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Yorkshire Chess History |
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1908: Northern Counties Chess Union Congress, Blackpool |
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Played from 24/02/1908 to 28/02/1908, at the Park House, Claremont Park, Blackpool.
There were three sections: Championship, Major and Minor.
The Open cross-table (with gaps) and final scores was as follows:
Not all game results are to hand, those above are mainly from the Yorkshire Post of 28/02/1908. Final scores are as given in Chess Amateur vol 2, p. 195.
The presence of a Lincolnshire player may seem incongruous, but in the North v South matches Lincolnshire was in “the North”, and was one of the original “Northern Counties”.
Players and scores in the Major, run in two sections, were
Jeffery had withdrawn part way through, resigning unplayed games (result unknown). An unfinished play-off game between Wahltuch and Wolstencroft had to be sent for adjudication. Presumably there was no play-off between section winners, so they would have shared the prizes..
Players and scores in the Minor were
Barrett and Salthouse shared first prize with no play-off. T. Salthouse was a blind player.
A blind Hungarian player reportedly numbered among the entrants. (Surely T. Salthouse was not Hungarian.)
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Created 24/10/2019 |
Stephen John Mann |
Last Updated 24/10/2019 |