Thanks to Brian and Tim for help with this. I looked up the Centre Gambit in the opening section of
The Complete Chess Guide by F J Lee and G H D Gossip (Edinburgh, 1910). Part 3 of the book is devoted to openings (for which Gossip seems to have been solely responsible: it is dated 1891) and uses Centre Gambit as the name for everything starting 1 e4 e5 2 d4 exd4 except for 3 c3 which he classifies as the Danish Gambit.
"At Last! The 1948 Show"... I have just posted a file for the 1948/49 Hastings tournament on BritBase. The 45 Premier games have been available for many years, on BritBase and elsewhere -
chessgames.com has a well-curated page on this event - but I have added 21 games from the subsidiary sections, plus crosstables of all sections and contemporary accounts of play from newspapers and magazines.
https://www.saund.org.uk/britbase/pgn/1 ... iewer.html
You will note that I have added a (not very good) photo which I found in the Midland Bulletin. It features Jacques Mieses, Dr Hans Schenk, A R B Thomas playing in the 1948/49 Hastings Premier Reserves Major. Unfortunately the photo doesn't show their opponents - it looks rather as if it has been divided vertically to fit the space in what was an advertisement for Golombek and Morry's Hastings supplement. This is especially annoying as I'm pretty sure this was the occasion when Leonard Barden played Jacques Mieses and thus acquired his Morphy Number 3 status.
1948-49-hastings-mieses-schenk-thomas.jpg
The draw for the tournament is known: Leonard drew number one, or perhaps inherited it from the player he replaced in the tournament (a Professor Runte from Germany who couldn't get to Hastings because of visa problems). This means Leonard would have played white vs Mieses in round 1, 30 December 1948, and the only other round in which Messrs Mieses, Schenk and Thomas could have all had black would have been round 8. It's much more likely to have been round 1, however, since that is traditionally when press photographers turn up to get their shots.
Unfortunately we don't have the score of Barden-Mieses - I've asked Leonard and he hasn't got it. But the photo shows us that two moves have been played: 1 e4 c5 2 x e6 where x is probably Nf3. Not much to go on but it is a start!
I've seen a few other fuzzy photos from the 1948/49 Hastings tournament (they tend to reproduce very badly in newspaper archives) but it would be good if forum sleuths could track down some better ones. And a few more game scores to add to the collection would be very welcome.
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