The weekend of 13th and 14th of May saw the quarter-finals of the ECF Counties’ Championships in the Under-1850, Under-1450 and Minor County sections. (U-2050 & U-1650 ¼-finals are scheduled for the following weekend.) Pairings for teams of NCCU counties, all matches played on the Saturday, with headline results were as follows:

Section	Home County		Away County	Venue	½‑Final Pairing of Winner played on 10-11/06/2023
Under-1850	Yorkshire	9-7	Essex		away to Norfolk
Under-1850	Greater Manchester	11½‑3½	Hertfordshire	Tyseley WMC, Birmingham	away to Middlesex
Under‑1450	Nottinghamshire	2-10	Greater Manchester		away to Surrey or Midd’x
Under‑1450	Yorkshire		bye	-	home to Staffs. or Essex

Match result details were as follows. Ratings given are those of September 2022 which confer eligibility as regards rating, with the current (May) ones in parentheses.

		Under 1850

		Greater Manchester	11½‑3½	Hertfordshire
?	1752 (1861)	Christopher Hodgson	0-1	Sean Burton	1823 (1916)
?	1805 (1812)	Tetsuaki Sanada	1-0	Roger H Gordonsmith	1835 (1849)
?	1758 (1807)	Armand Catz	½-½	Paul Walton	1810 (1844)
?	1783 (1803)	Michael Oszczyk	1-0	Michelle Ngo Yu Chan	1726 (1822)
?	1812 (1789)	David Stuttard	0-1	Brian D Judkins	1768 (1791)
?	1752 (1783)	David Kierman	1-0	David Willsher	1775 (1776)
?	1659 (1783)	Alexander Burke	1-0	Tim Acton	1766 (1762)
?	1804 (1774)	Chris Jardine	½-½	Duncan Marshall	1694 (1760)
?	1787 (1771)	Michael I Connor	1-0	Matthew P Ball	1745 (1757)
?	1765 (1766)	Borja Diaz-Guardamino	½-½	James H Aldred	1738 (1751)
?	1766 (1762)	Simon Wright	1-0	Default	0115 ()
?	1733 (1754)	Gareth NR Griffiths	1-0	Louis Cowell	1570 (1618)
?	1611 (1730)	Richard Leese	1-0	Corinne Mountford	1641 (1589)
?	1648 (1691)	Joel McBeath	1-0	Charlie J Ball	1531 (1589)
?	1629 (1637)	Graham Phythian	1-0	Default	0115 ()
?	0115 ()	Default	0-0	Default	0115 ()

		Yorkshire	9-7	Essex
B	1827 (1814)	Bernie T Hare	0-1	Ruqayyah Rida	1565 (2013)
W	1834 (1813)	David A Patrick	½-½	Peter R Laundy	1840 (1879)
B	1761 (1802)	Martin A Store	½-½	Alexandr Pereslavtsev	1722 (1849)
W	1808 (1799)	Rupert W Jones	1-0	Ryan Colclough	1624 (1813)
B	1745 (1751)	Owen R Robson	1-0	Ian P Woodward	1805 (1812)
W	1806 (1749)	Gary Corcoran	1-0	Andrew P Willoughby	1734 (1787)
B	1633 (1742)	Vivien Webster	0-1	Christopher Willoughby	1731 (1779)
W	1692 (1741)	James Wong	0-1	Alan E Riddoch	1784 (1759)
B	1755 (1735)	Dave Colledge	1-0	Peter DJ McCarron	1731 (1737)
W	1732 (1726)	Paul G Day	1-0	Ian P Morgan	1785 (1730)
B	1751 (1716)	Paul RH Clarke	0-1	Ben Harte	1726 (1715)
W	1668 (1683)	Stephen Firth	½-½	Peter A Nickals	1728 (1705)
B	1666 (1677)	Robert Mitchell	0-1	Trevor A Dickerson	1702 (1699)
W	1703 (1676)	John K Holliday	1-0	Sergey Pereslavtsev	1587 (1638)
B	1652 (1657)	Nigel Redmond	1-0	Davi Diniz Afonso	1596 (1596)
W	1631 (1629)	John Grasham	½-½	Krishna Raikundalia	1542 (1582)

		Under 1450

		Nottinghamshire	2-10	Greater Manchester
?	1411 (1447)	Daniel Walker	0-1	Marcus Fung	1440 (1670)
?	1448 (1438)	John Pocock	½-½	Mahin Rughani	1365 (1563)
?	1432 (1420)	Gavin Dow	1-0	Jeff Wilson	1378 (1498)
?	1409 (1420)	Maksim Krasnov	0-1	William Fairclough	1428 (1484)
?	1413 (1408)	Christopher Cumbers	½-½	Becky Kerton	1413 (1472)
?	1410 (1382)	Stephen Morley	0-1	David Kilmartin	1420 (1453)
?	1313 (1336)	Mick J Frings	0-1	Yin Chu	1448 (1435)
?	1297 (1243)	Simon Parham	0-1	Chris Lysons	1409 (1434)
?	1329 (1237)	Jos Dent	0-1	Edward Chu	1247 (1424)
?	1105 (1156)	Roger Southward	0-1	J Coupe	1364 (1422)
?	1092 (1117)	Charlie Carr	0-1	Lewis Sheehy	1361 (1387)
?	0922 (956)	Michael James	0-1	Claire Kerton	1283 (1355)

Other results in summary and resultant semi-final pairings are given here.