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1886: Leeds v Tees Side CA |
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Played at Leeds, on the evening of Wednesday, 27/02/1886, over 18 boards.
Play commenced at 7.30 p.m. and ended at 10.30 p.m., at which juncture unfinished games were adjudicated, resulting in a 16-12 win for Tees Side. A brief report, lacking game-by-game detail, was printed by the Sheffield & Rotherham Independent of Saturday, 06/02/1886. The latter report looks like a précis of a report in the Leeds Mercury, as it explains how Leeds lost because they were lacking a number of their top players, and this was due to the negotiations to play a match on February 27th was initiated by Tees Side with a telegram received only 4 days earlier, on the previous Saturday. (Such explanations, as to why Leeds or Yorkshire lost a chess match being due to adverse circumstances beyond their control, were a noticeably recurrent feature of James White’s column in the Mercury.)
The Leeds Mercury Weekly Supplement of 29/01/1886 did indeed carry such a report, on which the S&RI report clearly was based, giving results, and James White’s own game, as follows:
The game on board 3 went as follows:
Tees-side v Leeds, Leeds, 26/01/1886 White: Birks, J (Tees-side), Black: White, James (Leeds) 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. e3 c5 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Nc3 Nf6 6. dxc5 Bxc5 7. Nf3 Nc6 8. a3 a6 9. b4 Ba7 10. Bb2 b5 11. Bd3 Bb7 12. O-O O-O 13. Ne2 Ne4 14. Qc2 f5 15. Rad1 Rc8 16. Qb1 Qe7 17. Nfd4 Bb8 18. f3 Nd6 19. Nxf5 Nxf5 20. Bxf5 Qxe3+ 21. Kh1 Qh6 22. Bh3 Rce8 23. Ng3 Bc8 24. Qd3 Bxh3 25. gxh3 Bxg3 26. Qxd5+ Rf7 27. hxg3 and Black mates in eight moves, 0-1
The identities of the Leeds players would appear to be as follows:
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Created 20/05/2014 |
Stephen John Mann |
Last Updated 20/05/2014 |