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Northern Counties Chess Union

Established 1899

A constituent unit of the English Chess Federation

 

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07/06/2025

ECF County Championship Semi-Finals

 

Eight NCCU teams were playing in the ECF County Championship Semi-Finals on Saturday 7th June 2025, resulting in 4 wins and 4 losses for the NCCU.  This means 4 teams proceed to the finals on 5th July:

 

Open Final

Greater Manchester

v

Surrey

U‑2050 Final

Yorkshire

v

Greater Manchester

U-1850 Final

Yorkshire

v

Middlesex

 

Semi-final match result details were as follows.  For rating-limited sections, ratings by a player’s name are first the qualifying ECF rating (1st September) and the second (in parentheses) the current ECF rating (June 1st).  In the Open, FIDE ratings are similarly used.

 

Open

Greater Manchester

9˝-6˝

Middlesex

 

2276 (2325)

Adam G Ashton

˝-˝

Stanley Badacsonyi

2300 (2454)

2224 (2176)

Alexander Longson

˝-˝

Richard A Bates

2293 (2321)

2196 (2052)

Dale R James

1-0

Frankie Badacsonyi

2189 (2272)

2082 (2127)

Ali Reza Jaunooby

˝-˝

Jeff A Goldberg

2154 (2086)

2071 (2175)

Tim Elgar

1-0

Bodhana Sivanandan

2109 (2197)

2057 (2138)

Aidan M Rawlinson

1-0

Ashley Stewart

2093 (2176)

2039 (2110)

Alan J Walton

˝-˝

Dimitar Mogilarov

2090 (2135)

0000 (2038)

Andrew Lewis

˝-˝

Gary Senior

2023 (2063)

2011 (2134)

Marek Mazek

1-0

Steven F Coles

2020 (2074)

2001 (2112)

Tetsuaki Sanada

˝-˝

Carsten Pedersen

2009 (2070)

1976 (2081)

Yao Yao Zhu

0-1

Andrew Gilfillan

2006 (2112)

1966 (1998)

Kyle Pelling

1-0

Mark Davey

1997 (2073)

1941 (2045)

Sarah N Longson

0-1

Gautam R Jain

1979 (2143)

1937 (2062)

Chun Hei Wong

1-0

Mateusz Dydak

1941 (1992)

1884 (1918)

Dave Toole

˝-˝

Nigel D Fleming

1878 (2046)

1860 (1829)

David F Newell

0-1

Laith Hayali

0000 (1820)

1908

Birstall Village Hall, Birstall Road, Birstall, Leicester LE4 4DH

1943

Open

Surrey

10-6

Yorkshire

 

2286 (2400)

David Henry Maycock

˝-˝

Andrew J Ledger

2334 (2407)

2332 (2378)

Peter G Large

0-1

Ilya Lemeshev

2282 (2281)

2259 (2340)

Graeme N Buckley

1-0

Thomas Carroll

2131 (2273)

2152 (2304)

Peter D Lalic

1-0

M Paul Townsend

2168 (2229)

2191 (2296)

Gwilym T Price

˝-˝

Oliver Gill

2109 (2210)

2214 (2233)

Susan K Lalic

0-1

Alan Peart

2036 (2202)

2219 (2231)

Nigel E Povah

0-1

Jonathan P Nelson

2106 (2168)

2194 (2229)

Chris W Baker

˝-˝

Joe Varley

2018 (2158)

2100 (2181)

Danbe Luk

1-0

Jim Burnett

2080 (2139)

2054 (2159)

Audrey Kueh

1-0

Peter Shaw

2025 (2128)

2112 (2142)

Mark Josse

˝-˝

Peter M Gayson

2053 (2113)

2355 (2136)

John Hawksworth

˝-˝

Peter JE Ackley

1976 (2105)

1980 (2127)

Daniel B Rosen

˝-˝

SF Wild

0000 (2058)

2143 (2121)

Marcus E Osborne

1-0

Marek Gajdosz

1857 (2051)

2094 (2118)

Clive A Frostick

1-0

Steve R Hodge

1980 (2032)

2031 (2057)

Robert C Noyce

1-0

Christopher Bak

1978 (2022)

2170

Syston Community Centre, 7 School St, Syston LE7 1HN

1946

U-2050

Middlesex

3-13

Yorkshire

 

2022 (2029)

Anthony R Fulton

0-1

Toby Quaite

1892 (2193)

2023 (2023)

Colin Mackenzie

0-1

Shriaansh Ganti

1922 (2130)

1931 (1958)

Aryaman Ganguly

0-1

Daniel J Staples

2022 (2075)

2026 (1953)

D Ian Calvert

˝-˝

Douglas Vleeshhouwer

1967 (2041)

1913 (1911)

Jonathan Rubeck

0-1

Alex Burke

1936 (2027)

1870 (1906)

Xavier Cowan

0-1

Patrick Joseph

1908 (2010)

1912 (1905)

D Ajoy Solomon

0-1

Mark I Collinson

1987 (1982)

1922 (1859)

Greg J Breed

0-1

Leo A Keely

1929 (1959)

1885 (1852)

Andrew McGuinness

0-1

Pete Micklethwaite

2009 (1955)

1852 (1846)

Peter F Anderson

˝-˝

Jonathan Round

1957 (1951)

1684 (1688)

JJ Padam

1-0(def)

Arron Barker

1954 (1948)

1725 (1681)

Leon HJ Fincham

1-0

Mike Bramson

1987 (1938)

1595 (1618)

Ronan Kelly

0-1

John M Morgan

1942 (1906)

1479 (1551)

Rohan Theo Barbier‑Ramaiah

0-1

Thomas L Hackett

1857 (1886)

1468 (1518)

Riya Aude Barbier-Ramaiah

0-1

Dale H Cullum

1896 (1851)

1379 (1471)

Gul Kapur

0-1

Paul Pritchard

1802 (1826)

1793

Birstall Village Hall, Birstall Road, Birstall, Leicester LE4 4DH

1936

U-2050

Greater Manchester

8˝-7˝

Surrey

 

2030 (2039)

Joshua Pink

0-1

Zac Welling

1992 (2067)

2019 (2029)

Mahin Rughani

˝-˝

John P Foley

1995 (2034)

1990 (1979)

Tim Hilton

0-1

B Peter A Andrews

2017 (2024)

2044 (1962)

Alannah Ashton

0-1

Peter N Lee

1993 (2015)

1968 (1950)

Peter J Mulleady

˝-˝

Marcus D Baker

1887 (2009)

1996 (1950)

Damian M McCarthy

1-0

Elliott CM Macneil

1936 (1988)

1952 (1942)

Andrew J Stoker

˝-˝

Philip M Stimpson

1927 (1965)

1868 (1908)

David Burgess

1-0

Timothy J Davis

1984 (1944)

1842 (1897)

Alexander Burke

1-0

Anthony S Collins

1967 (1894)

1895 (1896)

Anubhab Gupta

1-0

Martin G Smith

1905 (1879)

1897 (1895)

Adam Tyton

˝-˝

Michael R Smart

1852 (1877)

1829 (1867)

Martin Pope

˝-˝

Graham P Alcock

1830 (1838)

1809 (1856)

Christopher Hodgson

˝-˝

James Fox

1816 (1820)

1843 (1813)

Jon I Lonsdale

˝-˝

Andrew Boughen

1836 (1815)

1739 (1781)

Nathan Harvey-Jones

1-0

John Polanyk

1764 (1803)

1704 (1705)

Marcus Fung

0-1

Olufemi George

1855 (1801)

1902

Syston Community Centre, 7 School St, Syston LE7 1HN

1910

U-1850

Yorkshire

9-7

Suffolk

 

1796 (1846)

David A Patrick

1-0

James Pack

1840 (1899)

1798 (1828)

Daniel Meredith

˝-˝

Nathan Barnes

1840 (1854)

1823 (1825)

Steve Westmoreland

˝-˝

Andrew J Donnelly

1828 (1823)

1795 (1825)

Keith Thompson

˝-˝

James Irwin

1817 (1820)

1797 (1809)

Rupert W Jones

1-0

Tom Gordon

1772 (1820)

1842 (1809)

Peter F Mason

0-1

Steve Lovell

1788 (1790)

1834 (1800)

James Annan

1-0

Peter Newton

1764 (1787)

1777 (1798)

Robert A Dean

˝-˝

Simon Riley

1702 (1778)

1813 (1795)

David W Stephenson

0-1

Thomas Sheat

1795 (1770)

1777 (1792)

Robin F Browne

˝-˝

Ed Kirkham

1768 (1770)

1725 (1792)

Rico-Bradley Ellis

0-1

Laurie Pott

1849 (1769)

1811 (1789)

Granville Boot

1-0

Robert W Stephens

1734 (1751)

1767 (1786)

Zak Tomlinson

˝-˝

Judith Heffer

1732 (1720)

1777 (1773)

Peter Catt

˝-˝

Sergejs Starodubcevs

1627 (1701)

1754 (1773)

David Robinson

˝-˝

Daniel Pugh

1759 (1690)

1734 (1740)

Geoffrey D Brown

1-0

Mark Heffer

1678 (1590)

1789

Peterborough Bridge Club, York Road, Peterborough PE1 3BP

1769

U-1650

Greater Manchester

4˝-11˝

Kent

 

1649 (1835)

Leo Cheung

0-1

Federico Mandelli

1643 (1677)

1644 (1792)

Ashton Morrissey

0-1

Alan J Sherriff

1633 (1642)

1599 (1715)

Sean M Lightbown

1-0

Nick Allen

1628 (1627)

1578 (1647)

Aram Marsh

0-1

David Collins

1637 (1622)

1623 (1643)

Joseph Day

0-1

Jagdev Panesar

1550 (1617)

1634 (1636)

Rowan Eccleston

˝-˝

David J Gilbert

1636 (1603)

1562 (1628)

J Coupe

˝-˝

John R McKenna

1624 (1602)

1480 (1625)

Jake Howard

˝-˝

Lee Brockwell

1607 (1595)

1490 (1624)

Edward Chu

0-1

James F McKenna

1569 (1589)

1635 (1623)

Matthew Heritage

0-1

Mike Hawkes

1552 (1586)

1568 (1621)

Ian D Lamb

0-1

Joe Eagle

1516 (1584)

1624 (1617)

Paul Leonard

0-1

Chris D Brown

1598 (1566)

1614 (1616)

Steven M Flaherty

˝-˝

Minula Marasinghe

1542 (1562)

1504 (1595)

David Kilmartin

˝-˝

Andrew L Gillard

1563 (1537)

1573 (1574)

Mohammed Rohman

1-0

Lewis Schwarz

1532 (1532)

1564 (1563)

Anthony Jinks

0-1

Yvo Pokern

1540 (1487)

1584

University of Warwick, Coventry Campus

1586

U-1650

Surrey

8˝-7˝

Yorkshire

 

1310 (1716)

Charlie Pearson

˝-˝

William Peacock

1574 (1826)

1635 (1699)

Alexey Markov

˝-˝

Adamjeet Singh

1549 (1724)

1623 (1637)

Alan P Romeril

0-1

Adam Bleakley

1579 (1701)

1618 (1619)

Robert W Fairhall

1-0

Colin Weller

1641 (1679)

1613 (1615)

Oleksiy Podolyan

0-1

Robert Dennington

1640 (1642)

1622 (1603)

Peter J Horlock

˝-˝

Stuart Sharp

1549 (1626)

1593 (1592)

George Milligan

1-0

Vidhyuth Kavin Sudagar

1396 (1594)

1643 (1590)

David Flewellen

˝-˝

Ian D Strickland

1613 (1591)

1626 (1588)

Peter Kasprowicz

1-0

Dylan Noonan

1478 (1588)

1604 (1582)

Ken R Chamberlain

˝-˝

Steve Crow

1552 (1581)

1537 (1574)

Alistair Mackenzie

0-1

Andrew Batley

1548 (1553)

1501 (1555)

Phillip Goodings

˝-˝

Robert Oldfield

1555 (1549)

1527 (1534)

John Ryan

˝-˝

Amandeep Singh

1453 (1520)

1470 (1521)

Christopher Perks

1-0

John G Taylor

1502 (1504)

1560 (1498)

Michael J Gunn

1-0

Stewart Robertson

1428 (1501)

1427 (1495)

Tiara Khanna

0-1

Jatinder Singh

1318 (1384)

1557

Syston Community Centre, 7 School St, Syston LE7 1HN

1524

U-1450

Greater Manchester

3-9

Kent

 

1307 (1626)

Ved Sudeep Boganadham

˝-˝

Niraj Alok

1423 (1555)

1406 (1531)

John Donegan

0-1

Max Dinley

1406 (1523)

1418 (1527)

Claire Kerton

0-1

Ishaan Sai Kuchibhatla

1308 (1502)

1414 (1473)

Philip Clare

˝-˝

Michael Sargent

1385 (1497)

1390 (1462)

Jeff Wilson

˝-˝

Jayden Xia

1327 (1469)

1417 (1447)

Lachlan Harding Cornish

1-0

Robert Twigg

1433 (1454)

1440 (1415)

Yin Chu

0-1

Henry Charlesworth

1426 (1441)

1396 (1414)

Benjamin Hargreaves

0-1

Ian F Mills

1436 (1439)

1334 (1410)

Charlie Locke

0-1

Conner Maguire

1424 (1434)

1245 (1395)

David Otaryan

˝-˝

Luciano DM Di Mattia

1415 (1399)

1289 (1388)

Noah Hicks

0-1

Christian Charalambous

1355 (1390)

1383 (1344)

David Sherman

0-1

Akshar Alok

1145 (1329)

1370

University of Warwick, Coventry Campus

1374