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1908-09: County Matches |
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< 1907-08 County Matches – 1909-10 County Matches > 1) Northern Counties' Championship
Yorkshire met Lancashire over 30 boards on Saturday 20/03/1909 at Bradford Town Hall, at the invitation of the Mayor of Bradford, Mr. James Hill, who, in his speech of welcome confessed to having been playing chess on and off for thirty years “at intervals of ten years.”
(@ = unfinished games which were adjudicated)
At close of play the score stood at 15½-11½ in favour of Lancashire who had won the match irrespective of adjudication results.
[Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 22/03/1909; Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, 31/03/1909 (adj. results)]
2) Yorkshire v Ireland, Correspondence Match
A correspondence match between Yorkshire and Ireland, over 80 boards, one game per board, was completed in 1909. At close of play six games remained unfinished, these being adjudicated by J. H. Blackburne. Yorkshire won 31 games, drew 23 and lost 26. The final score was thus
Yorkshire 42½-37½ Ireland
Collating and typing out details of all 80 games would be tedious, but results of the six Sheffield players taking part, as reported in the Sheffield Daily Telegraph, were as follows:
W J Berryman was resident in England, but still played correspondence chess for Ireland. By some time in 1909 he had moved to Barnsley, though whether he started this match from Barnsley is unclear.
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Created 16/11/2018 |
Stephen John Mann |
Last Updated 16/11/2018 |