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Northern Counties Chess Union

Established 1899

A constituent unit of the English Chess Federation

 

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Individual Championships

 

 

 

 

1) Competitions for the annual NCCU Individual Championships are as follows:

 

Championship

Trophy

Instituted

Individual

Dr Wahltuch Championship Trophy

1908

Senior

John Littlewood NCCU Seniors’ Trophy

2014

Junior (U-18)

Edmund Spencer Memorial Cup

1954?

Correspondence

Batsford Prize

?

 

Normally the top three (over-the-board) ones are hosted at a weekend congress of not less than five rounds, organised by a county affiliated to the NCCU.

(See table to right for recent congresses hosting the championships.)

 

Alphabetical rotation normally determines to which county the option falls in a given year, though sometimes a county will “pass”, and sometimes variations are agreed for one reason or another.  The Individual Championships were not run in 2019-20 or 2021-22 due to Covid.

 

Rules for the above competitions are to be found here.

 

Winners from previous years are archived here.

 

 

 

 

Counties hosting the o-t-b Championships in recent

years and the congresses involved are as follows.

 

Year

County

Congress

2022/23

Yorkshire

Doncaster

2021/22

Durham

Durham

(Northumberland ceding?)

2020/21

Covid19. Not held

2019/20

Covid19. Not held

2018/19

Lancashire

Blackpool

 

(Merseyside passing)

2017/18

Lancashire

Heywood

2016/17

Durham

Durham

2015/16

Cumbria

South Lakes

2014/15

Yorkshire

Sheffield

2013/14

Northumberland

Newcastle

 

(Merseyside passing)

2012/13

Lancashire

Heywood

2011/12

Durham

Durham Congress

2010/11

Cumbria

Cumbria Open, Penrith

2009/10

Cleveland

Middlesbrough

2008/09

Yorkshire

York

2007/08

Northumberland

Cleveland

2006/07

Merseyside

Liverpool

2005/06

Lancashire

Heywood

2004/05

Durham

Durham

2003/04

Cumbria

South Lakes (05/06/04)

2002/03

Cleveland

Hartlepool (02/03/2003)

2001/02

Yorkshire

York (01/02/2002)

2000/01

Northumberland

Newcastle

1999/00

Merseyside

Abdicated, Cumbria

1998/09

Lancashire

Heywood

1997/08

Durham

Durham

1996/07

Cumbria

South Lakes

1995/06

Cleveland

Redcar

1994/05

Cheshire & NW

Crewe

1993/04

Yorkshire

York

 

2) NCCU Individual Junior Age-Group Championships (now defunct)

 

Over the weekend 24th-25th August 2000, an inaugural NCCU Individual Junior Championship event was held for age groups U-8, U9, U-10, U-11, U-12, U-13, U-14, U-16 and U-18.  These junior championships seem to have lapsed after 2008, and were acknowledged to be defunct at the 2010 NCCU AGM, though the Boys Under-18 has continued, as mentioned above, embedded within a congress which is not specifically a junior one.

 

 

3) Individual Correspondence Championship (now dormant or defunct)

 

Results from the past are archived here.