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SHEFFIELD Chess History |
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1893: Sheffield Athenaeum C.C. v Rest of Sheffield & D.C.A. |
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Sheffield Athenaeum Chess Club George Street, Sheffield Saturday, 02/12/1893 starting 6.30 p.m. over 18 boards
The S&DCA’s 1893 AGM resolved to issue a challenge to the Sheffield Athenaeum Chess Club for a match between that club and the other S&DCA clubs. The previous such match had been played four years earlier, and the first was played in 1883.
Some of those playing for the Athenaeum were also members of other clubs. One reason for this was that the S&DCA had initiated an inter-club team league starting in the 1893-94 season, but the Sheffield Athenaeum Chess Club had chosen not to participate, so that any of their members who liked the idea of playing in the new league were obliged to join one or other of the competing clubs, whose membership was of course somewhat less “select” than that of the Athenaeum.
The report in the Sheffield & Rotherham Independent of Monday 04/12/1893 noted the absence from the Athenaeum line-up of E. S. Foster (Mayor of Sheffield at the time), F. E. Foster (son of E.S. Foster) and T. A. Peck, and from the Association line-up of the Rev. E. J. Huntsman, J. Crossland, W. Tiptaft, F. Lamb and G. A. Huntsman (son of E. J. Huntsman).
@ denotes result of adjudication of unfinished game (names as given in the Independent)
Sheffield Athenaeum was clearly still Sheffield’s strongest club, though Arundel, when its Athenaeum dual-membership members were added, looked likely to win the league.
Identities of the players, as far as discernible, appear to have been as follows:
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Created 04/10/2013 |
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Last Updated 26/08/2014 |