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Narrative: 13) The Second “Yorkshire Chess Association” |
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At the end of its report on the North Yorkshire & Durham Chess Association’s meeting of October 1867, in Redcar, the Chess Players’ Quarterly Chronicle, edited by Skipworth and others who were also the promoters of NY&DCA, announced: “In accordance with the suggestion of several leading Chess players of the West Riding, this Association is hereafter to be called
THE YORKSHIRE CHESS ASSOCIATION
as combining the strength and representing the interests of the three Ridings, and holding its Meetings in the county town. The next Meeting of this Association is to be held in York during the latter part of August during the present year.”
Thus a second Yorkshire Chess Association was formed, independently of the original one whose spirit WYCA considered itself to embody, and independently of the lineage of the present YCA. There was, however, some dissatisfaction among members of the West Yorkshire Chess Association with Skipworth’s choice of name for his organisation (see 14) Some Discord over a Choice of Name).
Nevertheless, WYCA had chosen to limit itself by name to the West Riding, and in practice to the much smaller area of the clothing district, so Skipworth couldn’t really be logically be criticised by those without a West Riding bias. The cause of discontent may have been a feeling that there was an implied hierarchical superiority of the new YCA over WYCA.
The first meeting of this second Yorkshire Chess Association was held at York on 3rd August 1868.
The second meeting of the second Yorkshire Chess Association was held at York on 2nd August 1869.
For the next event he organised, Skipworth changed its name again, but this was perhaps more to do with his own expanding aspirations than out of any regard for the feelings of disgruntled members of the West Yorkshire Chess Association.
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