1910 British Chess Championship

1910 British Chess Championship		Resid.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Total
1	Atkins,Henry Ernest	Leicester	&;	0	½	1	½	½	1	1	1	1	1	1	8½
2	Yates,Fred Dewhirst	Birstall	1	&;	0	0	1	1	1	½	1	1	1	0	7½
3	Blackburne,Joseph Henry	London	½	1	&;	0	0	1	½	1	½	1	1	1	7½
4	Wainwright,George Edward	London	0	1	1	&;	1	0	1	0	½	0	1	1	6½
5	Blake,Joseph Henry	London	½	0	1	0	&;	1	½	0	½	1	1	1	6½
6	Paley-Hughes,William Alfred	Hastings	½	0	0	1	0	&;	½	1	1	0	0	1	5
7	Colman,Eugene Ernest	Straits Settlement	0	0	½	0	½	½	&;	½	1	1	1	0	5
8	Gibson,William P	Glasgow	0	½	0	1	1	0	½	&;	1	0	0	½	4½
9	Lewis,John A	Liverpool	0	0	½	½	½	0	0	0	&;	1	1	1	4½
10	Smith,Stephen Francis (Dr)	London	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	&;	0	1	4
11	Smith,Frank Scuse	Oxford	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	&;	1	4
12	Brown,Fred	Dudley	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	½	0	0	0	&;	2½

"British Chess Federation: The Oxford Congress:—The following twelve have been selected to play in the Britich Championship Tournament at the Oxford Congress this month: J. H. Blackburne, J. H. Blake, E. C. [typo] Colman, Dr S. F. Smith, and G. E. Wainwright, London; Fred. Brown, Dudley; W. Gibson, Glasgow, H. E. Atkins, Huddersfield; J. Lewis, Liverpool ; F. D. Yates, Birstall ; F. S. Smith, Oxford; and W. Paley Hughes, Hastings.

1910 British Ladies Championship		Resid.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Total
1	Mrs Mary Mills Houlding	Newport	&;	1	1	1	1	0	1	0	1	1	1	1	9
2	Miss Agnes Bradley Lawson	West Hartlepool	0	&;	1	½	½	1	1	1	1	½	1	1	8½
3	Mrs Gertrude Alison Anderson	Woldingham	0	0	&;	½	1	1	1	1	1	0	1	1	7½
4	Mrs Frances Dunn Herring	Brighton	0	½	½	&;	½	1	0	1	1	1	1	1	7½
5	Miss Alice Grace Ruchon	St Leonards	0	½	0	½	&;	1	1	1	1	½	0	1	6½
6	Miss Ann Dick Smith Cuninghame	Edinburgh	1	0	0	0	0	&;	1	½	1	½	1	½	5½
7	Mrs Emily Margaret Stevens	Hastings	0	0	0	1	0	0	&;	1	0	1	1	1	5
8	Miss Georgiana Watson	Hastings	1	0	0	0	0	½	0	&;	1	1	½	1	5
9	Mrs Amabel Nevill Gwyn Moseley	Oxford	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	&;	1	0	1	3
10	Mrs Annie Sophia Roe	London	0	½	1	0	½	½	0	0	0	&;	½	0	3
11	Miss Alice Taylor	Edinburgh	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	½	1	½	&;	0	3
12	Mrs Helena Eliza Sidney	Hove	0	0	0	0	0	½	0	0	0	1	1	&;	2½

"For the British Ladies’ Championship Tournament the competitors are Mrs A. S. Roe, London; Mrs Anderson, Waldingham; Miss Lawson, W. Hartlepool; Mrs Sidney, Hove; Miss Watson, Hastings; Mrs Herring, Brighton; Mrs Moseley, Oxford; Miss Ruchon and Mrs Stevens, Hastings: Miss Smith-Cunninghame and Miss Taylor, Edinburgh; and Mrs Houlding, Newport. [The same newspaper, dated 24 Aug 1910, referred to Miss Ruchon as "of St Leonards"]

1910 British Major Open		Resid.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Total
1	William Hewison Gunston	Cambridge	&;	½	0	1	1	1	1	1	½	1	1	1	9
2	James Chrismas Waterman	Bury St Edmunds	½	&;	1	0	0	1	1	0	1	1	1	1	7½
3	Alexander Parker Th Kerr	Birmingham	1	0	&;	1	1	0	1	1	½	0	½	1	7
4	Georg Schories	Bradford	0	1	0	&;	1	½	1	1	1	1	½	0	7
5	Arthur George West	Yeovil	0	1	0	0	&;	1	0	1	1	1	1	1	7
6	John Ellis Parry	Bangor	0	0	1	½	0	&;	1	0	1	1	1	1	6½
7	Carrick Wardhaugh	Glasgow	0	0	0	0	1	0	&;	1	1	1	1	1	6
8	John James O'Hanlon	Portadown	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	&;	0	1	1	1	5
9	Allan William Edward Louis	London	½	0	½	0	0	0	0	1	&;	1	1	1	5
10	Frank Brown	Dudley	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	&;	½	1	2½
11	E Funk	London	0	0	½	½	0	0	0	0	0	½	&;	1	2½
12	Climenson Yelverton C Dawbarn	Liverpool	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	&;	1

"The Major Open Tournament will consist of R. E. Lean, Brighton; J. E. Parry, Bangor; A. P. T. Kerr, Birmingham ; J. C. Waterman, Bury St Edmunds; A. Lewis and E. Funk, London; Frank Brown, Dudley; G. Shories, Bradford; W. H. Gunston, Cambridge; C. Y. C. Dawbarn, Liverpool; C. Wardhaugh, Glasgow; and J. J. O’Hanlon, Portadown.

"The entries for the First-Class Tournament are: T. W. Letchworth, J. Macalister, E. A. Michell, and E. D. Palmer, London; R. G. Dixon Addey, French Park; J. Crum, Inveresk; H. Moss, Sleaford; A. West, Yeovil; F. R. Adcock, Norwich; A. Cliff, Harpenden; A. L. Stevenson and S. W. Billings, Cheltenham." (Falkirk Herald, Wednesday 3 August 1910)

"Oxford Congress Brilliancy-Prizes: Mr. Hoffer has adjudicated on the seventeen games sent in for these prizes, and has issued his re­port. The chief prize of £5, presented by Mr Naumann, has been divided equally between Messrs J. H. Blackburne and William Gibson (Glasgow) for games against Messrs F. S. Smith and J.H. Blake respectively. The Bishop of Trinidad's £2 2s prize has been divided between Messrs F. S. Smith, W. H. Gunston and J. E. Parry, for games against Messrs Brown, Shories, and Funk. Mr E. N. Frankenstein’s special prize for ladies has been held over, no game having attained the requisite standard of brilliancy." (Falkirk Herald - Wednesday 28 September 1910)

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File Updated

Date	Notes
August 2015	Original upload. Many thanks for help with games and names, etc, from Gerard Killoran, Richard James, David McAlister and Tim Harding. Much of our discussion on the subject may be read on this English Chess Forum thread.
3 May 2016	Corrected the score of the game SF Smith-Blackburne (Rd 6) with the move 18...Rfd8 (not 18...Re8).
27 April 2018	Added two moves (each colour) to the end of the score of Gibson-Blackburne (Rd 11) - thanks to Gerard Killoran.
12 May 2018	Added the game Houlding-Stevens (Rd 8, Ladies' Championship). Thanks to Brian Denman, who comments that Mrs Emily Margaret Stevens was the sister of the well-known organiser and player of the time, Herbert Dobell.
2 November 2020	Added crosstables for the Ladies and Major Open competitions.