1976 British Chess Championship, Portsmouth, 9-20 August • 1975« »1977

1976 British Chess Championship		Nat'y	Elo	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Total
1	A Jonathan Mestel	ENG	2390	◊ 1/33	♦ 1/13	♦ 1/15	◊ 1/8	◊ 1/17	♦ 1/21	◊ 1/3	♦ 1/5	◊ 1/9	♦ ½/4	♦ 0/2	9½
2	Andrew J Whiteley	ENG	2370	◊ 0/3	♦ ½/22	◊ 1/34	♦ ½/6	◊ ½/14	♦ 1/30	◊ 1/31	♦ ½/7	◊ 1/21	♦ 1/9	◊ 1/1	8
3	Emmanuel Rayner	WLS		♦ 1/2	◊ ½/4	♦ 1/10	◊ 1/25	♦ 0/21	◊ 1/8	♦ 0/1	◊ 1/11	♦ 0/7	◊ 1/18	♦ 1/12	7½
4	Michael J Haygarth	ENG	2330	◊ 1/22	♦ ½/3	◊ 1/20	♦ 0/17	◊ ½/15	♦ ½/7	◊ 1/14	♦ 1/21	◊ 1/5	◊ ½/1	♦ ½/6	7½
5	Jonathan S Speelman	ENG	2380	♦ ½/11	◊ ½/14	♦ 1/33	◊ 1/16	♦ ½/8	◊ 1/18	♦ 1/6	◊ 0/1	♦ 0/4	◊ ½/10	♦ 1/19	7
6	Victor W Knox	ENG	2330	♦ 1/23	◊ 0/15	♦ 1/14	◊ ½/2	♦ ½/10	♦ 1/20	◊ 0/5	◊ 1/25	♦ ½/16	◊ 1/7	◊ ½/4	7
7	Glenn E J Lambert	ENG		♦ 1/21	◊ 1/12	♦ 0/8	◊ ½/15	♦ ½/16	◊ ½/4	♦ 1/18	◊ ½/2	◊ 1/3	♦ 0/6	◊ ½/9	6½
8	Anthony J Miles	ENG	2510m	◊ 1/31	♦ 1/18	◊ 1/7	♦ 0/1	◊ ½/5	♦ 0/3	◊ 1/17	♦ 0/9	◊ ½/20	♦ 1/16	♦ ½/10	6½
9	Robert Bellin	ENG	2360	♦ 1/24	◊ ½/10	♦ ½/16	◊ 0/21	♦ 1/12	◊ 1/23	♦ 1/15	◊ 1/8	♦ 0/1	◊ 0/2	♦ ½/7	6½
10	Nigel E Povah	ENG	2300	◊ 1/26	♦ ½/9	◊ 0/3	♦ 1/22	◊ ½/6	♦ 1/17	◊ 0/21	◊ ½/15	♦ 1/14	♦ ½/5	◊ ½/8	6½
11	Murray G Chandler	NZL		◊ ½/5	♦ 1/34	◊ 0/17	♦ 0/14	◊ ½/19	♦ 1/32	◊ 1/20	♦ 0/3	◊ ½/25	♦ 1/27	♦ 1/18	6½
12	George Steven Botterill	WLS	2390	◊ 1/29	♦ 0/7	◊ 1/31	♦ 0/18	◊ 0/9	♦ ½/13	◊ ½/30	♦ 1/22	◊ 1/26	♦ 1/21	◊ 0/3	6
13	Kenneth P Neat	ENG	2315	♦ 1/36	◊ 0/1	♦ 0/25	◊ 1/31	♦ ½/23	◊ ½/12	♦ ½/19	◊ 0/16	◊ 1/30	♦ ½/14	◊ 1/21	6
14	John N Sugden	ENG		◊ ½/19	♦ ½/5	◊ 0/6	◊ 1/11	♦ ½/2	◊ 1/16	♦ 0/4	♦ 1/17	◊ 0/10	◊ ½/13	♦ ½/20	5½
15	John C Pigott	ENG	2380	◊ 1/27	♦ 1/6	◊ 0/1	♦ ½/7	♦ ½/4	◊ 1/25	◊ 0/9	♦ ½/10	◊ 0/18	♦ ½/20	◊ ½/16	5½
16	David Goodman	ENG	2230	◊ ½/17	♦ 1/19	◊ ½/9	♦ 0/5	◊ ½/7	♦ 0/14	◊ 1/23	♦ 1/13	◊ ½/6	◊ 0/8	♦ ½/15	5½
17	Michael Macdonald-Ross	SCO	2280	♦ ½/16	◊ 1/28	♦ 1/11	◊ 1/4	♦ 0/1	◊ 0/10	♦ 0/8	◊ 0/14	♦ 0/19	♦ 1/34	◊ 1/32	5½
18	Jeff Horner	ENG	2405	♦ 1/32	◊ 0/8	♦ 1/26	◊ 1/12	♦ ½/25	♦ 0/5	◊ 0/7	◊ 1/19	♦ 1/15	♦ 0/3	◊ 0/11	5½
19	Peter H Clarke	ENG	2350	♦ ½/14	◊ 0/16	♦ ½/23	◊ 1/27	♦ ½/11	♦ ½/22	◊ ½/13	♦ 0/18	◊ 1/17	♦ 1/25	◊ 0/5	5½
20	Maxwell L Fuller	AUS		♦ 1/35	◊ ½/25	♦ 0/4	◊ ½/23	♦ 1/33	◊ 0/6	♦ 0/11	◊ 1/31	♦ ½/8	◊ ½/15	◊ ½/14	5½
21	David E Rumens	ENG	2300	◊ 0/7	♦ 1/29	◊ 1/30	♦ 1/9	◊ 1/3	◊ 0/1	♦ 1/10	◊ 0/4	♦ 0/2	◊ 0/12	♦ 0/13	5
22	(Derek) George Ellison,	ENG		♦ 0/4	◊ ½/2	♦ 1/28	◊ 0/10	♦ 1/26	◊ ½/19	♦ 0/25	◊ 0/12	♦ ½/29	◊ 1/24	♦ ½/23	5
23	Hugh Dugald MacPherson	ENG		◊ 0/6	♦ 1/27	◊ ½/19	♦ ½/20	◊ ½/13	♦ 0/9	♦ 0/16	◊ ½/35	♦ ½/28	◊ 1/30	◊ ½/22	5
24	C Jonathan Lennox	SCO		◊ 0/9	♦ 0/26	◊ 0/32	◊ 1/35	♦ ½/28	♦ ½/34	◊ 1/29	♦ ½/30	◊ ½/27	♦ 0/22	◊ 1/25	5
25	Peter W Hempson	ENG		◊ 1/30	♦ ½/20	◊ 1/13	♦ 0/3	◊ ½/18	♦ 0/15	◊ 1/22	♦ 0/6	♦ ½/11	◊ 0/19	♦ 0/24	4½
26	David Brine Pritchard	ENG		♦ 0/10	◊ 1/24	◊ 0/18	♦ ½/30	◊ 0/22	♦ ½/28	◊ ½/34	◊ 1/32	♦ 0/12	♦ ½/36	◊ ½/29	4½
27	Paul E Littlewood	ENG	2345	♦ 0/15	◊ 0/23	♦ 1/35	♦ 0/19	◊ 0/30	◊ 1/36	♦ ½/32	◊ 1/33	♦ ½/24	◊ 0/11	♦ ½/28	4½
28	Bernard Cafferty	ENG	2310	◊ ½/34	♦ 0/17	◊ 0/22	♦ ½/29	◊ ½/24	◊ ½/26	♦ ½/33	♦ ½/36	◊ ½/23	♦ ½/32	◊ ½/27	4½
29	Alan Templeton Ludgate	IRL	2255	♦ 0/12	◊ 0/21	♦ ½/36	◊ ½/28	♦ 0/31	◊ 1/35	♦ 0/24	♦ ½/34	◊ ½/22	◊ 1/33	♦ ½/26	4½
30	Gerald H Bennett	ENG	2350	♦ 0/25	◊ 1/35	♦ 0/21	◊ ½/26	♦ 1/27	◊ 0/2	♦ ½/12	◊ ½/24	♦ 0/13	♦ 0/23	◊ ½/36	4
31	Derek Maurice Wise	ENG		♦ 0/8	◊ 1/32	♦ 0/12	♦ 0/13	◊ 1/29	◊ 1/33	♦ 0/2	♦ 0/20	◊ 0/36	◊ ½/35	♦ ½/34	4
32	Peter J Romilly	ENG		◊ 0/18	♦ 0/31	♦ 1/24	◊ 0/33	♦ 1/36	◊ 0/11	◊ ½/27	♦ 0/26	♦ 1/35	◊ ½/28	♦ 0/17	4
33	Frank Parr	ENG		♦ 0/1	◊ 1/36	◊ 0/5	♦ 1/32	◊ 0/20	♦ 0/31	◊ ½/28	♦ 0/27	◊ ½/34	♦ 0/29	♦ ½/35	3½
34	David O Vaughan	WLS		♦ ½/28	◊ 0/11	♦ 0/2	◊ ½/36	♦ 0/35	◊ ½/24	♦ ½/26	◊ ½/29	♦ ½/33	◊ 0/17	◊ ½/31	3½
35	Peter J Lee	ENG		◊ 0/20	♦ 0/30	◊ 0/27	♦ 0/24	◊ 1/34	♦ 0/29	◊ 1/36	♦ ½/23	◊ 0/32	♦ ½/31	◊ ½/33	3½
36	Charles W Pickard	ENG		◊ 0/13	♦ 0/33	◊ ½/29	♦ ½/34	◊ 0/32	♦ 0/27	♦ 0/35	◊ ½/28	♦ 1/31	◊ ½/26	♦ ½/30	3½

1976 British Ladies Chess Championship (all-play-all) • 1975« »1977

1976 British Ladies Championship		Residence	Elo	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Total
1	Dr. Jana Hartston (née Malypetrova)	Cambridge	2230wm	&;	1	½	½	1	½	1	½	1	½	1	1	8½
2	Sheila Jackson		2055	0	&;	½	½	0	1	1	½	1	1	1	1	7½
3	(Patricia) Anne Sunnucks	Crowthorne	2060wm	½	½	&;	0	½	1	½	1	1	1	1	½	7½
4	Marion McGrath	Australia		½	½	1	&;	1	½	0	1	½	1	½	½	7
5	Susan L Caldwell		2060	0	1	½	0	&;	0	½	1	1	½	1	1	6½
6	Margaret Eileen Elizabeth (Peggy) Clarke	Bude	1970	½	0	0	½	1	&;	½	1	1	½	1	½	6½
7	Dinah Margaret Wright (née Dobson)	Harrow	2070	0	0	½	1	½	½	&;	½	0	1	½	1	5½
8	Rowena Mary Bruce (née Dew)	Plymouth	1990wm	½	½	0	0	0	0	½	&;	½	½	½	1	4
9	Wanda Pritchard	Godalming	1875	0	0	0	½	0	0	1	½	&;	½	½	1	4
10	Jane F Seymour			½	0	0	0	½	½	0	½	½	&;	½	1	4
11	Olive Chataway (née Richards)	Harrow	1950	0	0	0	½	0	0	½	½	½	½	&;	1	3½
12	Rae Galtsmith-Clarke		1800	0	0	½	½	0	½	0	0	0	0	0	&;	1½

1976 BCF Major Open (11-rd Swiss)

1 Julian T Farrand 10/11; 2 David A Curnow 8½; 3 Roger Emerson 8; 4-5 J. Bocker (BRD), John W Naylor 7½; 6-9 Paul V Byway, D. Kerr, Chris J McSheehy, B.R. Smith 7; 10-16 R Alan Barton, Paul R Bielby, Paul F Habershon, D. James, C. Jones, J. Steedman, A. Wernitz (BRD) 6½; 17-25 D.M. Andrew, J.M. Bennett, M.P. Cook, D Michael Denison, Keith L Escott, Ian McAllan, J. Simpson, Peter J Sowray, P. Wernitz (BRD) 6; 26-36 N.R. Benjamin, Ronald Blow, K. Bowmer, M.J. Bulford, Graham P Burton, Kenneth G Coates, Percy B Cook, M.C. Davis, E. Matthewson, W. McDougall, Ludwig Rellstab (BRD) 5½; 37-43 A. Cullinane, Arthur Hall, H.O. Heuer (BRD), Paul S N Kendall, George Szaszvari, J.E. Vickery, G.W. Wheeler 5; 44-50 Alan D Gravett, Otto Hardy, B. Marshall, James R Nicolson, W. Phillips, A Philip Primett, S. Williams 4½; 51-56 N.M. Abbasi, David (Paul) L Barasi, F. Clough, R.C.P. Freeman, S.L. Green, Roger Hardy 4; 57 D.A. Bennett 3½; 58-59 J.M. Haigh, R.J.F. Williams 2½.

1976 British U-21 Championship (11-rd Swiss)

1-3 Richard Britton, Clifford R Chandler, Robin W Haldane 8/11; 4 Shaun M Taulbut 7½; 5-6 Chris W Baker, Peter G Large 7; 7 John H Hodgson 6½; 8-14 S.P. Goodman, M.K. Jones, M.A. Lee, D.L. Massie, S.W. Small, P.J. Szalapaj, Ian R Watson 6; 15-22 K.S. Ashman, I. Bourne, J. Burke, Colin S Crouch, J. Hall, J. McCarthy, I. Wallis, K.P. Warren 5½; 23-24 P.R. Baslington, Simon C Le Blancq 5; 25-26 P.F. Brown, N.A.P. McSheehy 4½; 27 28 P. Coughlin, I.P. Legg 4; 29 R.C. Dempsey 3½; 30 M. Capek 2½; 31 M. Lyus 1½/8; 32 Miss V. Craven ½.

1976 British U-18 Championship (11-rd Swiss)

1 Jonathan C Benjamin 8½/11; 2 Nigel R Davies 8; 3½ Simon J B Knott, T.P. Love, Graham Morrison, D.R. Stringer 7; 7-13 J.P. Hannan, Simon Macauley S. Mulligan, H James Plaskett, S.J. Popham, A.T. Richardson, D. Shuttleworth 6½; 14-16 Jonathan J Ady, M.J. Coogan, Matthew Read 6; 17-20 J. Boswell, S.J. Hooker, Owen Phillips, A.J. Ryba 5½; 21-24 P.B. Eastlake, S. Foale, David A Houston, B. Tedd 5; 25-29 I.R.C. Davies, S.J. Gregory, A.C.W. Springbett, M. Varnham, G. Yevko 4½; 30-32 A.J. Bowden, M. Seton, R.J. Woods 4; 33-35 James D Pratt, D. Prees, P. Thethi 3½; 36 G. Hardy 3.

1976 British Girls U-18 Championship (all-play-all)

1-2 Angela Eagle, Jane Garwell 5/7; 3 Shirley J Wilson 4½; 4 Maria Eagle 4; 5-6 Debbie H Evans, S. Prince 3½; 7 A. Boswell 2½; 8 C. Smith 0.

1976 British U-16 Championship (11-rd Swiss)

1 David H Cummings 9/11; 2 Nicholas W Ivell 8½; 3-7 John W Branford, M.G. Bucknell, A. Lewis, Malcolm Pein, M.P. Townsend 7½; 8-10 R.J. Griffiths, Richard J McMichael, Peter J Sullivan 7; 11-15 Nevil Chan, Tom Farrand, S.D. Hannan, Bobo Lo, C.A. Plasa 6½; 16-23 Simon D Brown, M.R. Charter, R. Henley, J.S. Hill, S. Johnson, K. Mahon, D. Roberts, Ian Duncan Wells 6; 24-29 P. Anderson, P.B. Conway, Francis Rayner, M. Shaw, A.G. Simpson, Robert J Woodcraft 5½; 30-35 Robert D M Alster, M. Buckmaster, David Carless, S.J. Don, N.M. Jones, Robert C Noyce 5; 36-44 C. Barron, M. Doran, Trevor G Dunmore, A. Gardner, C.J. Gentile, G.M. Heap, K.J. Norbury, R. Ormesher, K. Rakshit 4½; 45-48 M.S. Kay, D.G. Marshall, I.R. Rudgley, C. Suddick 4; 49 P. Bill 3½; 50 M.V. House 3; 51 Marc Bryant 2; 52 Mark L Baxendall 1½.

1976 British U-14 Championship (11-rd Swiss)

1 Clive Frostick 9½/11; 2-3 R.F. Holmes, R. Webb 8; 4-6 K. Allen, C.P. Garwood, R.J. Jacobs 7½; 7-10 J. Hawksworth, D.J. King, J. Rakshit, G. Senior 7; 11-13 A.J. King, M. Rose, N.D. Walford 6½; 14-17 N.M. Andrews, N.W. Cannon, S.H. Lee, D.C. Spurgeon 6; 18-29 C.J. Ballard, S.D. Bell, D. Ford, K.C. House, C.A. Jones, P.S.A. Jones, J. Kennedy, D.J. Miller, P.A. Norris, G.O. Roberts, G.A. White, K.A. Yeomans 5½; 30-34 C. Brookes, T.C.L. Brown, A.G. Clough, D. Edmonds, J.E. Hockaday 5; 35-39 A. Barron, K. Beedle, S. Pike, Miss A. Rakshit, J.R. Smith 4½; 40-43 C. Hunter, B.R. Joyce, C.S.S. Roberts, Miss M. Rakshit 4; 44 J.A. Brown 3½; 45 R. Edmonds 2½; 46-47 S.C. James, D.A. Knox 1½; 48 A.F. Mottram 1.

1976 British Girls U-14 Championship (all-play-all)

1 Clare Whitehead 6½/7; 2 Carey A Groves 5; 3 Katie Blake 4½; 4 Sally Atkin 4; 5 J. Chamberlain 3; 6-7 Gaynor D James, Carena Nicholas 2½; 8 Julia L Scotney 0.

1976 British U-11 Championship (10-rd Swiss)

1 Andrew C L Dyson 9/10; 2 James C Howell 7; 3-5 D.A. Jackson, Gary W Lane, B. Sloan 6½; 6-11 D. Connolly, N. Dickenson, T. Kelly, V.B. Lewis, S.G. Walker, P.K. Wells 6; 12-16 P. Daft, P. Dixon, M. Griffiths, S. Mannion, K. Robbins 5½; 17-20 N.I. Fox, T. Fyfe, C.D. St John, I.A. Welch 5; 21-29 I. Holle, P. House, Andrew P H Kinsman, R. Ledbury, D.L. Lee, P.M. Spurgeon, H.T. Norris, Aaron Stolow, G.A. Waddingham 4½; 30 J.D. Hockaday 4; 31 J. Richards 2½; 32-33 M. Bevan, P. Hatchett 1½; 34 S. Brill 1.

BCF First Class (11-rd Swiss)

1 A. Williams 9/11; 2 R. Franklin 8½; 3-5 Peter Hannan, D.P. Hurricks, C.J. West 7½; 6-9 B.J. Benjamin, C. Green, W.D. Johnson, A. Pinkerton 7; 10-13 R. Cherubim (BRD), I. Judd, G.S. McCormick, D. Mayers 6½; 14-20 M.J. Benjamin, G.A.M. Boswell, J. Druce-Powell, G.V. Glover, P.J. McEvoy, M.H. Micklethwaite, K.F. Shaw 6; 21-25 H.J. Draisey, P. Griffiths, S. Welbourne, R. Woodcock, D.G. Woodruff 5½; 26-34 M. Bird, Michael T Bolan, S.J. Drury, F. Cole, Frank G Hatto, M.R. Lee, K.A. Lucas, J.P. Scragg, E.J. Simpson 5; 35-38 P.J. Guyan, T.J. O’Donohue, T.V. Parrott, P. Rose 3½; 39 F.A. Winter 4; 40-42 K. Getty, E.D. Hockaday, N. Meredith 3½; 43 J.C. Calvert 2½, 44 A.J. Doherty 1½; 45 G. Burnett 1.

1976 BCF Over 60 (11-rd Swiss)

1-3 Charles Ambrose Scott Damant, Wilfred Henry Pratten, Harry Ivor Woolverton 8½/11; 4 W.J.E. Yeeles 7½, 5-7 J. Johnson, A. Laxton, C.W. Marshall 6½; 8-9 A.F. Behmber, W. Evans 5½; 10-14 P. Doig, J.W. Graham, A. Milner, W.R. Rayner, J. Richmond 5; 15 F. Richardson 4; 16 H.E. Wadsworth 3; 17 E.W. Engert 2; 18 R. Green 1½.

5 Day, Morning - 1st week (5-rd Swiss)

1 J.O. Pedersen (DK) 4½/5; 2-4 R.M. Horner, T. Knoth, P.A.J. Rose 4; 5-8 Jacob (Jack) Alster, O. Eriksen (DK), C. Kjersgaard (DK), P.D. Smith 3½; 9-12 D.W. Bell, D. Branford, D. Welch, S.L. Whitehead 3; 13-19 W.T. Chamberlain, P.W.L. Clough, K.E. Eriksen (DK), C.F. Fielding, O. Hald (DK), A.J. Mezzo, I. Watson 2½; 20-27 G. Davie, A. Foster, P. Kenning, O. Ledbury, D.I.R. Norris, D.H. Sprigley, M. Stolow, A. Whitehead 2; 28 F. Martin 1½; 29-31 A.J. Bullen, C.M.W. Daft, K. Wilkinson 1; 32 D.V. Booth ½; 33 J. Coogan 0.

5 Day, Afternoon - 1st week (5-rd Swiss)

1-2 Philip Giulian, Tim Parkes 4½/5; 3-4 C.M. Cooley, H. Plukker (NL) 4; 5-6 P. Morrey, J. Ryan 3½; 7-11 E.N. Bramley, B. Fraser, J. Lehmensick, W.D. Muir, E. Oliver 3; 12-15 P.M. Hodgson, A. Leggatt, Richard W O’Brien, R.H. Saunders 2½; 16-19 C.W. Bryan, P.W. Mottram, J.D. Robins, M. Vernon 2; 20-23 J.R. Beadle, G.W.L. Evans, J.D.H. Nicholas, R.S. Thornton 1½; 24-26 J.D. Evans, Mrs A. Garwell, D. Russell.

5 Day, Morning - 2nd week (5-rd Swiss)

1 F. Watson 5/5; 2-3 K.A.J. Francis, L. Mouillaux (F) 4; 4-5 B. Cox, H. Plukker (NL) 3½; 6-11 Ms Debbie Evans, A. Kinder, L.W. Prescott, P. Spurgeon, L.A. Trangmar, I. Whittaker 3; 12-16 M. Cole, K. Davies, R.J. Nash, N. Staples, A. Willis 2½; 17-19 D. Lee, R.W. O’Brien, S.L. Whitehead 2; 20-22 E.E. Croker, F.F. Jacquier, R.G. Jones 1½; 23-26 Jacob (Jack) Alster 1, C. Cheetham, G.M. Evans, Carey Groves 1.

5 Day, Afternoon - 2nd week (5-rd Swiss)

1-2 J. Lehmensick, Tim Parkes 4/5; 3 E. Oliver 3½; 4-6 D.V. Booth, Chris M Cooley, M. Cox 3; 7-10 B Peter A Andrews, P. Morrey, R.H. Saunders, D.J. Scotney 2½; 11-13 L.C. Allen, G. Beattie, Miss Shirley J Wilson 2; 14 J.R. Beadle 1½; 15-16 Miss Jean Pickles, G.D. Scotney 1.

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Date	Notes
18 Sept 2017	Added full results
16 July 2020	Some cosmetic amendments to spelling, etc. At some point I will replace the bulk of initials with forenames.