1990s Hastings Bulletins
Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2024 9:33 am
A recent addition to BritBase was the 1990/91 Hastings tournament, for which I am grateful to Ian Thompson.
So far this is the one Hastings tournament from the 1990s which has featured in full on BritBase, with a crosstable for the Challengers event and game scores with dates and round numbers. Though the Hastings Premier games for this period are all generally available, both on BritBase and elsewhere, the Hastings Challengers games for the rest of the 1990s are problematic. ChessBase digitised a lot of these games many years ago but unfortunately made a mess of the job, often mixing up the games played in the January period of one tournament with those played in the December period of the next. Also, many of the games they publish are undated and/or without round numbers (probably because they were input at a time when the software didn't allow full dates).
I should like to address this problem but I am currently unable to as I don't have copies of the relevant bulletins. I'm hoping members of the forum can help by lending (or sending scans of) 1990s Hastings bulletins. Full crosstables for Challengers tournaments would also be a great help (having not seen the bulletins, I don't know whether these were included). (EDIT: I do have the 1993/94 bulletin, thanks to Ian Thompson)
All help gratefully received. As John F Kennedy said, "ask not what BritBase can do for you - ask what you can do for BritBase." I believe he also said "ich bin ein BritBaser." (I may have misquoted him slightly)
P.S. the same applies to some 1970s and 1980s Hastings tournaments - if you consult this page, you can see where the gaps are in Hastings coverage on BritBase (n.b. I do have the 1983/84 Hastings bulletin, ready to be processed)
So far this is the one Hastings tournament from the 1990s which has featured in full on BritBase, with a crosstable for the Challengers event and game scores with dates and round numbers. Though the Hastings Premier games for this period are all generally available, both on BritBase and elsewhere, the Hastings Challengers games for the rest of the 1990s are problematic. ChessBase digitised a lot of these games many years ago but unfortunately made a mess of the job, often mixing up the games played in the January period of one tournament with those played in the December period of the next. Also, many of the games they publish are undated and/or without round numbers (probably because they were input at a time when the software didn't allow full dates).
I should like to address this problem but I am currently unable to as I don't have copies of the relevant bulletins. I'm hoping members of the forum can help by lending (or sending scans of) 1990s Hastings bulletins. Full crosstables for Challengers tournaments would also be a great help (having not seen the bulletins, I don't know whether these were included). (EDIT: I do have the 1993/94 bulletin, thanks to Ian Thompson)
All help gratefully received. As John F Kennedy said, "ask not what BritBase can do for you - ask what you can do for BritBase." I believe he also said "ich bin ein BritBaser." (I may have misquoted him slightly)
P.S. the same applies to some 1970s and 1980s Hastings tournaments - if you consult this page, you can see where the gaps are in Hastings coverage on BritBase (n.b. I do have the 1983/84 Hastings bulletin, ready to be processed)