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The ECF has announced that the 2024 British
Championships are once again to be held in Hull, from Thursday 25th July to
Sunday 4th August. Hull lasted hosted the full British Championships
in 2018, though it also hosted parts of the slim-line first post-Covid
over-the-board championships in 2021.
Back in 2018, elements including the Championship proper
were held in Hull City Hall, Queen Victoria Square, Carr Lane, Hull, HU1
3RQ, and as a visitor then the writer thought it rather cramped, though
that was in comparison with championships experienced decades earlier when
numbers of participants were perhaps smaller. Some competitions were
held at the Doubletree and the Royal Hotel (the latter now being full up
with asylum seekers).
Perhaps to create more elbowroom, the 2024 championships
are to be split across two sites, Hull City Hall as above and the
“DoubleTree by Hilton” (the trendy way of naming hotels these days, it
seems), 24 Ferensway, Hull, HU2 8NH. Both
sites are about 500 metres from the railway station.
Details of the event are to be found at https://www.britishchesschampionships.co.uk/.
The British Championships are held in the Northern
Counties on average roughly once in 4 years, which seems a fair enough “share”. Indeed, in the last 24 years
(2000 to 2024 – excluding 2020) 9 venues have been in the NCCU (assuming
Llandudno to be in Cheshire & N. Wales), which seems more than a fair
share, perhaps influenced in part by considerations like cost.
. . . also
. . .
Glorney Cup, 2024
23rd to 25th July
The 2024 Glorney Cup has been
scheduled by the ECF, whose turn it is to host this junior international
team event, at the Canham Turner Building of Hull University from 23rd to
25th July, immediately before the British Championship. This approach
has been adopted before, enabling competitors in the Glorney
Cup etc to stay on and play in the British Championships.
The Glorney Cup is an
international junior team competition currently aimed at the four “home
nations”, England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, though it has in the past,
from time to time, included teams such as Belgium, France and the
Netherlands. This year, teams expected to participate are England
(A), England B, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and an “International” team the
nature of whose composition is not specified.
When the event for the Glorney
Cup was initiated in 1949, it was for teams of under-18s (probably all
boys). In 1968 a Faber Cup for under-18 girls was first held
alongside the Glorney Cup event. In 2007
(in Dublin) the Robinson Cup and Stoke Cup competitions for under-14s and
under-12s respectively were introduced. The events seemingly being
conducted under the umbrella term of Glorney Cup
2024 are thus:
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Trophy
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Glorney Cup
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Robinson Cup
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Stoke Cup
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Faber* Cup
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Players
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U-18 Boys
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Under-14s
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Under-12s
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U-18 Girls
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Boards
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5
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6
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6
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3
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* for a while renamed Gilbert-Faber Cup before it reverted
to just Faber in unfortunate circumstances
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British Championship Venues Since 2000
(N = in NCCU
territory).
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2024
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Hull
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N
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2023
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Leicester
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2022
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Torquay
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2021
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Hull (in part)
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N
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2020
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(on line)
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2019
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Torquay
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2018
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Hull
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N
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2017
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Llandudno
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N
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2016
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Bournemouth
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2015
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Warwick
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2014
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Aberystwyth
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2013
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Torquay
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2012
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North Shields
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N
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2011
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Sheffield
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N
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2010
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Canterbury
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2009
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Torquay
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2008
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Liverpool
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N
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2007
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Great Yarmouth
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2006
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Swansea
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2005
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IsIe of Man
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2004
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Scarborough
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N
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2003
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Edinburgh
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2002
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Torquay
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2001
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Scarborough
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N
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2000
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Street, Somerset
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1999
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Scarborough
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N
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1998
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Torquay
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1997
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Hove
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1996
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Nottingham
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1995
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Swansea
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1994
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Norwich
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1993
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Dundee
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1992
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Plymouth
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1991
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Eastbourne
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1990
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Eastbourne
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1989
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Plymouth
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1988
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Blackpool
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N
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