Hastings Main B 1973/74

Habershon leads the Main B subsidiary section
1973/74 congress; native score dated December 1973 · Hastings, England
Paul Habershon won Main B with 7/9, ahead of Malcolm Lightfoot on 6½.
Incomplete record·games missing

Incomplete record. This archive holds only one game of this event; the others are missing, and the number played is not established. One Main B score is represented. The published nine-round results establish a wider tournament, but a full pairing/default ledger and played total are unavailable.

Paul Habershon won the nine-round Main B tournament with 7 points, followed by Malcolm Lightfoot on 6½. This separate subsidiary section is represented by one verified score, Gielow–Walker.

The published result

The surviving summary names 25 competitors. Seven share the next score of 5½: Manfred Gielow, Adrian Lewis, Robert Lynn, Stephen Macdonald-Ross, K Neumann, Stephen Taylor and Ada van der Giessen. The summary has not been verified as a complete entrant list.

Main B was separate from the Premier and Challengers sections. The final result documents a wider tournament than the single surviving approved score, but the full pairing and default ledger was not obtained, so the number actually played remains unknown.

One surviving score

The complete Gielow–Walker mainline matches the explicitly labeled Main B reference. Native and published first-name forms differ for both players; those discrepancies are retained in the source notes. The original moves, result, date and unknown round remain unchanged.

Result

7/9
Paul Habershon won Main B with 7/9, ahead of Malcolm Lightfoot on 6½.

Only one verified score is represented. The published summary names 25 competitors; full field, actual played count and default/bye details are not established.