He also managed to score in every British Home Championship tournament he played in except 1963 in an association with the tournament which lasted from 1958 to 1970 and included 16 goals and ten tournament victories ( five shared ).

England began the tournament with two victories in the group stages, plus a memorable defeat against Brazil.

In 2007, they received a bye in the first round and continued on to victories over Illinois State and Indiana, but were beaten by the eventual tournament champions, Wyoming, in the 4th round of the tournament.

Palmer's most prolific years were 1960 – 1963, when he won 29 PGA Tour events, including five major tournament victories, in four seasons.

The team was able to make it to consecutive national championships in 2000 and 2001 after tournament victories in Rye, New York and Washington, D. C.

Some of his late successes included victories at Lone Pine 1976 and in the 1979 Paul Keres Memorial tournament in Tallinn ( 12 / 16 without a loss, ahead of Tal, Bronstein and others ), shared first place ( with Portisch and Hübner ) in the Rio de Janeiro Interzonal the same year, and second place in Tilburg in 1981, half a point behind the winner Beliavsky.

With two victories against Padova ( 3 – 1 and 5 – 0 ), Udinese finished the tournament in second place behind Petrarca and were promoted to first-level Prima Categoria.

She started the year strongly, with six tournament victories heading into the French Open, the highlight being at the tournament in Miami, where she defeated Martina Navratilova in a semifinal and Chris Evert in the final and conceded only 20 games in the seven rounds of the tournament.

Graf warmed up for the US Open with easy tournament victories in San Diego and Mahwah.

Four consecutive indoor tournament victories in the autumn improved her year, but for the third consecutive year, she failed to win the Virginia Slims Championships, where she lost in the first round to Lori McNeil.

In just the pair's first tournament since 2010 Wimbledon, the unseeded sisters advanced to the final with notable victories against fourth-seeded Maria Kirilenko and Nadia Petrova in the second round and top-seeded Liezel Huber and Lisa Raymond in the semifinals.

With the tournament now as an Olympic qualifier, there followed three more consecutive victories, in 1991, 1995 and 1999.

Further major tournament victories were achieved at Hastings 1953 – 54, Belgrade 1954, Gotha 1957, Moscow 1959, Szombathely 1966, East Berlin 1968, Dnepropetrovsk 1970, Sarajevo 1971, Sandomierz 1976, Iwonicz Zdrój 1976, Budapest 1977, and Jūrmala 1978.

Petrova had come into the tie with two consecutive clay court tournament victories and a 10-match clay court winning streak, while Dementieva had defeated Henin in their last meeting in Indian Wells and defeated second ranked Belgian compatriot Kim Clijsters on the first day of the tie.

The chess tournament proceeds, culminating in a series of victories for Anatoly with only one more needed to make him winner of the entire tournament (" Chess # 2 ").

Two outstanding international tournament victories were attained at Moscow 1967 ( commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1917 October Revolution ), and Moscow 1971 ( Alekhine Memorial, equal with Anatoly Karpov ).

Further international tournament victories were scored at East Berlin 1962, Sarajevo 1967, Hastings 1967-68, Kecskemét 1968, Tallinn 1969, Pärnu 1971, and Las Palmas 1973.

Many other cup triumphs in domestic soccer have also been recorded, including Vodacom Challenge title victories in the inaugural 1999 tournament and in 2005.

His tournament successes include over 160 first-place finishes.

Examples would include offering prizes to contestants who can make a half-court shot at a basketball game, or a hole-in-one at a golf tournament.

Modern tournament play became popular in American casinos after the World Series of Poker began, in 1970. Notable champions from these early WSOP tournaments include Johnny Moss, Amarillo Slim, Bobby Baldwin, Doyle Brunson, and Puggy Pearson.

Common tournament configurations include men's singles, women's singles, and doubles, where two players play on each side of the net.

Fighting games often include a single player campaign or tournament, where the player must defeat a sequence of several computer controlled opponents.

These tournaments include " Masters " tournaments, " Trash " tournaments, and the occasional intramural tournament.

Other major international tournament finals decided by a golden goal include:

The Bulgarian Volleyball Federation is the world's second-oldest, and it was an exhibition tournament organised by the BVF in Sofia that convinced the International Olympic Committee to include volleyball as an olympic sport in 1957.

Finally, with the further expansion of the UEFA Champions League to include as many as three or four teams from the top footballing nations, the decision was taken to abolish the competition after the end of the 1998 / 99 tournament.

Activities include the Miss River Raisin Contest, carnival rides and games, arts and crafts vendors, a large variety of food, a softball tournament, a car show, tractor pulls, and a beer tent.

The festivities include a softball tournament, beanbag tournament, horseshoe tournament, volleyball tournament, street dances, community picnic, duck races, and a display of fireworks.

Events include a fishing contest to see who can catch the biggest catfish, a street dance, a square dance, Sunday parades, co-ed volleyball tournament, men's 12-team softball tournament, bean bag tournament, queen contest / variety show, chess tournament, " Kiss the Catfish Contest ," music at the park, a raffle, church services, fire department water ball, and a St. Luke's Lutheran Church-sponsored breakfast.

Activities include a beef barbecue, car show, community worship service, kiddie carnival, food court, ice cream social, petting zoo, model airplane show, skydiving exhibition, horseshoe pitching contest, sand volleyball tournament and a 3-on-3 basketball tournament.

The festivities include a slow-pitch softball tournament, sand volleyball tournament, street dance, and chicken barbecue.

Area attractions and local businesses include Kings Island amusement park, Great Wolf Lodge hotel / indoor water park, Procter & Gamble's Mason Business Center, the headquarters of Luxottica Retail, Cintas corporate headquarters, and the Lindner Family Tennis Center which hosts the historic Cincinnati Masters tennis tournament.

The main events include the two-day main fishing tournament, a children's fishing derby, a carnival, and a parade.

Sporting events include 5 km / 10 km runs ( and a 3 km run for kids ), a fencing invitational, bike rides, and a golf tournament.

Polgár then tied for first in the Hastings tournament held over New Years, 1992 – 93.

Immediately following the Hastings tournament, Polgár played an exhibition match in February against former World Champion, Boris Spassky.

The most famous tournament held in Britain is probably the Hastings International Chess Congress, which runs from late December to early January.

In the famous Hastings 1895 chess tournament, Gunsberg finished with a − 3 score of 9 / 21, good for a share of 15th – 16th place out of 22 competitors.

He is perhaps best known for the game he lost to the former world champion Wilhelm Steinitz at Hastings 1895, especially because he just left the tournament room instead of resigning:

These included the minor tournament at the great Hastings 1895 tournament, where he finished equal second, behind Géza Maróczy, and was awarded the Newnes Cup for the best result by a British amateur.

At age 22, he won one of the strongest tournaments of the time ( the Hastings 1895 chess tournament ) but his illness and early death prevented him from challenging for the World Chess Championship.

The Brooklyn chess club sponsored his journey to Europe to play in the Hastings 1895 chess tournament, in which all the greatest players of the time participated.

His next major tournament was in Saint Petersburg the same year, a six-round round-robin tournament between four of the top five finishers at Hastings ( Pillsbury, Chigorin, Lasker and Steinitz ; Tarrasch did not play ).

In all likelihood, his best performance occurred at the Hastings 1895 chess tournament, where he placed second, ahead of reigning world champion Emanuel Lasker, Tarrasch and former world champion Steinitz.

He won the " minor " tournament at Hastings 1895, and over the next ten years he won several first prizes in international events.

* 1895-Hastings 1895 chess tournament at Hastings, England.

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.

Following the success of the event, the Hastings tournament would become an annual feature.

So unless you include Capablanca as an American player, I think you can go back to Pillsbury at Hastings 1895 for an American tournament victory on par with Nakamura ’ s.

However Sunderland were subsequently disqualified from the rest of the tournament after it was revealed they had played ineligible professional players ; Monaghan, Richardson and Hastings, who had been “ imported ” from Dumfries for the match.