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What constitutes a
chess club is not as clear as might seem. Some clubs are formed, then lapse
and fade away, and sometimes new clubs of the same name are born at a later
date. The start of a new club is more often reported than the decease
of an existing one. The following list includes some of what has come
to the writer’s notice so far. There were obviously a number of
other Yorkshire clubs not yet listed. Start and end dates are given
where to hand, but sometimes the best that can be done is to give dates when
a club was known to exist, without the start and/or end date being known.
Details of sources for the dates given will be in the articles on said clubs,
when written and uploaded. Some local associations are included.
Some widely-quoted early dates are difficult to substantiate. Some
clubs etc outside Yorkshire are included.
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Started
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Existed
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Existed
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Ended
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Club
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1820
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Leeds Chess Club (1)
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1834
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Leeds Chess Club (2)
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1834
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Doncaster Chess Club
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1837
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Wakefield Chess Club
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1838
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Sheffield Chess Club (1)
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1840
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1847
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Halifax Chess Club (1)
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1841
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????
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Huddersfield Chess Club (1)
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1842*
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Bingley
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1842*
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Bradford (1)
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1842*
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Hull
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1842*
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Malton
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1842*
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Settle
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1842*
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Sheffield
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<=1842*
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York (1)
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1842
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????
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Halifax Clarence Chess Club
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1847
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Sheffield
Athenaeum Chess Club
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1848
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????
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Halifax Chess Club (2)
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1849
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1851
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Sheffield Athenaeum & Mechanics Institution Chess
Club, renamed . . .
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1851
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1854
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Sheffield
Lyceum Chess Club
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1852
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Halifax St. George’s Chess Club
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1852
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Huddersfield Chess Club (2)
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1853
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Bradford Chess Club (2)
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1859
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Holmfirth Chess Club
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1859
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Settle Chess Club
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1859
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Whitby Chess Club
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1860
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Beverley Chess Club
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1868
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Halifax Chess Club (3)
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1869
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1886
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Rotherham Chess Club (1)
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1873
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1881
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St. Peter's Chess Club (Sheffield)
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1874
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Hull Church Institute Chess Club
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1874
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York Chess Club (2)
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1876
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Penistone Chess Club
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1877
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Hull St. James Church Chess Club
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1878
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Doncaster YMCA Chess Club
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1878
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Scarborough Chess Club
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1879
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Dewsbury Chess Club
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1881
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Arundel Chess Club (Sheffield)
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1883
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Sheffield & District Chess Association
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1883
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Tees Side Chess Association
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1884
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Harrogate Chess Club
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1885
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Sheffield Reform Chess Club
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1886
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Burley-in-Wharfdale Chess Club
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1886
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Grosmont Chess Club
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1886
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Harrogate Chess Club
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1886
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Leeds Chess & Draughts Club
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1886
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Ripon Chess Club
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1886
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Windmill Chess Club (Shipley)
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1886
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Withernsea Chess Club
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1886
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Ilkley Chess Club
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1887
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1890
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Heckmondwike Chess Club
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1888
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Otley
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1890
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Birstall
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1894
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c.1915
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Rotherham Chess Club (2)
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1900
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Hutton's Chess Club (Sheffield)
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1905
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Sheffield Chess Club
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1906
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WW1
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Chesterfield Chess Club
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1919
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Rotherham Chess Club (3)
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1924
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Chesterfield and District Chess Club
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* These seven locations,
along with Leeds, Doncaster, Wakefield, Halifax and Huddersfield, were
described as having (or having recently had, in the case of York) chess
circles or clubs, in an article describing chess in England, appearing in Le
Palamède of 1842 (issue no. 7).
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