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Yorkshire Individual Lightning Championship Trophy

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Yorkshire Chess Association president, Dr. C. G. Addingley, presented a silver trophy for an individual lightning trophy in 1970. The inscription read as follows:

YORKSHIRE CHESS ASSOCIATION

LIGHTNING CHAMPIONSHIP

Presented by

Dr. C. G. ADDINGLEY

JAN. 1970

The trophy bore the “D & B” maker’s mark of Docker & Burn Ltd., and the 1921 Birmingham sterling silver hallmarks. The trophy was thus not of recent manufacture when presented. (The 1946 year letter is similar to that of 1921, but Docker & Burn appear not to have been producing as late as 1946.)

The winners in the first eleven years of the trophy’s life were as follows:

1970	B. Eley
1971	B. Eley
1972	M. J. Haygarth
1973	J. Tolan & N. Povah
1974	M. J. Haygarth
1975	D. I. Lister
1976	P. Blackman
1977	P.G. Large
1978	P. Blackman
1979	P. Blackman
1980	P. Blackman

Discontinuation of the organisation of the competition, seems to have led to the loss of the trophy.

Created

02/08/2014

Last Updated

02/08/2014