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Yorkshire Chess History |
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1933-34: Inter-County Matches |
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1) Northern Counties Chess Union
It would appear only four counties entered the competition for the NCCU team championship, Cheshire, Lancashire, Northumberland and Yorkshire. The season proved to be an unusual one.
The first round pairings were Cheshire versus Lancashire and Northumberland versus Yorkshire, both to be played on 20/01/1934.
Cheshire duly met Lancashire at Warrington, on 20/01/1934, over 40 boards. At cessation of player the score stood at 18-17 in favour of Cheshire, with 5 games for adjudication. Cheshire was expected to get a further 2½ points from the adjudications, sufficient to win the match. In the event the captains agreed a package which left the score at 20-20, but left Cheshire with a win by the board-elimination tie-break rule, so giving Cheshire their first-ever victory over Lancashire.
Yorkshire fared no better than Lancashire. The match was due to be played at Newcastle. Twenty-five invitations to play were issued to Yorkshire players, but only four players accepted their invitations, the main reason for declining being the difficulties of travel to Newcastle. Consequently, Yorkshire had to concede, so withdrawing from the competition.
Accordingly, the NCCU final was contested by Cheshire and Northumberland. The match was played at Leeds, on 17/03/1934, over 16 boards. At close of play, only eight games had finished, four having been won by Northumberland, the other four having been drawn. The adjudications resulted in a further two wins apiece, with four more draws. The score thus gave Northumberland victory over Cheshire by 10 points to 6, making Northumberland NCCU champion county.
2) Yorkshire v Lancashire Friendly Match
Yorkshire and Lancashire, who will have hoped to meet in the NCCU final, instead played a friendly match, over 23 boards, at the Gambit Cafe, Leeds, on 03/03/1934. Yorkshire president I. M. Brown was due to be present, but was unable to attend due to illness, so perhaps 24 boards had been the intention. The players on board 23 were both schoolboys. The match was drawn 11½ points apiece, as follows:
3) British Chess Federation, County & District Correspondence Championship, 1934
Yorkshire had won this event for the first time in 1932, with 21½ game points out of 30. In 1933 Cambridgeshire had won with 20½ points, while Yorkshire scored 19. In 1934, Yorkshire finished with 18 out of 30. The event is run according to the “Jamboree” system.
Lancashire made up for a disappointing showing in over-the-board county chess by winning the national correspondence championship with the highest ever score out of 30, namely 23. (In 1929, Middlesex had won with 23½ out of 36.) Final scores and placings of the twenty-four participating teams were as follows;
Individual Yorkshire players’ results were as follows:
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Created 21/08/2013 |
Stephen John Mann |
Last Updated 21/08/2013 |