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Narrative: 5) Yorkshire Chess Association Meetings of 1841 to 1845

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The first YCA meeting was held at Leeds on Monday 18^th January 1841. The next three meetings were held in November, so that first meeting might be thought of as the 1840 meeting running two months late, due to things taking time to get started up.

The second meeting was held at Wakefield on Monday 8^th November 1841.

The third meeting was held at Halifax on Wednesday 2^nd November 1842.

The fourth meeting was held at Huddersfield on Wednesday 8^th November 1843.

The meeting of 1844 was due to be held in Leeds, which was agreed at the Huddersfield meeting. Also at the Huddersfield meeting, however, the visiting players from Nottingham, led by Samuel Newham, had invited the Yorkshire players to join them in Nottingham for the annual club meeting of similar type on 19^th December [1843]. This was agreed to, but in the event, the Nottingham meeting was much delayed, and it was decided to postpone the next YCA meeting to 1845. The secretary of Leeds Chess Club wrote a letter to the editor of the Chess Player’s Chronicle, therein reproduced in volume V, 1844, p.184, as follows.

TO THE EDITOR OF “THE CHESS PLAYER’S CHRONICLE.”
Sir,-	Leeds, 27^th April, 1844
THE proposed meeting of the Yorkshire Chess Associations [sic], has (after correspondence with the Secretaries of the Clubs, who usually support the meetings) been postponed until the second Wednesday of May ,1845, at Leeds, in order not to interfere with the National Chess Demonstration at Nottingham next June.
I am, Sir, yours respectfully,
	HAMILTON RICHARDSON, Hon. Dec. to the Leeds Chess Club

The fifth meeting of the YCA thus was held at Leeds on Wednesday 14^th May 1845.

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