Talk:Hastings International Chess Congress

Error
"This time Botvinnik was undefeated, winning seven and drawing two to finish first with 7/9."

This sounds strange to me! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.208.155.24 (talk) 21:35, 27 October 2009 (UTC) <!--Autosigned by SineBot-

winning score in 2018-19 was 7.0/10 not 7.0/9

1924/25
Sunnucks' The Encyclopaedia of Chess gives crosstables for the tournaments from 1920/21. It looks like the 1924/25 Premier Tournament was held in two sections, as two crosstables are given labeled Section 1 and Section 2. Section 1 was won by Maroczy 6.5 ahead of Yates 5.5 and Seitz 5. Section 2 had Przepiorka, A. Steiner, and Tartakower tied for first. A note indicates that a playoff resulted in 1st= Maroczy and Tartakower, 3rd Yates, 4th A. Steiner, 5th Przepiorka, 6th Sietz. Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess concurs that Maroczy and Tartakower won. The official website gives 4 winners (Maroczy and all 3 from section 2), but I think I'm going to trim the list to just Maroczy and Tartakower. Quale (talk) 03:04, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

To do

 * Add brief descriptions of the tournament for any years that we can find sources for. 2007/8 is described at http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4367.  It's a striking example of the grandmaster draw problem. Quale (talk) 05:15, 21 January 2008 (UTC)