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02/05/2023

Hebden Bridge On-Line Success

During the COVID pandemic and the attendant lock-down, there was an explosion in on-line chess, and that stretched to the 4NCL which still runs on-line team competitions, both adult and junior, and even on-line congresses which seems something of an etymological contradiction in terms.  The 4NCL On-Line Season 4 held back in the latter half of 2021 included 14 Yorkshire-based teams.

Since the return of over-the-board competition, engagement by those 14 Yorkshire-based teams in the 4NCL on-line competitions has largely ceased, except by Hebden Bridge chess club who had 3 teams again in the 4NCL On-Line Season 7, the finals of which took place on Tuesday 2nd May 2023.

Hebden Bridge 1 was in Division 2, which was initially run with two parallel 8-team all-play-all groups of 4-player teams followed by semi-final and final knockout stages held among the top 2 teams from each group.  In Group B, Hebden Bridge finished 1st after a tie-break with Oxford 2, both having clocked up 11 match points and 18½ game points, but with Oxford having defaulted 2 games and Hebden Bridge having won the teams’ individual encounter.

In the semi-finals, Hebden Bridge 1 beat Wessex Some Stars C, going on the beat Morpeth in the final, so becoming Division 2 champions.

4NCL On-Line Season 7, Division 2
	Semi-Final		25/04/2023
	Hebden Bridge 1	3½-½	Wessex Some Stars C
W	Philip Cook	1-0	Mircea-Marius Mesesan
B	Christopher Bak	½-½	Rajasekhar Pentakota
W	Andrew Clarkson	1-0	Simon Matthew Redmill
B	David Shapland	1-0	John P Weatherlake
	Final		02/05/2023
	Morpeth	1-3	Hebden Bridge 1
W	Roger H Coathup	0-1	Philip Cook
B	C Mike Smyth	0-1	Christopher Bak
W	Phil Eastlake	0-1	Greg T Eagleton
B	James Turner	1-0	Andrew Clarkson

Hebden Bridge 2 finished 3rd in Group A of Division 4, while Hebden Bridge 3 finished 5th in Group B of Division 4.