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Event Results/Reports
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(event date)
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Hull & East Riding Rapidplay
2026
First event of the New Year
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04/01/2026
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Sheffield Christmas
Congress
Outright winner in each
section
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30/12/2025
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NCCU Under
2050 and Under 1450
last two matches before the New Year
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14/12/2025
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42nd
Bolton Rapidplay
Gediminas Sarakauskas and Nigel R Davies head Open
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07/12/2025
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3rd
Sheffield International
on Sheffield & DCA website
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30/11/2025
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Amos
Burn Memorial Blitz in Hull
won by Jamie Heritage
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23/11/2025
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Yorkshire
Rapidplay
in Harrogate, 135 entrants
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16/11/2025
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NCCU Open
and Under-1850
next two county matches to be played
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15/11/2025
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NCCU
U-2050 and Under-1650
sections get started
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09/11/2025
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First
NCCU County Match of Season
Greater Manchester v Yorkshire in Under 1850
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08/11/2025
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Scarborough
Congress
with 6 sections, 445 entrants.
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26/10/2025
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European
Team Championship
with the White Rose team from the NCCU
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25/10/2025
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Leeds Congress
Open won by Carmel J Barwick
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12/10/2025
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UK Blitz
Championship Qualifier
Bolton
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28/09/2025
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UK Blitz
Championship Qualifier
Leeds
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28/09/2025
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Northumberland
Congress
Open won by Tim Wall
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28/09/2025
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York Congress
Open won by Toby Quaite
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21/09/2025
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UK
Blitz Championship Qualifier
Liverpool
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20/09/2025
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South
Yorkshire Rapidplay 2025
Open won by Tim Wall
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14/09/2025
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UK Blitz
Championship Qualifier
Sheffield
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13/09/2025
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Hull
4NCL Congress 2025
including the “Amos Burn Memorial Open”
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07/09/2025
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UK Blitz
Championship Qualifier
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
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06/09/2025
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Darnall
& Handsworth (Sheffield) Rapidplay
Open also won by Andrew Ledger
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30/08/2025
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Darnall
& Handsworth (Sheffield) Blitz
won by Andrew Ledger
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29/08/2025
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Leyland
Congress
Open won by Mike Surtees
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25/08/2025
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Northumbria
Masters 2025
Swiss Cross-Tables
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25/08/2025
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Northumbria
Masters 2025
Day 6 (final round)
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25/08/2025
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Northumbria
Masters 2025
Day 5
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24/08/2025
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Northumbria
Masters 2025
Day 4 (2 random games included from earlier rounds)
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23/08/2025
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Northumbria
Masters 2025
Day 3 (4 main events plus evening Blitz)
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22/08/2025
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Northumbria
Masters 2025
Day 2
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21/08/2025
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Northumbria
Masters 2025
Day 1
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20/08/2025
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Northumbria
Masters 2025
Introduction
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19/08/2025
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Manchester
Summer Congress
4-way tie on points for first place in Open
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17/08/2025
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3rd
Lancaster Congress
Open won by Harry Grieve of
London
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17/08/2025
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British Championships
in Liverpool
Final Scores of Selected
Individuals
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11/08/2025
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British Championships
in Liverpool
Champ’ship, Major Open, Over
50s & 65s final rounds
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10/08/2025
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British Championships
in Liverpool
Champ’ship and Major Open
rd.8; Over 50s & 65s rd.6
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09/08/2025
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British Championships in Liverpool
Champ’ship and Major Open
rd.7; Over 50s & 65s rd.5
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08/08/2025
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British Championships in Liverpool
Champ’ship and Major Open
rd.6; Over 50s & 65s rd.4
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07/08/2025
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British Championships in Liverpool
Champ’ship and Major Open
rd.5; Over 50s & 65s rd.3
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06/08/2025
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British Championships in Liverpool
Champ’ship and Major Open
rd.4; Over 50s & 65s rd.2
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05/08/2025
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British Championships in Liverpool
Champ’ship and Major Open
rd.3; Over 50s & 65s start
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04/08/2025
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British Championships in Liverpool
Championship and Major Open
round 2
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03/08/2025
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British Championships in Liverpool
Championship and Major Open
round 1
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02/08/2025
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British Championships in Liverpool
Introduction and results on
Day 1 and Day 2
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01/08/2025
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Eccles Community Chess Club
fund-raising event
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27/07/2025
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English Chess Championships
won by Michael Adams after play-off
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21/07/2025
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1st Glossop Chess Weekend
Yorkshire players tie for
first place in Open
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20/07/2025
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Ashton Rapidplay
11-year-old 2nd in top section
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20/07/2025
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UK Chess Challenge Northern
Gigafinals
held in Manchester
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13/07/2025
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English County Championship
Finals
One section won by a Northern
team.
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06/07/2025
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8th Crewe Congress
Open won by Jacob Boswell of Cheddleton & Leek
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29/06/2025
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Frodsham Rapidplay
Open won by Thomas Carroll
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22/06/2025
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South Lakes Congress 2026
Open won by John Potter of
Belper
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15/06/2025
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Scarborough Rapidplay
Open won by Zac Cansdale of
Durham University
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14/06/2025
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ECF County Championship
Semi-Finals
4 NCCU teams through to the
finals
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07/06/2025
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4th Sheffield Chess Centre
Rapidplay
Open won by Daniel Gormally
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24/05/2025
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Durham Congress (to be updated when results known)
including Cleveland County
Championships
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11/05/2025
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Rhyl Congress - (to be updated when results known)
also British Championships,
Rhyl, 1969 as a bonus
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11/05/2025
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ECF County Championship
Quarter-Finals
Gr Manchester’s and
Yorkshire’s matches in U-1850s
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10/05/2025
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English Seniors’ Championships:
Over-50 & Over-65
York’s Paul Townsend wins
Over-65 championship
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28/04/2025
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Bolton Easter Congress
Open won by Bogdan Lalić
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21/04/2025
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Darnall& Handsworth
Rapidplay 2025
Clear winner in each section
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22/03/2025
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Concluding NCCU County Matches
Final four matches
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16/03/2025
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1st Sale Bowen Rapidplay
Mick Connor wins top section
in new “stars barred” event
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01/03/2025
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Pennine Cup 2025
won by Merseyside A
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23/02/2025
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32nd Doncaster Congress
3-way tie for first place in
Open
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23/02/2025
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Blackpool Conference 2025
Mark Hebden and Siva Mahadevan
1st= in Open
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08/02/2025
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1st Cheadle FIDE Congress incorporating
NCCU Individual and Senior
Championships
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06/02/2025
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NCCU County Championships
Greater Manchester win Open
section
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02/02/2025
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1st Wigan Rapidplay
Open won by Gediminas
Sarakauskas
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02/02/2025
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37th Stockport Rapidlay
Adam Ashon and Nigel Davies
share 1st in Open
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26/01/2025
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4NCL Huddersfield Congress
159 participants
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19/01/2025
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Lancaster Rapidplay
Clear winner in 3 of the 4
sections
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18/01/2025
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Bradford Congress
Open 1st shared, Paul
Butterworth & Shriaansh Ganti
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12/01/2025
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Hull & East Riding
Rapidplay
Open won by Kamila Hryshchenko
of Hull
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05/01/2025
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Bolton Rapidplay
Open won by Gediminas
Sarakauskas (2 games given)
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01/12/2024
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Start of 2024-25 NCCU County
Championships
Lancashire and Greater
Manchester starts things off
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03/11/2024
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Scarborough Congress
Open won by Koby Kalvannan
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27/10/2024
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Sheffield Congress
5-way tie for 1st place in top
section
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06/10/2024
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60th Northumberland Congress
Open won by Daniel Gormally
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29/09/2024
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Hull 4NCL Congress 2024
Open won by Marcus Harvey; 7
games
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08/09/2024
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8th Darnall & Handsworth
FIDE-Rated Rapidplay
Open won by Hull’s Maxim
Larchikov
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31/08/2024
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Leyland Congress
Open won by Keith Arkell; 3
games to play through
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26/08/2024
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Northumbria Masters
Results with 15 games to play
through
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26/08/2024
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Manchester Summer Congress
Yang-Fan Zhou & Roger G
Williamson share 1st place
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18/08/2024
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Lancaster Congress 2024
109 entrants across four
sections
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11/08/2024
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Ashton Rapidpay 2024
65 participants across three
sections
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14/07/2024
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Yorkshire Blitz Championship
won by Alan Peart of Harrogate
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13/07/2024
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South Shields FIDE-Rated Blitz
won by Charlie Storey
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07/07/2024
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EJCOA NYC Finals
in Nottingham including a
number of Northern players
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07/07/2024
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UK Chess Challenge
Northern Gigafinal
with 449 entrants
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07/07/2024
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ECF County Finals Remaining
Matches
2 titles for Manchester and 1
for Yorkshire
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06/07/2024
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7th Crewe Congress
198 participants
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30/06/2024
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3rd Sheffield Chess Centre
Rapidplay
Clear winner in both sections
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30/06/2024
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English County Finals
Northumberland loses to Surrey
in Open on 29/06/2024
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29/06/2024
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Ilkley Congress 2024
85 participants
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23/06/2024
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UK Chess Challenge York
Megafinal
83 participants at Bootham
School
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09/06/2024
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ECF County Championship
Semi-Finals
Results
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08/06/2024
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North East EJCOA NYC Zonal
Last of four 2024 Zonals in
NCCU territory
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02/06/2024
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Frodsham Rapidplay 2024
won by Mike Surtees
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26/05/2024
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Warrington Rapidplay 2024
114 participants
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25/05/2024
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Northumbria UKCC 2014
Megafinal
80 participants
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18/05/2024
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ECF Quarterfinals, Second
Weekend
Only 1 NCCU team in action and
winning
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18/05/2024
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Durham Congress
Open won by Hull s Maxim
Larchikov
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12/05/2024
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ECF Quarterfinals, First Weekend
mixed fortunes: 2 NCCU wins
and 2 NCCU losses
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12/05/2024
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Scarborough Rapidplay
Open won by Paul Hutchinson
with 5 out of 5
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11/05/2024
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Teesside UKCC 2024 Megafinal
First of four Megafinals in
NCCU territory
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05/05/2024
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ECF Under-1850 Prelinary
Round
Yorkshire beats Staffordshire
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27/04/2024
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Sheffield EJCOA NYC Zonal
at Sheffield Chess Centre
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20/04/2024
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Sheffield International
(Norm-Qualifier)
One IM norm earned
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14/04/2024
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York EJCOA NYC Zonal
at Fishergate Primary School,
York
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07/04/2024
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Bolton Rapidplay
3-section, 6-round event
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31/03/2024
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Gr. Manchester EJCOA NYC Zonal
at Ashton-under-Lyne
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24/03/2024
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Final NCCU County Matches
for 2023-24
Final four matches
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24/03/2024
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7th Darnall &
Handsworth Rapidplay
Outright winner of 1st place
in each section
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23/03/2024
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Yorkshire v Merseyside,
Under-1850
won by Yorkshire
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17/03/2024
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Doncaster Congress 2024
193 participants, as in 2023
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25/02/2024
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Leyland Rapidplay
Top section won by Mike
Surtees
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25/02/2024
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3rd Lancaster Rapidpay
Gediminas Sarakauskas wins
Open
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18/02/2024
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Greater Manchester v
Northumberland
Open & Under-165 matches
won by Gr. Manchester.
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17/02/2024
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47th Blackpool Conference
Open won by Brandon Clarke on
5 out of 5
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11/02/2024
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Greater Manchester v
Cleveland, Under-2050
7 -4 win for Greater
Manchester
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04/02/2024
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36th Stockport Rapidplay
Report to be expended in due
course
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28/01/2024
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Yorkshire v Cumbria,
Under-1850
Comfortable win for Yorkshire
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28/01/2024
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4NCL Harrogate Congress
180 participants at the Old
Swan Hotel
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21/01/2024
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Cumbria v Greater Manchester,
Under-1850
Comfortable win for GM: 4-8
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20/01/2024
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Pennine Cup 2023-24
16-team event won by Yorkshire
A with Gr. M/c A 2nd
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14/01/2024
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Hull & East Riding Rapid
Play 2024
108 participants; 3-way tie in
Open
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07/01/2024
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Sheffield Chess Centre
One-Day Rapidplay
72 participants; Open won by
Andrew Ledger
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16/12/2023
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Ribble Weekend Congress
December 2023
Top section won by Mike
Surtees
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10/12/2023
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Bolton Rapidplay December 2023
3-way tie for 1st place in
Open
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03/12/2023
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Yorkshire Open
Rapidplay
Open 1st-2nd: Gawain Jones
& Jacob Connor Boswell
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26/11/2023
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NCCU County Championships
Second match weekend
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25/11/2023
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NCCU County Championships
First match day produces three
very close matches
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12/11/2023
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Scarborough Congress 2023
335 participants
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29/10/2023
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Scarborough Junior
Rapidplay 2023
incorporating qualifier to
EPSCA U-11 team trial
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28/10/2023
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ECF National Club
Championships
All sections won by teams from
the North!
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22/10/2023
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Sheffield Congress 2023
A successful revival of a
formerly-popular event
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08/10/2023
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Northumberland Congress
4-way tie for 1st place in
Open; 121 participants
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01/10/2023
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Sheffield Chess Centre Open
Junior Congress
Open won by Maksym Kryshtafor
of York
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24/09/2023
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54th Rhyl
Congress
NCCU s most westerly chess congress
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24/09/2023
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Hull
4NCL Congress
with 6 games to play through
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10/09/2023
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6th
Darnall & Handsworth (Sheffield) Rapidplay
Entries down on March event
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02/09/2023
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Leyland
Congress
Open won by Rishi Vijayakumar from Scotland
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28/08/2023
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Northumbria
Masters
(now with norm-qualifier results added)
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28/08/2028
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Manchester
Summer Congress
and Junior Championship
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20/08/2023
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Lancaster
Congress
Four sections; 96 entrants
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06/08/2023
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Ashton
Rapidplay 2023
Three-section Stars Barred event
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09/07/2023
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Northern
Gigafinal , Manchester
Qualifier for ultimate UK Chess Challenge Final
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02/07/2023
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ECF County
Championship Finals
Yorkshire wins U-1650; Greater Manchester wins U-1450
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01/07/2023
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3rd
Ribble Rapidplay
Mike Surtees and Ali Janooby 1st-2nd= in top section
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18/06/2023
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2nd Ilkley
Chess Festival Open 1st place
shared by
Thomas Wills (Sheffield) &
Darwin Ursal (Halifax)
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18/06/2023
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ECF County
Championship Semi-Finals
Three Northern County teams through to the Finals
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11/06/2023
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South
Lakes Congress 2023
Pete Large of Epsom wins Open
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04/06/2023
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Warrington
Rapidplay
Gediminas Sarakauskas & Jonathan Arnott 1st= in Open
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27/05/2023
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ECF
County Championship Quarter-Finals (leg 2)
Two of three Northern teams win their matches
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20/05/2023
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Durham
Congress 2023
5-way tie for 1st place in Open
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14/05/2023
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ECF
County Championship Quarter-Finals (leg 1)
All three Northern teams competing win their matches
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13/05/2023
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ECF
Finance Council Meeting
webmaster s personal report
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22/04/2023
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Bolton
Congress
74 participants; Mike Surtees wins Open
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09/04/2023
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NCCU
County Matches
Last Two of Season
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25/03/2023
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Darnall
& Handsworth Rapidplay
107 participants in Sheffield event
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25/03/2023
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Four
More County Matches Played
leaving just two more to be played
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05/03/2023
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Leyland
Rapidplay
Open won by Mike Surtees
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26/02/2023
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Doncaster
Congress
incorporating NCCU Individual Championships
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26/02/2023
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Open
Section County Match
Important win by Greater Manchester over Yorkshire
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19/02/2023
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Blackpool
Chess Conference 2023
345 participants
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12/02/2023
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One
County Match
Greater M/c v Cumbria, U-1850
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11/02/2023
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One
County Match
Cumbria v Yorkshire in U-1850
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29/01/2023
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Two
County Matches
1 in Open, 1 in U-2050
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28/01/2023
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4NCL
Harrogate Congress
27% increase in entries
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22/01/2023
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2nd
Lancaster Rapidplay
54 entries, at new venue
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21/01/2023
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Hull
Rapidplay
101 participants
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16/01/2023
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Bolton
Rapidplay
110 participants
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04/12/2022
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2nd
County Match Weekend
Two Under 1850 matches
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03/12/2022
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NCCU
County Matches
Start of new season
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26/11/2022
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47th
Scarborough Congress
337 participants
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30/10/2022
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UK Chess
Challenge
Finals at Blenheim Palace
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16/10/2022
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Hull Congress
152 participants
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16/10/2022
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Crewe Congress
116 participants
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16/10/2022
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Northumberland
Congress
Clear winner in each section
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02/10/2022
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Ilkley
Chess Festival
Run by the Chess Centre (Ilkley)
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18/09/2022
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Durham
Congress
incorporating NCCU Individual Championships
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08/04/2022
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Doncaster
Congress
returns after Covid
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27/02/2022
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