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02/04/2023 Harrogate Reserves v Holmfirth Reserves
The Silver Rook match Harrogate C v Holmfirth B was extended by a 4-board “reserves” match giving graded games to eight more players:
Such games could not have been incorporated within the rules as additional boards in the Silver Rook match. Interestingly, however, the lowest division of the Sheffield winter league allows for the minimum four boards of that division to be increased by mutual agreement between the teams to 5 or 6 boards, the next-higher division being of 6 boards per team. By analogy, the Silver Rook (as lowest division, with less prescribed boards than the division above), could under revised rules be extended by such mutual agreement to allow teams of 7 or 8 boards - or more.
A side-effect of such rule flexibility is that in the event of a tie on match points, teams having fielded larger teams would be more likely to win the tie-break on game points. That potentially perceived problem is partly mitigated by considering game points only in the matches between the teams in the tie-break, though a team sticking to the 4-player minimum could still lose out unfairly in a tie with teams fielding 6-player teams. A game-point tie-break could be based on only the top prescribed minimum number of boards, to avoid such potential problems.
Since this report was originally posted, Steve Westmoreland of Holmfirth has added the following text along with a photograph:
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