The Sheffield Chess Congress of 2017 was held from Friday 23/06/2017 to 25/06/2017, at its now-customary venue of King Edward VII School, Glossop Road, Sheffield, S10 2PW.

There were 180 participants (people who actually turned up and played at least one game – entrants and participants usually differ in number!). “Resident” organisers Phill Beckett, Steve Mann, Brian Stephenson and Nigel Carpino were assisted, as regards controlling the Open and Major, by former ECF Chief Arbiter Dave Welch (historically a Sheffield league player, when resident long ago in Chesterfield) and Jim Burnett of Doncaster Chess Congress.

As an aside, the possibility of doing pairings by computer in future is being investigated.

The present series of Sheffield Chess Congresses started in 2011. (There have been two previous series.) The number of participants, year-on-year, is steadily increasing, but for a blip in one year:

	Open	Major	Inter	Minor	Total
2011	33	30	32	31	126
2012	30	34	38	32	134
2013	31	43	32	45	151
2014	28	37	31	42	138
2015	40	32	49	34	155
2016	37	27	49	44	157
2017	38	35	47	60	180

The links above lead to separate pages showing each sections’ results.