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Northern Counties Chess Union

Established 1899

A constituent unit of the English Chess Federation

 

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02/02/2025

Open County-Match Jamboree

 

This was originally to be run as a 4-team single round Jamboree, with each team having 4 opponents from each of the other 3 teams, making 12 in total (hence board pairings like A1 v B1, C1 v D1, B2 v C2, D2 v A2, A3 v C3, B3 v D3, C4 v A4, D4 v B4, etc as per the Hutton pairing system), but Merseyside withdrew a few days before the event leaving just Greater Manchester, Northumberland and Yorkshire competing, requiring the 3-team Hutton pairing table instead.  The venue was Bradford.

 

Greater Manchester came out on top, with Yorkshire second and Northumberland third.  Northumberland had already declared they did not wish to progress to the ECF County Championships, so Greater Manchester becomes 1st NCCU nominee for the ECF Open Championship with Yorkshire being 2nd nominee.  At the ECF stage, a Union’s first nominee can get a slightly easier route, initially playing another Union’s 2nd nominee (or getting a bye) while the 2nd nominee is likely to get paired against another Union’s 1st nominee.

 

The board-by-board results as represented on LMS were as below.

 

 

Game points

Greater Manchester

Yorkshire

6

Northumberland

 

Jamboree played

02/02/2025

   

(played as 1-round Jamboree)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Greater Manchester

4½-1½

Northumberland

   

Northumberland

3-3

Yorkshire

W

Paul Macklin

½-½

Tim P Wall

   

W

Husain Nakara

0-1

Andrew J Ledger

B

Aidan M Rawlinson

0-1

Andrew Burnett

   

B

Thomas Eggleston

1-0

Jonathan W Arnott

W

Alexander Longson

1-0

Graeme Oswald

   

W

Zheming Zhang

½-½

Kamila Hryshchenko

B

Mitchell R Burke

1-0

Nathan Ekanem

   

B

David Armbruster

1-0

Joe Varley

W

Chun Hei Wong

1-0

Raj K Mohindra

   

W

John Aanuoluwapo Awesome

0-1

Peter M Gayson

B

Joel McBeath

1-0

Daniel Sewart

   

B

Krithik Shai MP

½-½

Peter JE Ackley

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yorkshire

3-3

Greater Manchester

   

W

Ilya Lemeshev

0-1

Adam G Ashton

   

B

Thomas Carroll

1-0

Robert McLean

   

W

Jonathan P Nelson

½-½

Alan J Walton

   

B

Phil R Watson

0-1

Tetsuaki Sanada

   

W

Jim Burnett

1-0

Alannah Ashton

   

B

Peter Shaw

½-½

Kyle Pelling