Yorkshire Chess Association Year Book 2017-2018 |
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Calendar of Events – Results/Reports |
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English County Championship Finals 2017
Photos taken by Steve Mann (Flash photography was banned, and close-up photography in the Open room seemed to be too intrusive.)
Rupert Jones receiving the U-160 trophy from ECF Chief Executive Mike Truran. (Left to right at back: Paul Johnson, David Stephenson, Nick Mahoney and Paul Day.)
Karim Khan (Bradford) demonstrating the validity of the Orwellian principle “four pawns good: two pawns bad” to Heywood Congress-organiser and former Lancashire secretary Bill O’Rourke.
Standing, left to right: Paul Johnson (York), Nick Mahoney (Doncaster) and Paul Day (Bradford) - being shown how it’s done by Randy Donahue (Leeds).
Paul Day (Bradford) makes his move, watched by non-playing captain Rupert Jones (Leeds CCCC). (U-180 section arbiter, Sheffield & DCA’s Phill Beckett, is in blue T-shirt on right.)
In the Open: Daniel Sullivan (chin in hand, Sheffield) and Harry Li (red hoody, Alwoodley) watched by John Nelson (standing, right foreground, Sheffield). Further along same row, obscured, left to right: Peter Shaw (blue shirt, Wakefield), Phil Watson (darker blue shirt, Calderdale) and Peter Gayson (hair/forehead only, Bradford). On far table, facing, left to right: Paul Townsend (York), Jean Luc Weller (York), Matthias Gantner (Bradford), and Andrew Ledger (Sheffield)
The U-160 trophy. (This was originally the BCF’s Counties Third Team Championship trophy.)
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