Hastings and St Leonards 41st Annual International Chess Congress Programme

Author: Hastings and St Leonards Chess Club signed by Boris Vasilievich SpasskyYear: 1965Publisher: Hastings and St Leonards Chess ClubPlace: 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 Spassky. First edition. This program allowed the holder to be admitted to the event as a spectator. The forty-first Hastings and St. Leonards International Chess Congress, which when three days old was to become the first event of the ninth-centenary year of the famous Battle of Hastings, was opened by Sir Alan Herbert on the afternoon of Wednesday, December 29th, 1965. More than two hundred competitors had entered for the various sections, which this time included a special Challengers  Tournament run on the Swiss System. The Premier itself boasted five international grandmasters, one of them the official challenger for the World Championship. Spassky's convincing victories over Keres,