
Author: Hastings and St Leonards Chess Club signed by Nona Garprindashvili, Paul Keres, Mikhail Tal, Abram Khasin, Mikhail Botvinnik. Leonid Stein, Alexei Suetin, V Smyslov and M Muggeridge
Year: 1967
Publisher: Hastings and St Leonards Chess Club
Place: Hastings and St Leonards
Description:
unpaginated with tables and advertisements. Octavo (8" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's stapled wrapper's. Signed by Nona Garprindashvili, Paul Keres, Mikhail Tal, Abram Khasin, Mikhail Botvinnik. Leonid Stein, Alexei Suetin, V Smyslov and M Muggeridge. First edition.
This program allowed the holder to be admitted to the event as a spectator.
The 43rd Hastings Christmas Chess Festival was held at the end of the year 1967. Ten grandmasters and masters were invited to compete in a round robin format at the premier event. The notable participants of this edition included Soviet grandmasters Leonid Stein and Alexey Suetin, World Junior Champion Julio Kaplan, Czechoslovakian grandmaster Vlastimil Hort, Romanian grandmaster Florin Gheorghiu, and British junior master Raymond Keene. The final saw a four way tie for first place among Hort, Gheorghiu, Stein, and Suetin. They each finished undefeated with +3, a full point ahead of Yugoslavian master Predrag Ostojic.
Signed sheet which contains the signatures of past Hastings tournaments. Nona Garprindashvili from the Challengers event; MIkhail Tal and Abram Khasin from Preimer 1962/64 tournament.
Paul Keres and Nona Gaprindashvili from 1964/65 Congress.
Mikhail Botvinnik from the 1966/67 contest.
Alexey Suetin and Leonid Stein who tited for first in the 1966/67 Contress.
Vasily Smyslov winner of the Hastings 1968/69 Tournament.
Condition: Signature sheet laid in. Edge wear with bumped corners and crosstables filled io else very good.
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