Saturday 20th of May saw the second batch of quarter-finals of the ECF Counties’ Championships in the Under-2050 and Under-1650 sections. Pairings for teams of NCCU counties with headline results were as follows:

Section	Home County		Away County	Venue	½‑Final Pairing of Winner played on 10-11/06/2023
Under-2050	Northumberland	7-9	Surrey	?	away to Warwickshire
Under-1650	Yorkshire	12-3	Surrey	?	home to Essex
Under‑1650	Greater Manchester	8-2	Middlesex	?	away to Warwickshire

Thus, two of the teams got through to the semi-finals but Northumberland Under 2050s bowed out. That still means 9 of the 10 semi-final matches scheduled for 10/06/2023 are being contested by Northern counties.

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 2050

		Northumberland	7-9	Surrey
B	2027 (2011)	Nathan Ekanem	½-½	John P Foley	2037 (2042)
W	1944 (1989)	Marcos Casos Huerta	½-½	Ian N Heppell	1994 (1998)
B	1989 (1989)	Shakhbozkhon Saliev	0-1	Julien M Shepley	1982 (1952)
W	1926 (1985)	Ravi Wariyar	0-1	Philip M Stimpson	1944 (1947)
B	1961 (1961)	Kavin Velmurugan	1-0	Paul D Dupré	1983 (1943)
W	1955 (1960)	Yaroslav Kolodiy	½-½	Paul JJ Gibbons	1908 (1908)
B	1915 (1937)	Robin J Nandi	1-0	Michael R Smart	1908 (1900)
W	1841 (1895)	Murray Pollock	½-½	Neil T Davies	1916 (1896)
B	1811 (1826)	Stuart Skelsey	0-1	Jonathan M Eckert	1895 (1827)
W	1819 (1819)	Shakti Sood	1-0	Graham P Alcock	1825 (1808)
B	1721 (1719)	Ian B Chester	0-1	James Fox	1825 (1774)
W	1697 (1693)	Dalil Benchebra	½-½	John Polanyk	1706 (1744)
B	1655 (1679)	Morgan French	0-1	Michael Wickham	1716 (1729)
W	1655 (1635)	Aaron Welson	0-1	Alexey Markov	1703 (1719)
B	1487 (1552)	Ryan JG Duff	1-0	Nicholas D Grey	1761 (1707)
W	1401 (1474)	Ethan Tatters	½-½	John B Illingworth	1674 (1667)

		Under 1650

		Yorkshire	12-3	Surrey
B	1453 (1710)	Daniel Meredith	0-1	David Carpenter	1619 (1678)
W	1472 (1694)	Elinor Gorrell	1-0	Alan P Romeril	1623 (1634)
B	1631 (1629)	John Grasham	0-1	Mark S Ashley	1638 (1632)
W	1553 (1608)	Jacob Smith	1-0	Michael J Gunn	1633 (1603)
B	1646 (1604)	Ian D Strickland	1d0	Marek K Turowski (def)	1579 (1579)
W	1588 (1591)	Alex Burke	1-0	Aziz Sannie	1523 (1535)
B	1547 (1547)	Callum Whitton	0-1	Ben Widdicombe	1441 (1504)
W	1510 (1535)	Colin Frank	1-0	Venerando Bermudez	1564 (1493)
B	1530 (1424)	Isaac Fossey	1-0	Stephen T Welch	1460 (1474)
W	1479 (1505)	John Tate	1d0	Barry S Miles (def)	1539 (1473)
B	1501 (1640)	Pierre De Beco	1-0	Russell Hope	1475 (1447)
W	1524 (1500)	John G Taylor	1-0	Zoya Boozorginia	1260 (1301)
B	1406 (1497)	Charlie Wainwright	1-0	H Martin Dale	1249 (1217)
W	1492 (1494)	Stephen Forbes	1-0	Tony Belton	1202 (1199)
B	1470 ()	Nicholas J Shaw	1-0	Kamaljit Sood	1158 (1118)
W	0103 ()	Default	0-0	Default	0103 ()

		Greater Manchester	8-2	Middlesex
B	1576 (1648)	Hunain Malik	1-0	Vibhush Pusapadi	1542 (1630)
W	1629 (1637)	Graham Phythian	0-1	Joseph B Farrell	1626 (1621)
B	1539 (1551)	David Veress	½-½	Cormac O'Caolaidhe	1544 (1529)
W	1480 (1535)	Joel Prittie	½-½	Nicholas Nardecchia	1507 (1506)
B	1472 (1523)	Rebecca Correa	1-0	Riya Aude Barbier-Ramaiah	1422 (1452)
W	1522 (1522)	Isaac Roberts	1-0	Patrick P Sartain	1520 (1440)
B	1498 (1500)	Ethan Parker	1-0	John Miraghaie	1419 (1408)
W	1420 (1453)	David Kilmartin	1-0	Rohan Theo Barbier‑Ramaiah	1255 (1394)
B	1316 (1368)	Edward Correa	1-0	Jennifer Goldsmith	1449 (1386)
W	1300 (1506)	Leo Ogilvie	1-0	Peter Merrifield	1112 (1147)

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