The following is a
catalogue of diverse things falling into the category of chess
“firsts” or chess inventions, of one sort or another, to which
Yorkshire or a Yorkshireman can reasonably lay claim:
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Associations of
clubs
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The first
association of chess clubs in Britain was the original Yorkshire Chess
Association.
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British Chess
Champions
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Click here for a
list of “Yorkshire”
British Chess Champions
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British Chess
Magazine
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The British
Chess Magazine developed out of the chess column run by John Watkinson in the Huddersfield
College Magazine, John Watkinson becoming the BCM’s first editor.
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Chess clocks,
commercial manufacture of
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The first
commercial manufacture of chess clocks was undertaken by the Bradford firm
of Fattorini. (See Antonio
Fattorini.)
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Chess
magazine
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The founding
editor of Chess Magazine, Baruch H. Wood, was born in Sheffield.
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Counties’
Chess Unions, concept of
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Counties’
Chess Unions arose from the pioneering “North versus South”
chess matches which were the brainchild of Isaac McIntyre Brown.
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County Chess
Associations
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The first county
chess association was the original Yorkshire Chess Association.
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County match
winners
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Yorkshire won
the first-ever inter-county chess match.
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Fifty-move rule,
proof of exception to
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Alfred Crosskill was the first
to publish a demonstration a
“won” ending requiring more that 50 moves to force a win.
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Gledhill Attack
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The Gledhill Attack
in the French Defence was named after Walter Gledhill.
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Grimshaw theme
in chess problems
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The Grimshaw theme in chess problems
was named after Walter Grimshaw.
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Hall Variation
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The Hall
Variation in the Centre Game was named after John Edmund Hall.
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International tournament in England, highest placed Briton in
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Marmaduke Wyvill was the
highest-placed Briton in the first-ever international chess tournament in
Britain.
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National Chess
Organisations
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1) The first
national chess organisation in Britain was the British Chess Association
which developed directly from the expansion of the original Yorkshire Chess
Association.
2) The second
was the Counties’ Chess Association which developed directly from the
series of chess meetings run by Arthur Bolland
Skipworth in Redcar and then York.
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Oxford Univ.
team captain in Oxford-Cambridge match
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Walter Parratt
was the captain of the Oxford team in the first
Oxford-Cambridge chess match.
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