The second round of the Farthing Cup was played on 27/03/2021, with North and South Farthings winning their respective matches. South recorded a second “steady” 8-4 win, but North pulled a veritable warren of rabbits out of the hat, producing a 10½-1½ win. Scoring is primarily on game points, and the South farthing is now in the lead. (See table below.)

The third and final round is scheduled for 10/04/2021, when South plays East, and North plays West.

The webmaster was able to extract from Lichess 9 of the 12 games played in the West v South match. To play through these games on screen, in the West v South match result below, click on the underlined game result concerned.

(Click on match score to go to match details.)

Home Team	P	W	D	L	For	Pts	S Y	N Y	E Y	W Y
South Yorkshire	2	2	0	0	16	4	XXX
North Yorkshire	2	1	0	1	14½	2	4-8	XXX
East Yorkshire	2	1	0	1	10½	2		1½-10½	XXX
West Yorkshire	2	0	0	2	7	0	4-8		3-9	XXX

			Matches played		27/03/2021

	East Yorkshire	1½-10½	North Yorkshire		West Yorkshire	4-8	South Yorkshire
B	Douglas Vleeshhouwer	0-1	Mate Ther	B	John Hall	1-0	Oskar A Hackner
W	Simon Smith	½-½	Paul M Barber	W	Mike Bramson	0-1	Peter JE Ackley
B	Steve R Hodge	0-1	Mike R Stokes	B	David Keddie	1-0	Peter Micklethwaite
W	Keith Thompson	0-1	Ben S Rich	W	Dale H Cullum	1-0	Marek Gajdosz
B	John Thackray	0-1	Brian H Coop	B	Ludi Simpson	0-1	Geoff Frost
W	Paul SN Kendall	0-1	Adam Bedi	W	John Hipshon	0-1	Bryan Wood
B	Ned Carmichael	0-1	Ewen Miller	B	Chris J Terrington	0-1	Oliver Brennan
W	Joe Varley	1-0	Peter Rawcliffe	W	Angelica Rowe	0-1	Ben Wood
B	Stephen Greep	0-1	Aaron Rich	B	Elinor Gorrell	0-1	Richard F Hall
W	Peter T Perkins	0-1	Bradley Triffitt	W	Nicholas Waite	0-1	Daniel J Clayton
B	Gabriel Wood	0-1	Daniel Meredith	B	Simon Jones	0-1	George D Boothman
W	Philip A Wood	0-1	Phillip Payne	W	Zach Cansdale	1-0	Luke Harper

			Matches played		06/03/2021

	North Yorkshire	4-8	South Yorkshire		West Yorkshire	3-9	East Yorkshire
B	Paul M Barber	0-1	Oskar A Hackner	B	John Hall	0-1	John G Cooper
W	Ben S Rich	½-½	Jonathan W Arnott	W	David Barlow	0-1	Simon Smith
B	SF Wild	0-1	Peter Micklethwaite	B	David Keddie	1-0	Douglas Vleeshhouwer
W	Brian H Coop	0-1	Marek Gajdosz	W	Dale H Cullum	½-½	Keith Thompson
B	Adam Bedi	0-1	Tom Wills	B	David W Adam	0-1	John Thackray
W	Paul A Johnson	1-0	Geoff Frost	W	Ludi Simpson	0-1	Paul SN Kendall
B	Ewen Miller	1-0	Bryan Wood	B	John Hipshon	1-0	Ned Carmichael
W	Peter Rawcliffe	0-1	Ben Wood	W	Chris J Terrington	0-1	Stephen Greep
B	Andrew Zigmond	0-1	Richard F Hall	B	Angelica Rowe	½-½	Alec Grice
W	Aaron Rich	½-½	W Bill Ward	W	Elinor Gorrell	0-1	Peter T Perkins
B	Bradley Triffitt	1-0	George D Boothman	B	Nicholas Waite	0-1	Gabriel Wood
W	Daniel Meredith	0-1	Daniel J Clayton	W	Simon Jones	0-1	Philip A Wood