"The Hastings Christmas Chess Festival, which commenced on Boxing Day and concluded on the following Saturday, December 31st, 1921, was a thorough success and reflected great credit on the organisers, the officials of the Hastings Chess Club, headed by Mr. H. E. Dobell, the new president of the club. Nor must mention be omitted of the share which the municipality of the town took in promoting the success of the meeting, for through the courtesy of the Mayor, Alderman J. W. Fellows, and the Council, play took place in the Council Chamber at the Town Hall, a room admirably suited for a gathering of the size on this occasion. Lastly, the requirements of the players in the way of refreshments were well looked after by the same energetic band of local ladies who had done like service at the Victory Congress in 1919. The wish expressed by Mr. Dobell at the prize-giving on the final afternoon, that chessplayers should come to regard Hastings as the natural place to look for chess at Christmastide, is sure of fulfilment if the standard set up by the congresses of Christmas, 1920 and 1921, be maintained.

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