	Salisbury	½	&;	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	7½
3	Henry Braund	2	Hastings	0	1	&;	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	7
4	John Campbell Douglas	11	Shrewsbury	0	1	1	&;	0	1	1	0	1	1	1	7
5	George Herbert Lock	10	Shrewsbury	0	0	1	1	&;	1	1	1	1	0	1	7
6	C Papworth	7	London	0	0	0	0	0	&;	1	1	1	1	1	5
7	Miss Margaret Hunt	4	Barnstaple	1	0	0	0	0	0	&;	0	1	1	1	4
8	Miss Clara Millar	5	Altrincham	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	&;	1	1	0	4
9	R H Donnelly	8	London	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	&;	1	1	2
10	Miss Alice Grace Ruchon	6	St Leonards	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	&;	1	2
11	Dr. Frederick Henry Alderson	1	Bournemouth	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	&;	1

1904 Third Class D

1904 BCF Third Class D		Draw No	Residence	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Total
1	W Collins	4	Hereford	&;	½	0	1	1	1	1	½	1	1	1	8
2	Alfred Lindsay Densham	8	Croydon	½	&;	½	½	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	7½
3	Francis James Welsh1	2	Warminster	1	½	&;	1	0	1	1	0	1	1	1	7½
4	Rev. Edward Gates	7	Kettering	0	½	0	&;	1	1	1	1	1	½	1	7
5	A H Owen	6	Birmingham	0	1	1	0	&;	1	1	0	1	1	1	7
6	Miss Marian Millar	1	Altrincham	0	0	0	0	0	&;	0	1	1	1	1	4
7	Miss M(adeline?) Rawnsley	10	Hove	0	0	0	0	0	1	&;	1	0	1	1	4
8	Maj. Francis Hooper Rawlins	9	Wolverton	½	0	1	0	1	0	0	&;	1	0	0	3½
9	F Rentoul	5	Eastbourne	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	&;	1	1	3
10	William Gordon Watson	11	Hastings	0	0	0	½	0	0	0	1	0	&;	1	2½
11	Miss Emily Hunt	3	Barnstaple	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	&;	1

¹ son of John Francis Welsh who played in First Class B

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1904 First Week Tournament

1904 BCF First Week Tournament		Draw No	Residence	1	2	3	4	5	6	Total
1	Carrick Wardhaugh	5	Glasgow	&;	1	½	1	1	1	4½
2	W S Carey	4	Leyton	0	&;	1	1	1	1	4
3	James Chandler	3	Lewes	½	0	&;	1	1	1	3½
4	Allan Lee Curling	1	Rochester	0	0	0	&;	1	1	2
5	Gilbert Henry Hadland	6	Thornton Heath	0	0	0	0	&;	1	1
6	Mrs B W Boxall	2	London	0	0	0	0	0	&;	0

First Week Tournament.—Two prizes, and £2 10s. Mr. Wardhaugh took first and Mr. Carey second.
During the fortnight there were several lightning tournaments arranged, and the prizes were furnished by the entrance fees. Messrs. C. Hammond, Napier, F. E. Hamond and Macdonald each winning a first prize.

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1904 Second Week Tournament

1904 BCF Second Week Tournament		Residence	1	2	3	4	5	6	Total
1	Arthur Emerson Mercer		&;
2	Allan Lee Curling	Rochester		&;
3					&;
4						&;
5							&;
6								&;

Nothing further yet discovered about the Second Week Tournament

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1904 Evening Play

1904 BCF Evening Play		Draw No	Residence	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Total
1	A T White	10	Hastings	&;	1	1	½	½	1	1	1	1d	1	1	1	10
2	Harold John Francis Spink Stephenson1	2	Hastings	0	&;	1	½	1	1	1	1	½	1	1	1	9
3	Edward Henry Church	1	Cambridge	0	0	&;	1	1	1	½	1	1d	1	1	1	8½
4	Charles Frederick Corke	4	Sevenoaks	½	½	0	&;	0	1	0	1	1	1	1	1d	7
5	Thomas Robert Kirkpatrick	11	Hastings	½	0	0	1	&;	0	1	1	1d	½	1	1	7
6	William Dundas Wight	3	Pentre, Glam.	0	0	0	0	1	&;	0	1	1d	1	1	1	6
7	Alfred George Ginner	12	Hastings	0	0	½	1	0	1	&;	0	0	1	1	1	5½
8	Arthur Hasnip	7	Hastings	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	&;	1d	0	1	1	4
9	Victor Owlett	9	Hastings	0d	½	0d	0	0d	0d	1	0d	&;	1	1	1	3½
10	Miss J M Thomas	8	St Leonards	0	0	0	0	½	0	0	1	0	&;	0	1	2½
11	Edward James McCormick	5	Hastings	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	&;	1	2
12	Miss M Garland	6	St Leonards	0	0	0	0d	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	&;	0

¹ BCM gives "H T Stephenson" but I'm assuming this is a typo

Evening Tournament.—First prize, £5 ; second, £3; third. £2 ; fourth, £1 7s. 6d. The winners of first three prizes were Mr. A.T White, Mr. H. S. Stephenson, and Mr. C. H. Church, in the order named. The fourth prize was divided by Mr. Corke and Mr. Kirkpatrick.

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BCF Congress: London League vs Three Unions (SCCU, NCCU, MCCU), 27 August 1904

"In the afternoon a match between the London Chess League and representatives of the Northern, Southern, and Midland Unions, 47 players a side, took place and resulted in a victory of the League by 27½ games to 19½." (The Field, 3 September 1904)

London League		27½-19½	Three Unions
1	Reginald Pryce Michell	½-½	Joseph Henry Blackburne (N)
2	Herbert Levi Jacobs	0-1	Henry Ernest Atkins (N)
3	Paul Saladin Leonhardt	1-0	Arthur John Mackenzie (M)
4	Frederick Law Anspach	0-1	Bernard Dinwoody Willmot (M)
5	George Edward Wainwright, sr	½-½	Charles Hugh Sherrard (M)
6	James Mortimer	0-1	Fred Brown (M)
7	George William Richmond	½-½	Herbert Edward Dobell (S)
8	Alfred Emery	½-½	Harry Brown Lund (N)
9	Arthur Ernest Tietjen	½-½	Dr. Harry Holmes (N)
10	Francis Edward Hamond	1-0	Frank Brown (M)
11	Philip Walsingham Sergeant	1-0	Isaac Ebenezer Mannington (S)
12	Frederick William Flear	½-½	Charles Coates (N)
13	C Nicholls	0-1	John Crum (N)
14	Henry Lewis Bowles	0-1	A (Rev. Arthur?) Baker (S)
15	William Henry Watts	1-0	William Rowland Thomas (N)
16	Dr. Robert Dunstan	1-0	Carrick Wardhaugh (N)
17	W S Carey	0-1	Rev. John Francis Welsh (S)
18	J Hill	1-0	Arthur Schomberg (S)
19	William Patrick MacBean	½-½	Ernest Godwin Spears (M)
20	A A Percival	1-0	F Sutton (S)
21	Cecil Perfect Hammond	0-1	Rev. Henry Bremridge (S)
Scores of the above 21 bds		10½-10½
Scores of the next 13 bds		9½-3½
Scores of the last 13 bds		7½-5½
Overall Score		27½-19½

Source of match info: The Field, 3 September 1904. However, there is an unresolved anomaly: we have scores of two games included in the above list, board 1, Blackburne-Michell and board 3, Leonhardt-Mackenzie, but note that the white player on board one represented the Three Unions while the white player on board 3 represented the London League. (The score exists of a third game from the match which is not included on the above list: board 34, Blanshard 0-1 Illingworth, where we can assume that white represented the Three Unions, which tallies with the Blackburne result data if standard colour alternation was observed) JS

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BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS

Harry Rosenbaum (a.k.a. Harris Moses Rosenbaum and later Harry Rowson; born 9 January 1876, Manchester - died 17 August 1951, London). Domiciled in Manchester until 1904, when he moved to London, playing for Metropolitan CC in 1904 and West London CC on a high board in 1905/06 before spemding time in the USA helping Emanuel Lasker run a chess magazine. Around this time he and other members of his family changed their surname to 'Rowson'. Whilst there he became involved in the film industry. In around 1911 he returned to the UK, founded the Ideal Film Company (which produced a silent biopic of the life of David Lloyd George which was suppressed and thought lost until rediscovered in the 1990s) with his brother Simon and worked as a producer in the 1920s and 1930s.

BCM obituary, October 1951: "It is with great regret that the death, on August 17th, of Mr. Harry Rowson is reported. Harry Rowson's friends in the chess world, both in the U.S.A. and here, literally numbered hundreds. He was, to us all, not merely a chess-player. He represented an era in the game and his loss cannot be replaced. At the time of his death, at seventy-five, he was youthful and ageless. As a player he was little short of master class and to the very end his playing strength scarcely diminished. He possessed a quality that few chess-players have—namely, that of the champion "kibbitzer" and he could also be a silent onlooker. He spent countless enjoyable hours watching others "at work." In his earlier years he had acted as the secretary to the late Dr. Emmanuel [sic] Lasker and the unrecorded anecdotes of the game that Harry Rowson could have told are now, unhappily, untold. My first meeting with Harry Rowson was many years ago at the St. George's Cafe, in St. Martin's Lane. I recall a large jovial gentleman playing with a chess professional and saying, "isn't it marvellous how one man can see so many things in so little time.'' A remark that had its parallel in a speech by Mr. Churchill years later in connection with the R.A.F. The passing of this great character and personality leaves us all the sadder for we know that we shall not meet his like again.—J. S. [the aforementioned JS is not me! Identity of the 1951 obituarist not known - John Saunders]

Rosenbaum/Rowson's nephew Geoffrey Harold Rowson (1910-1943) won the 1927 British Under-18 Championship. I researched him in 2016 and recorded the information at the English Chess Forum. Harry Rowson's eldest son, Sefton Wilfred David Rowson (1918-2010) changed his name to Shabtai Rosenne and became an Israeli professor of international law and diplomat.

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Biographical note (added 10 Oct 2017 and edited 10 January 2021): Bernard Dinwoody Wilmot, who scored 5/11 in First Class A, was to acquire a certain notoriety. (Note, this is his full, real name, but his surname was regularly spelt 'Willmott' in a chess context. 'Dinwiddy' in the press cutting below seems to be a typo.) In November 1907 he was sentenced to five years' penal servitude for setting fire to his premises in Regent Place, Birmingham (ref. Birmingham Daily Gazette, 26 November 1907 - further details of the case made be found in Birmingham Daily Gazette, 17 October 1907). In 1911 he was still serving this sentence in Maidstone Prison. He was born in West Bromwich in 1864, and died in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1949. Wilmot was a strong player, amongst his successes being a win against HE Atkins at the Craigside tournament, Llandudno, in January 1899 (ref. Nottinghamshire Guardian - Saturday 21 January 1899).

Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser - Wednesday 02 October 1907

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All-Play-All Pairings used at the 1904-1947 BCF Congresses

For 12-Player All-Play-Alls:

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6
Rd 1	1 v 2	11 v 3	10 v 4	9 v 5	8 v 6	7 v 12
Rd 2	3 v 1	7 v 8	6 v 9	5 v 10	4 v 11	12 v 2
Rd 3	1 v 4	2 v 3	9 v 7	10 v 6	11 v 5	12 v 8
Rd 4	5 v 1	4 v 2	8 v 9	7 v 10	6 v 11	3 v 12
Rd 5	1 v 6	2 v 5	3 v 4	10 v 8	11 v 7	9 v 12
Rd 6	7 v 1	6 v 2	5 v 3	9 v 10	8 v 11	12 v 4
Rd 7	1 v 8	2 v 7	3 v 6	4 v 5	11 v 9	12 v 10
Rd 8	9 v 1	8 v 2	7 v 3	6 v 4	10 v 11	5 v 12
Rd 9	1 v 10	2 v 9	3 v 8	4 v 7	5 v 6	11 v 12
Rd 10	11 v 1	10 v 2	9 v 3	8 v 4	7 v 5	12 v 6
Rd 11	1 v 12	2 v 11	3 v 10	4 v 9	5 v 8	6 v 7

First number in each pairing has White. The draw order for all-play-all events at this congress is derived from what appears in the press (e.g. Daily Telegraph & Courier, 23 August 1904, The Field, 27 August and 3 September 1904) showing a partially completed crosstable in draw order – pairings for each round can be derived using the details in the above table. My understanding is that these pairings were used for all BCF Congress all-play-all tournaments from the first one in 1904 up to and including 1947. Further details here.

For 10-player all-play-alls, the pairings appear to be as follows. I'm less sure of the colours of games involving player no.10. Where colours of games were found to be the other way around, the pairing is marked in red. JS

Round	1	2	3	4	5
Rd 1	1 v 2	9 v 3	8 v 4	7 v 5	6 v 10
Rd 2	3 v 1	5 v 8	4 v 9	6 v 7	10 v 2
Rd 3	1 v 4	2 v 3	9 v 5	8 v 6	10 v 7
Rd 4	5 v 1	4 v 2	6 v 9	7 v 8	3 v 10
Rd 5	1 v 6	2 v 5	3 v 4	9 v 7	8 v 10
Rd 6	7 v 1	6 v 2	5 v 3	8 v 9	10 v 4
Rd 7	1 v 8	2 v 7	3 v 6	4 v 5	9 v 10
Rd 8	9 v 1	8 v 2	7 v 3	6 v 4	10 v 5
Rd 9	1 v 10	2 v 9	3 v 8	4 v 7	5 v 6

 

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File Updated

Date	Notes
24 August 2015	Seven more games added, many thanks to Brian Denman.
3 September 2015	Two more subsidiary event games (Fawcett-Wilmott and Mortimer-Kirschner) added.
8 September 2015	Two more subsidiary games added, many thanks to Gerard Killoran and Brian Denman.
23 February 2016	Two more games added - Anderson 0-1 Finn (Women's Championship) and Leonhardt 1-0 Hamond (First Class C). Thanks to Gerard Killoran.
10 October 2017	Blackburne 1-0 Jacobs, Round 3, amended to include additional moves found in Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, 27 August 1904. Added three new games: Brooks 0-1 Wilmot, Round 1, First Class A; Muller 0-1 Gunston, First Class A; and Flear 1-0 Welsh, Round 4, First Class B. Biographical details re BD Wilmot/Willmott added.
03 July 2017	Final four moves added to the incomplete first game of the Napier-Atkins play-off match
21 July 2017	Score of Tattersall-Blackburne (Rd 4) added.
3 May 2018	Four more games from subsidiary competitions added: Sherrard-Wainwright (First Class A), Tietjen-Rosenbaum (First Class A), Axtell-Adcock (Second Class B), Forrest-Adcock (Second Class B). My thanks to Gerard Killoran. On Gerard's advice I have also replaced the crosstables from The Field (which proved to be faulty) with those from BCM (which seem to be more accurate and have useful extra data showing where players came from).
28 February 2019	Added 1 game: Bowles-Stevens, British Women's Championship, Rd 6. Many thanks to Brian Denman.
27 February 2020	Added 1 game: Hallaway-Tapsell/Michell* (Rd 2, women's championship). Many thanks to Brian Denman. * I have recorded this as Edith Michell rather than her unmarried name Tapsell, to avoid confusion.
9 November 2020	I have replaced all the crosstable scans with properly typeset ones, enabling me to show full names, where available, and also to place the players in score order, rather than draw order as they appeared in BCM and other contemporary accounts. Nevertheless I have retained the draw order data as this can be useful in working out when a games was played. I have also included a 12-player pairings chart, which applies to all BCF all-play-all tournaments from 1904 to 1947. Not all 1904 tournaments consisted of 12 players, however; I am assuming that the pairings chart works for 11 or fewer players as well but can't be entirely certain of this.
14 April 2023	Added one game: C.Hammond 1-0 L.Illingworth, Second Class A. Many thanks to Brian Denman for sending the score.
20 March 2024	Added the game E.Michell/Tapsell 0-1 K.Finn (Women's Ch'ship, rd 4), contributed by Richard James via the English Chess Forum. Many thanks, Richard.
31 May 2025	Added the game J Manlove 0-1 G Richmond (First Class C, rd 6). Many thanks to Brian Denman for sending the game.
16 August 2026	Added the game H Kirschner 0-1 F Flear (First Class B) - many thanks to Gerard Killoran for submitting it. I have also added the games of the London League vs Three Unions match held on the middle Saturday and applied a substantial number of textual corrections and additions, including biographical information relating to Harry Rosenbaum/Rowson and H Kirschner, round numbers and dates for some of the games played in subsidiary sections, and newspaper references.