The Hastings 1895 chess tournament was a round-robin tournament of chess conducted in Hastings, England from August 5 to September 2, 1895.
Hastings 1895 was arguably the strongest tournament in history at the time it occurred. All of the strongest players of the generation competed. This was one of the first times such a "super-tournament" was conducted.
Harry Nelson Pillsbury won the tournament against a strong competitive group. Pillsbury, a young American unknown in Europe, was the surprise winner with 16½ out of 21 points – ahead of Mikhail Chigorin (16) and world champion Emanuel Lasker (15½). Following the success of the event, the Hastings tournament would become an annual feature.
The organizers and players produced a Book of the Tournament, in which the participants annotated their own games. The Book too became an annual feature and was of very high instructional value.
Read more about Hastings 1895 Chess Tournament: Tournament Table
Famous quotes containing the words hastings and/or chess:
“Janie works hard, of course, and she’s a good wife and mother, but do you know she’s never once made a gingerbread house with her children?”
—Mildred Hastings (b. 1924)
“The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem.... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.”
—Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968)