Yorkshire met Lancashire in both the U-120 section of the Northern Counties Chess Union’s inter-county team championships on Sunday, 15/04/2018, at Bury Bridge Club, Art Gallery, Moss Street, Bury BL9 0DF.

Yorkshire captain David Mills expected a relatively weak, newly formed Yorkshire U-120 team to perform “modestly”, but to get some useful experience. Results were as follows:

Bd	Col	Lancashire	8-4	Yorkshire
1		Neil Jerzynek (Oldham)	½‑½	Steve Harrington (Belgrave)
2		Paul Latham (St Helens)	1-0	Rodney Mitchinson (York RI)
3		Mark Southby (Heywood)	1-0	Stephen Burton (West Leeds)
4		Frank Bishop (Poulton-le-Fylde)	1-0	Samuel J. Playford (Rose Forgrove)
5		Ken Gorman (Poulton-le-Fylde)	0-1	Howard Brears (York RI)
6		Steve Crook (Chorley)	½-½	Ivor Timmis (Alwoodley)
7		Anthony Jinks (Heywood)	0-1	Brendan Briggs (Huddersfield)
8		Shaked Nussbaum (Heywood)	1-0	Paul Masiak (York RI)
9		Peter Hurn (Heywood)	½-½	Harry Feather (Darnall & Handsworth)
10		Jeff Wilson (Oldham)	1-0	Sara Hussain (Alwoodley)
11		Aisha Benhamida (Tameside)	½-½	Sylvan Clarke (Alwoodley)
12		Mohammed Benhamida (Tameside)	1-0	Zoravar Sandhu (Hebden Bridge)

Congratulations to the Lancashire team who, with NCCU U-120 winners Merseyside, progress to the ECF County Championship “finals stages”.

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