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Yorkshire Chess Association

info should now be found

on the new website

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County Match Schedule 2023-24

 

 Yorkshire ECF Ratings October 2024

 

Chess in Schools & Communities

Next Congresses &c:

Next Junior Events:

2nd Sheffield Chess Inter’

04‑06/10/2024

Scarbor’gh Congress

25-27/10/24

ECF

AGM

26/10/2024

2nd Yorkshire Rapidplay

24/11/2024

Doncaster Congress

21-23/02/25

D’ & H’ 9th Rapidplay
22/03/2025

D’ & H’ 10th Rapidplay
30-31/08/2025

YJCA Girls’ Starter T’ment

21/09/2024

UKCC Challengers
21-22/09/24

Scarbor’gh Jun. Rapid

26/10/2024

YJCA 24-25

GP1

09/11/2024

 

Please e-mail event reports and notices to sjmann@gmx.co.uk.

 

YCA League

 

2023-24 Results

2024‑25 Fixtures

Division 1

Division 2

Division 3a

Division 4

 

U18 Div.1

U18 Div.2

Fixture List

 

Event Results/Reports

(event date)

FIDE Olympiad 2024 Round 11

Results and final placings; games to follow

22/09/2024

FIDE Olympiad 2024 Round 10

Results in penultimate round and 1 game

21/09/2024

FIDE Olympiad 2024 Round 9

Results and 1 game

20/09/2024

FIDE Olympiad 2024 Round 8

Results and 2 games

19/04/2024

FIDE Olympiad 2024 Round 7

Results and 3 games

18/04/2024

FIDE Olympiad 2024 Round 6

Results and 3 games

17/04/2024

FIDE Olympiad 2024 Rounds 6 to 9

Reporting will be on hold for a while (holiday)

16/09/2024

FIDE Olympiad 2024 Round 5

Results and 4 games

15/09/2024

FIDE Olympiad 2024 Round 4

Results and 3 games

14/09/2024

FIDE Olympiad 2024 Round 3

Results and 3 games

13/09/2024

FIDE Olympiad 2024 Round 2

Results and 3 games

12/09/2024

FIDE Olympiad 2024 Round 1

3 games included

11/09/2024

FIDE Olympiad 2024

starts shortly

09/09/2024

Hull 4NCL Congress 2024

Open won by Marcus Harvey; 7 games

08/09/2024

Another Leeds CC Rapidplay

Participant numbers up by 50%

06/09/2024

Darnall & Handsworth Rapidplay

Open won by Hull’s Maxim Larchikov

31/08/2024

Leeds CC Rapidplay

the controller’s warm-up for the Olympiad!

28/08/2024

British Championships 2024, Day 11

Gawain Jones wins Br. Championship; 16 games

04/08/2024

British Championships 2024, Day 10

13 games to play through

03/08/2024

British Championships 2024, Day 9

6 games to play through

02/08/2024

British Championships 2024, Day 8

8 games to play through

01/08/2024

British Championships 2024, Day 7

11 games to play through

31/07/2024

British Championships 2024, Day 6

13 games to play through

30/07/2024

British Championships 2024, Day 5

6 games to play through

29/07/2024

British Championships 2024, Day 4

6 games to play through

28/07/2024

British Championships 2024, Days 2 & 3

Start of the main events

27/07/2024

British Championships 2024, Day 1

Yorkshire juniors perform well in Junior Blitzes

25/07/2024

Glorney Cup and Related Junior Team Events

7 Yorkshire players’ fortunes

24/07/2024

1st Yorkshire Blitz Congress

Single section won by Alan Peart of Harrogate

13/07/2024

World Senior Team Championships

65+ England 1 finishes 1st

11/07/2024

ECF County Finals

Yorkshire wins Under 1650 title.

06/07/2024

3rd Sheffield Chess Centre Raidplay

Clear winner in both sections

30/06/2024

English Championships

won by Gawain Jones (3 games)

23/06/2024

Ilkley Congress 2024

James Hall and Peter Shaw share 1st/2nd in Open

23/06/2024

Latest Correspondence Chess Results

in inter-county and other events (with one game)

12/06/2024

A Big Thank You

From Under-1850 captain to his players

10/06/2024

UK Chess Challenge York Megafinal

83 participants at Bootham School

09/06/2024

ECF County Championship 2024 Semi-Finals

Yorkshire wins one match but loses two

08/06/2024

English Seniors Championships

with 37 of the games

28/05/2024

Relegation Play-Off

Determining 9th place in Woodhouse Cup

11/05/2024

1st Scarborough Rapidplay

Open won by Paul Hutchinson of Scarborough

11/05/2024

ECF County Championship ¼ Finals

Yorkshire v Hampshire in Under-1850 section

11/05/2024

ECF County Championship ¼-Finals

Yorkshire v Kent in Under-1450 section

11/05/2024

Postscript to 4NCL 2023-24

Comments by Rupert Jones

10/05/2024

4NCL 2023-24, Rounds 9, 10 & 11

Final three rounds

06/05/2024

ECF U-1850: Yorkshire 12½-3½ Staffordshire

Yorks. through to meet Hampshire in ¼-finals

27/04/2024

EJCOA NYC Zonal, Sheffield

one of 4 in the North this year.

20/04/2024

Sheffield International

One IM norm earned

14/04/2024

EJCOA NYC Zonal, York

one of 4 in the North this year.

07/04/2024

Final NCCU County Matches

Yorkshire involved in three of them

24/03/2024

7th Darnall & Handsworth Rapidplay

Outright 1st place in each section

23/03/2024

NCCU Under 1850 Championship

Yorkshire beats Merseyside

17/03/2024

4NCL 2023-24, Rounds 7 & 8, 2nd Leg

Round 7 & 8 results with 32 games

17/03/2024

4NCL 2023-24, Rounds 7 & 8, 1st Leg

CWR 3 lose 2-4 in rd 7, win 4-2 in rd 8; 4 games

10/03/2024

Yorkshire Junior CA 2023-24 Event 3

at Holmfirth; also final Grand Prix placings

09/03/2024

British Rapidplay 2024

How Yorkshire players fared and 4 games

03/03/2024

Doncaster Congress 2024

193 participants, as last year

25/02/2024

Yorkshire U18s Team Championship

Hull & ER top of Div.1, Sheffield B top of Div.2

25/02/2024

Hull & ER A v Calderdale A in Woodhouse Cup

Photographs and the game from board 2

17/02/2024

4NCL 2023-24 Round 5  2 won matches, 2 drawn and 4 lost by Yorkshire-based teams

11/02/2024

Yorkshire Junior CA 2023-24 Event 2

at Hymers College, Hull

03/02/2024

Hull & East Riding Matches

Photographs taken by David Mills

27/01/2024

Yorkshire v Cumbria in NCCU Under-1850

comfortably won by Yorkshire

28/01/2024

4NCL Harrogate Congress  Yorkshire players among those sharing section 1st prizes

21/01/2024

NCCU Pennine Cup 2023-24 (Under-18 team rapidplay) Won by Yorkshire A ahead of 15 others

14/01/2024

4NCL 2023-24 Rounds 3 & 4, Divisions 1, 2 and 3K

Limited success for Yorkshire-based teams

14/01/2024

Calderdale v Kirklees

Match played outdoors in the Piece Hall, Halfiax

06/01/2024

Hull & East Riding Rapid Play 2024

108 participants

07/01/2024

4NCL 2023-24 Rounds 3 & 4, Divisions 4 and 3B

Chessable White Rose 3 in action; 4 games

07/01/2024

49th Inter-County Blitz Junior Team “Battle”

with 2 games by YJCA players

01/01/2024

Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year from Meltham

by Steve Westmoreland

19/12/2023

Conclusion of Keddie Cup

Won by all-junior team ‘The Smothered Mates’

13/12/2023

Yorkshire Open Rapidplay  1st-2nd= in Open: Gawain Jones and Jacob Connor Boswell

26/11/2023

Yorkshire v Greater Manchester

In NCCU Open and Under 1850 sections

25/11/2023

4NCL 2023-24 Rounds 1 & 2, Divisions 4 and 3B

Rounds 1 & 2 completed

19/11/2023

4NCL 2023-24 Rounds 1 & 2, Divisions 1, 2 and 3K

New season kicks off

12/11/2023

Yorkshire Junior CA 2023-24 Event 1

at Bradford Grammar

11/11/2023

Scarborough Congress 2023

335 participants (even more had been hoped for!!)

29/10/2023

Scarborough Junior Rapidplay 2023

Maksym Kryshtafor wins Under 11

28/10/2023

ECF National Club Championships 2023

Hull & District clubs win two of the three sections

22/10/2023

Sheffield Congress 2023

A successful revival of a previously-popular event

08/10/2023

Sheffield Chess Centre Open Junior Congress

Open won by Maksym Kryshtafor of York

24/09/2023

The Keddie Cup Rapidplay team competition in memory of David Keddie

21/09/2023

Yorkshire Individual Championship

won by Joe Varley at Hull Congress

10/09/2023

Hull 4NCL Congress 2023

with 6 games

10/09/2023

6th Darnall & Handsworth Rapidplay

Numbers 25% down on March event

02/09/2023

British Championships 2023, Day 11

Final day: Adams is Champion; 6 Championship games.

30/07/2023

British Championships 2023, Day 10

4 championship games, 3 under-10 games

29/07/2023

British Championships 2023, Day 9

4 Championship games

28/07/2023

British Championships 2023, Day 8

3 Championship games

27/07/2023

British Championships 2023, Day 7

3 Championship games

26/07/2023

British Championships 2023, Day 6  Start of the Junior Championships; 3 Championship games

25/07/2023

British Championships 2023, Day 5  Start of the Over-nn Championships; 5 main Champ’ games

24/07/2023

British Championships 2023, Day 4

Weekend event ends; two more games

23/07/2023

British Championships 2023, Day 3

Results of Yorkshire players; two games

22/07/2023

British Championships 2023, Days 1 and 2

Results of Yorkshire players

21/07/2023

Click here for Index to Earlier Reports &c

 

Notices & Articles

(notice date)

ECF Elections

An update since 28/08/2024 below

10/09/2024

Mike Denison Obituary

potentially to be added to

09/09/2024

Sunday Junior Chess in York Library

supplementing Wednesday sessions not available to all

06/09/2024

Death of Mike Denison

Obituary to follow

05/09/2024

Promoting Chess Among Girls

from Peter Cloudsdale

04/09/2024

Jacob Bronowski playing in the Woodhouse Cup

by David Mills

02/09/2024

ECF Elections

Nominations are being invited

28/08/2024

Appeal for County-Match Players

from Steve Westmoreland

20/08/2024

Yorkshire Championship 2024

arrangements finalised

14/08/2024

Lincoln Rapidplay

Notice of forthcoming event

11/08/2024

2024-25 League Fixtures

Now posted to LMS and this site

11/08/2024

NCCU AGM Report

Lancashire expected to be entering teams

21/07/2024

ECF Grassroot Chess Development

Scheme announced

16/07/2024

YCA AGM 2024

“Unofficial” report on outcomes

04/07/2024

YCA AGM Papers

Report from Secretary for Junior Chess

29/06/2024

Extra Information from the Competitions Controller

as he cannot attend the AGM

25/06/2024

YCA AGM Papers

concluding pre-meeting paperwork

25/06/2024

YCA AGM Notice and Agenda

with other papers to follow

07/06/2024

YCA ECF June Ratings

3,736 players with standard and/or rapidplay ratings

01/06/2024

YCA AGM

“When and where?” people are asking

31/05/2024

Yorkshire League – FINAL CALL FOR ENTRIES

Notice from Andrew Zigmond

28/05/2024

Yorkshire League Player Statistics

Who scored most points or scored highest percentages.

01/05/2024

Yorkshire ECF May Ratings

3,683 players of whom 453 played in the Yorks. League.

01/05/2024

ECF Finance Council Meeting

Fee increases; important info on Government grants

27/04/2024

South Lakes Congress Cancelled

Message from the congress organisers

26/04/2024

Yorkshire Juniors Selected to Play for England

in the Glorney Cup and related events

24/04/2024

Yorkshire League - end of season and looking forward

Notice from Andrew Zigmond

22/04/2024

ECF Finance Council Meeting, More Papers

re Game Fee, Pay-to-Play and DDCMS grant

09/04/2024

Ineligible Players

A look at 2023-24, 2022-23 and 2021-22

08/04/2024

Yorkshire v Staffordshire U-1850 27/04/2024

Arrangement details supplied by Rupert Jones

04/04/2024

ECF Finance Council Meeting, Notice Issued

With probable outcome of membership fee determination

04/04/2024

Update on Yorkshire v Kent U-1450 Match

Date and venue etc finalised

01/04/2024

Year-on-Year Growth in Numbers of Rated Players

in Yorkshire as compared with the ECF as a whole

01/04/2024

Yorkshire ECF April Ratings

3,646 “Yorkshire” players in the April list

01/04/2024

Yorkshire Under 1450 Team

Player recruitment appeal by team captain

29/03/2024

ECF County Championship Pairings

now announced

29/03/2024

ECF County Championships 2024

Participants and match schedule

25/03/2024

Incident at the Yorkshire v Northumberland Match

at Darlington on 24/03/2024

25/03/2024

Yorkshire League Rule A12

One violation, but no names mentioned

14/03/2024

Yorkshire League Rule A16

An analysis of reported results to date

12/03/2024

Yorkshire League Penalties Points

as incurred under Rule A5, now on LMS and here

05/03/2024

Sheffield International

IM-qualifier and FIDE-rated Open

02/03/2024

Yorkshire ECF March Ratings

3,604 “Yorkshire” players in the March list

01/03/2024

Results of Appeals

Report by Steve Westmoreland

29/02/2024

The Vexed Question of Mobile Phones

raises its head again

23/02/2024

YCA League Rules Now on YCA Website

c. 20 months after it being set up

23/02/2024

British Championships 2024

to be held in Hull, also the Glorney Cup

14/02/2024

1st Yorkshire Blitz Championship

Scheduled for 13th July 2024 at Bradford Latvians

12/02/2024

EJCOA Indiv. Champs. - South Yorkshire Zonal

at Sheffield Chess Centre on 20th April

05/02/2024

Lancashire and Inter-County Chess

Things evidently edging forwards

03/02/2024

Yorkshire ECF February Ratings

3,533 “Yorkshire” players in the February list

01/02/2024

Silver Rook

Update

29/01/2024

Silver Rook Play-Off Reporting

reaching the parts LMS does not reach

23/01/2024

British Rapidplay Championship

venue switched from Bradford to Peterborough

22/01/2024

Darnall & Handsworth FIDE-Rated Rapidplay

On Saturday 25th of March.  Now open for entries.

22/01/2024

Play-Off Stage of Silver Rook

Fixtures now published

16/01/2024

Scarborough Chess Club Rapidplay

Notice, with entry forms, of event on 11th May

12/01/2024

3rd Ilkley Congress

Sat. 22nd and Sun. 23rd June

08/01/2024

Cotswold Chess Congress

Sat, 25 to Mon. 27th May 2024 in Gloucester

07/01/2024

Yorkshire ECF January Ratings

3,487 “Yorkshire” players in the January list

01/01/2024

Yorkshire ECF December Ratings

With a decrease in A-category players (why?)

01/12/2023

Sheffield Chess Centre Rapidplay

16th December 2023 – entries invited

25/11/2023

ECF Board Appointments

New Finance Director and 3rd Non-Executive Director

12/11/2023

Yorkshire ECF November Ratings

with an increase in player total of 52 players

01/11/2023

New Doncaster Website

Doncaster & DCA back on the web

30/10/2023

ECF AGM 2023

Gold & Silver Membership levels merged; Bronze retained

15/10/2023

NCCU Pennine Cup (for U-18 teams) 2023-24

Announcement of arrangements

08/10/2023

Yorkshire ECF October Ratings

with an increase in player total of 52 players

01/10/2023

Sharing a Board with Douwe Hendrik Westra

Article by David Mills

27/09/2023

Sharing a Board with Roelof Douwe Westra

Article by David Mills

27/09/2023

Kirklees Library Chess

Article by Steve Westmoreland

26/09/2023

Yorkshire Chess County Teams

A county player-recruitment e-mail

21/09/2023

NCCU County Matches 2023-24

Entrants & pairings (but no dates yet)

21/09/2023

ECF Awards 2023

Two Yorkshire-based recipioents

20/09/2023

Inferences from Yorkshire Rating Statistics

in response to an inquirer

08/09/2023

What’s Happening on This Website

now that there is a new YCA website

04/09/2023

Yorkshire ECF September Ratings

with an increase in player total of just 14 players

01/09/2023

ECF Membership Structure (postscript)

numerical working

29/08/2023

ECF Membership Structure

Board proposals to October AGM

28/08/2023

Membership Renewal E-Mail from ECF

Problem with broken link

18/08/2023

Government Funding for Chess

is pre-announced in the press

14/08/2023

NCCU AGM

Summary report.  One Yorkshire action point.

13/08/2023

National Rating Distribution Bar-Chart

compared with the Yorkshire one

04/08/2023

Rating Distribution Bar-Chart

covering Yorkshire players in August rating list

03/08/2023

Yorkshire ECF August Ratings

which include results from the British Championships

01/08/2023

Yorkshire Open Team Captaincy

filled by Randy Donahue

27/07/2023

New YCA Website

Progress being made

26/07/2023

Finalised YCA League Fixtures for 2023-24

and change of name of teams from Hull & DCA

23/07/2023

British Championships 2023 have commenced

with 19+ Yorkshire players in main sections

22/07/2023

Click here for Index to Earlier Notices &c