20/06/2021
3rd Kelham Island
One-Day Outdoor Over-the-Board Rapidplays
This
took place on Sunday 20/06/2021. Entries were down on the 2nd event,
which organiser Geoff Brown attributed to reasons including the clash with
Father’s Day, the weather forecast (“Light rain and a gentle breeze” being
forecast by the BBC weather website), and the clash with the British Chess
Problem Society AGM (which took out Brian Stephenson).
Reduced
numbers meant only three venues were needed, with the Fat Cat not being
used this time:
Millowners
Arms,
next to Kelham Island Museum, Alma Street, Sheffield S3 8RY
Saw
Grinders Union,
Globe Works, Penistone Road, Sheffield S6 3AE
Yellow
Arch Studio,
30-36 Burton Road, Neepsend, Sheffield S3 8BX
(Strictly,
of these only the Millowners Arms is on, or adjacent to, Kelham Island
proper; see below for Kelham Island’s historic
tenuous chess connection.)
4
players were lined up for each venue, with Geoff lurking in the background
as a reserve to cover for any last-minute withdrawal.
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Millowners Arms
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Round 1: 11:15
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Final Scores
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Oliver Brennan
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1-0
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Marek Gajdosz
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Nathaniel Holroyd‑Doveton
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2½
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Nathaniel Holroyd‑Doveton
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1-0
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Mattiangelo D'Agnese
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Oliver Brennan
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2
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Marek
Gajdosz
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1½
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Round 2: 12:15
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Mattiangelo D'Agnese
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0
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Marek Gajdosz
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1-0
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Mattiangelo D'Agnese
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Oliver Brennan
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0-1
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Nathaniel Holroyd‑Doveton
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Round 3: 13:15
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Nathaniel Holroyd-Doveton
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½‑½
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Marek Gajdosz
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Mattiangelo D'Agnese
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0-1
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Oliver Brennan
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Saw Grinders Union
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Round 1: 11:15
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Final Scores
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Hamza Ditta
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0-1
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Craig Chatterton
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Craig Chatterton
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2½
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Andrew Nettleship
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0-1
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Ian Barker
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Ian Barker
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2
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Andrew Nettleship
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1
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Round 2: 12:15
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Hamza
Ditta
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½
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Craig Chatterton
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½-½
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Ian Barker
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Hamza Ditta
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0-1
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Andrew Nettleship
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Round 3: 13:15
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Andrew Nettleship
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0-1
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Craig Chatterton
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Ian Barker
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½-½
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Hamza Ditta
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Yellow Arch Studio
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Round 1: 12:15
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Final Scores
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Rosie Irwin
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0-1
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Geoff Frost
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Jonathan W Arnott
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3
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Jonathan W Arnott
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1-0
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Ken Hunter
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Geoff Frost
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2
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Ken
Hunter
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1
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Round 2: 13:15
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Rosie
Irwin
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0
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Geoff Frost
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1-0
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Ken Hunter
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Rosie Irwin
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0-1
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Jonathan W Arnott
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Round 3: 14:15
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Jonathan W Arnott
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1-0
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Geoff Frost
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Ken Hunter
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1-0
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Rosie Irwin
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Kelham
Island, and an Earlier Chess Connection
Kelham
sland was artificially created by the diversion of part of the Don to form
a millrace to power a waterwheel, that supposedly being in the
1180’s. As water from the millrace re-entered the Don a little further
downstream, an island in the Don was so created.
Nowadays,
the “Kelham Island Quarter”, as the trendy new terminology has it, extends
beyond the original artificial island in the Don into a wider part of the
district known as Neepsend.
Premises
on the island itself included the Union Wheel, accessed from Alma
Street. The Union Wheel, or Union Grinding
Wheel, was a steam-powered cutlery factory owned by a group of businessmen
who rented individual workshops to cutlers and others, who would power their
grinding wheels with drive-belts from the main wheel axle.
Chess-player Tusting Johnson Cocking was secretary around 1849. This
seems to have been something of a family business since the secretary in
1911 was one Alfred F. Cocking. Archaeological excavations took place
at the site on Alma Street over the period April 2003 to July 2008.
Sheffield Museums owns a depiction of the interior in use by cutlers,
painted by Sheffield-born artist William J. Stevenson (1835-1905).
When fellow chess-player Dr John Charles Hall wrote about disease among Sheffield grinders in The British
Medical Journal of 28th March 1857, he reported that the average age at
death of grinders at the Union Wheel, over the period 1850 to 1857, was 40
years. Dr. Hall appears to have been instrumental in the
introduction of the practice of having water running over the grinding
process to reduce the amount of hazardous dust being breathed in.
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