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The thirteenth annual Northern Counties Chess Union Congress was held

from Monday 06/01/1913 to Saturday 11/01/1913,

at Park House, Claremont Park, Blackpool.

There were three sections grouping players according to level of playing strength: the Championship section, the Major section and the Minor section.

The Championship had 7 participants.  The winner of the Championship section would be Northern Counties Chess Champion and hold for a year the Dr. Wahltuch trophy.  The Major had 6 participants.  W. Parry of Liverpool had been listed before the event as an entrant, but did not in fact participate.  The Minor had 8 entrants divided into two groups, with a play-off between winners of the two groups.

A 7-player all-play-all requires seven rounds.  The Championship games were fitted into 6 days by having three games starting together in a day’s morning session, with the player who was not involved in those three games starting a game in that day’s evening session.  Thus six players had one game in a given day, while the seventh had two.  Adjourned games were played out in afternoon sessions, and if necessary in the evening session subject to neither player being involved in the scheduled evening game.

Prizes were presented by Councillor J. Burgess of Manchester.

The tabular summary of Championship results (not indicating colour) was as follows [Yorkshire Post & Leeds Intellegencer, 13/01/1913].

	Championship Section		Y	D	C	Bu	Ba	T	Be	Total
1	Fred Dewhirst Yates	Birstall	XX	1	1	½	1	1	1	5½
2	Climenson  Yelverton Charles Dawbarn	Liverpool	0	XX	½	1	1	1	1	4½
3	Robert Sayle Corlett	Liverpool	0	½	XX	½	1	1	1	4
4	Harold Alvin Burton	Pontefract	½	0	½	XX	½	1	1	3½
5‑6	Rev Arthur William Baxter	Rochdale	0	0	0	½	XX	½	½	1½
5‑6	William Rowland Thomas	Liverpool	0	0	0	0	½	XX	1	1½
7	William John Berryman	Barnsley	0	0	0	0	½	0	XX	½

Yates was the winner in the previous year.  Burton was the reigning Yorkshire Champion.  Corlett was the oldest participant.

Final placings in the Major were as follows.  (Not all game results to hand at time of writing.)

	Major Section		1	2	3	4	5	6	Total
1‑4	C A Mann *	Gomersal	XX	1	0				3
1-4	John Herbert Milton	Liverpool	0	XX			1		3
1-4	Rev James Legard Peach	Malton	1		XX	1	0		3
1-4	Julius Wahltuch	Manchester			0	XX			3
5	Rev James William Wilkinson	Rochdale		0	1		XX	1	2½
6	J Hill	Altrincham					0	XX	½

* a pseudonym of Henry Ashwell Cadman

The first four shared the three place prizes.

Results in the Minor were as follows [final totals based on Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 13/01/1913]:

	Minor Section A		1	2	3	4	Tot
1	Joshua Nield	Blackpool	XX	1	1	1	3
2-3	B Copley		0	XX	½	1	1½
2-3	J W Watts		0	½	XX	1	1½
4	J Brayshaw	Waterloo	0	0	0	XX	0
	Minor Section B		1	2	3	4	5	Tot
1	Enoch Henry Whetstone *	Blackpool	XX					3
2	John Rostron Scarr	Liverpool		XX				2
3	F Newsome	Dewsbury			XX			1
4	W Curwen Barrett	Manchester				XX		0

* listed in some newspaper reports of the event, erroneously, as “C. H. Whetstone”.

Nield beat Whetstone in the play-off.

Created 15/11/2017

Stephen John Mann

Last Updated 09/11/2020