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Yorkshire Chess History |
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1857: Huddersfield v Wakefield |
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Played at Huddersfield, on Saturday, 31/10/1857, over 6 boards.
Huddersfield and Wakefield played a match on 31/10/1857, at Huddersfield, for a prize of a set of Staunton chessmen.
The Leeds Mercury of 07/11/1857, p.6, listed the players in each team (assumed here to have been in board order), and gave the results as 9 wins to Wakefield, 7 wins to Huddersfield, and two draws. It did not, however, detail who beat, or drew, with whom.
On this basis, the incomplete match details appear to be as follows:
The dramatis personae would appear to have been as follows:
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Created 23/04/2014 |
Stephen John Mann |
Last Updated 23/04/2014 |