The first round of matches in the 2022-23 Yorkshire League was played on Saturday 24/09/2022, in what is hoped will prove to be post-Covid normality, though the fact that some players are in no hurry to return to regular over-the-board chess means numbers of teams are slightly down.

Sheffield is down to only two teams, and 2022-23 is the first season in living memory, indeed virtually all of the history of the competition, in which Sheffield was not had a team in the Woodhouse Cup. Sheffield A, captained by Daniel Sullivan, is in the Woodhouse Cup competition (division 1) and Sheffield B, captained by Geoff Brown, is in the I. M. Brown Shield competition (division 2).

Sheffield’s first-round results were impressive, being as follows.

	Wakefield A	½‑7½	Sheffield A		Alwoodley A	1½‑6½	Sheffield B
B	Shaw, Peter	0-1	Ledger, Andrew J	B	Karumazondo, Rangarirai E	0-1	Idle, Oscar J
W	Cuaresma, Gerald	½-½	Nelson, Jonathan P	W	Vickery, Jim E	0-1	Edwards‑Wright, Miles D
B	Holi, Siefaldin A	0-1	Burnett, Jim	B	May, Paul	0-1	Wills, Tom
W	Tinker, Chris R	0-1	Latham, David	W	Pedro, David L	1-0	Gajdosz, Marek
B	Cuaresma, Bien	0-1	Ackley, Peter JE	B	Hipshon, John	½-½	Gollins, Tim
W	Myers, J	0-1	Potts, Alan W	W	Terrington, Chris J	0-1	Brown, Geoffrey D
B	Skinner, Simon	0-1	Webster, Richard J	B	Rowe, Angelica	0-1	Mercy, John R
W	Wilson, Richard	0-1	Sullivan, Daniel JS	W	Nayak, Varun	0-1	Holroyd‑Doveton, Nathaniel

There are of course significantly stronger teams to be encountered later.

The next round is to be played on 8th October, when Sheffield A is at home to York B, and Sheffield B is at home to Huddersfield.

Details of other Yorkshire League results can be seen here.