This somewhat different weekend marked the 40th Anniversary of the formation of Darnall & Handsworth Chess Club in Sheffield. The writer was the first secretary of the club, which was formed primarily of Sheffield & District Works League players and hence did not “poach” existing S&DCA players from other clubs, excepting the writer who was S&DCA secretary (or some such) at the time, playing in the S&DCA hitherto for Rotherham as well playing in the Works League. Initial members resided mainly in or around the Sheffield suburbs of Darnall and Handsworth, hence the club’s now somewhat misleading name. Geoff Brown (Sheffield Transport), organiser of this event, was, with the writer (Neepsend plc) and the late but not forgotten Dave Hodgett (South Yorkshire Police), was one of the three primary co-founders of the club.

Friday’s 9-round Blitz had 22 participants and resulted as follows:

No	Name	Rtg		1			2			3			4			5			6			7			8			9		SPS	Prize
																															*
1	Andrew J Ledger	2366	1	B	10	1	W	8	1	B	6	1	W	2	1	B	5	½	W	3	1	B	7	1	W	13	1	B	9		1st
	Woodseats			1			2			3			4			5			5½			6½			7½			8½		43	£125
2	Robert Starley	2006	1	W	13	1	B	9	1	W	3	0	B	1	1	W	7	1	B	8	1	W	5	1	B	10	1	B	6		2nd
	Sandwich			1			2			3			3			4			5			6			7			8		39	£75
3	Toby Quaite	1917	1	B	4	1	W	17	0	B	2	1	W	14	1	B	9	½	B	1	1	W	6	½	W	5	1	W	15		3rd
	Leeds Junior Chess Club			1			2			2			3			4			4½			5½			6			7		35	£50
4	Shamil Khadaev	1833	0	W	3	0	B	7	1	W	22	½	B	11	0	W	17	1	B	19	1	W	18	1	B	16	1	B	5
	Darnall & Handsworth			0			0			1			1½			1½			2½			3½			4½			5½		20
5	Ben Barton	1803	1	W	7	1	B	15	½	W	11	1	B	6	0	W	1	1	W	9	0	B	2	½	B	3	0	W	4
	York University			1			2			2½			3½			3½			4½			4½			5			5		31.5
6	Szilard Tamas	1908	1	W	19	1	B	14	0	W	1	0	W	5	1	B	10	1	W	12	0	B	3	1	B	8	0	W	2
	Darnall & Handsworth			1			2			2			2			3			4			4			5			5		28
7	Gnana Revanth Potu	1533	0	B	5	1	W	4	1	B	19	½	W	8	0	B	2	½	B	16	0	W	1	1	B	18	1	W	14		Rtg
	Sheffield University			0			1			2			2½			2½			3			3			4			5		23	£25
8	Ben Assirati	1744	1	W	22	0	B	1	1	W	15	½	B	7	1	B	14	0	W	2	½	B	12	0	W	6	½	W	10
	Hendon			1			1			2			2½			3½			3½			4			4			4½		26
9	Paul D Doherty	1752	1	B	12	0	W	2	1	B	13	1	W	10	0	W	3	0	B	5	½	W	16	1	B	11	0	W	1
	Bolton			1			1			2			3			3			3			3½			4½			4½		25.5
10	Andy Yang	1682	0	W	1	1	B	22	1	W	16	0	B	9	0	W	6	1	B	17	1	W	14	0	W	2	½	B	8
	Bolton			0			1			2			2			2			3			4			4			4½		22.5
11	Peter Jaszkiwskyj	1907	0	B	17	1	W	19	½	B	5	½	W	4	0	B	12	½	W	13	1	B	22	0	W	9	1	B	18
	Kettering			0			1			1½			2			2			2½			3½			3½			4½		20.5
12	K Noman Ahmed	0	0	W	9	0	B	16	1	W	18	1	B	22	1	W	11	0	B	6	½	W	8	0	B	14	1	W	17
	Darnall & Handsworth			0			0			1			2			3			3			3½			3½			4½		20.5
13	Finlay W Moreland	1663	0	B	2	1	W	18	0	W	9	1	B	15	0	W	16	½	B	11	1	W	17	0	B	1	1	W	22
	West Leeds			0			1			1			2			2			2½			3½			3½			4½		20
14	Tadeusz Gumulka	1732	1	B	18	0	W	6	1	B	17	0	B	3	0	W	8	1	W	15	0	B	10	1	W	12	0	B	7
	Sheffield Chess Centre			1			1			2			2			2			3			3			4			4		22
15	Brendan Haswell	1542	1	W	16	0	W	5	0	B	8	0	W	13	1	B	18	0	B	14	1	W	19	1	W	22	0	B	3
	Darnall & Handsworth			1			1			1			1			2			2			3			4			4		19
16	Nathaniel Holroyd-Doveton	1819	0	B	15	1	W	12	0	B	10	½	W	17	1	B	13	½	W	7	½	B	9	0	W	4	0	B	19
	Rotherham			0			1			1			1½			2½			3			3½			3½			3½		19.5
17	George D Boothman	1552	1	W	11	0	B	3	0	W	14	½	B	16	1	B	4	0	W	10	0	B	13	1	W	19	0	B	12
	Ravenfield			1			1			1			1½			2½			2½			2½			3½			3½		19
18	Jiwei Yu	0	0	W	14	0	B	13	0	B	12	1	W	19	0	W	15	1	B	22	0	B	4	0	W	7	0	W	11
	Cheshire Junior Knights			0			0			0			1			1			2			2			2			2		10
19	Matthew Edwards	1553	0	B	6	0	B	11	0	W	7	0	B	18	1	W	22	0	W	4	0	B	15	0	B	17	1	W	16
	Kettering			0			0			0			0			1			1			1			1			2		6
20	Singh Adamjeet	1586	½	-	bye	½	-	bye
	Leeds Junior Chess Club			½			1			1			1			1			1			1			1			1		8.5
21	Amandeep Singh	1544	½	-	bye	½	-	bye
	Leeds Junior Chess Club			½			1			1			1			1			1			1			1			1		8.5
22	Adam P Fairclough	0	0	B	8	0	W	10	0	B	4	0	W	12	0	B	19	0	W	18	0	W	11	0	B	15	0	B	13
	Woodseats			0			0			0			0			0			0			0			0			0		0

* Prizes shown are as per webmaster’s interpretation of results, but this independent report is not official.