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10/02/2021

Ridings (Farthings?) Cup

 

As indicated earlier, Competitions Controller Andrew Zigmond has set out his plans regarding the next YCA team on-line team event.  The following is from an e-mail from Andrew:

 

A while ago I floated the idea of an internal competition between the four sections of the county; North, South, East and West - I'm loosely calling it the Ridings cup although I'm having to make a disclaimer every time that I know the South isn't a Riding (some people get quite passionate about that).  The interest was there so the event is going ahead over twelve boards on the following dates.

 

March 6th:

North vs South,

West vs East

March 27th:

East vs North,

West vs South

April 10th:

North vs West,

South vs East

 

I've given teams permission to move all matches for the first two rounds to the Sunday that follows by mutual agreement.  The event will be played on lichess, but I'm toying with the idea of making it an annual over-the-board if/when circumstances permit - matches will take place on three Sundays that follow Yorkshire league Saturdays.

 

The one problem I can foresee is a potential overlap with the NCCU stages of the county championship.  In some ways it might complement it, being a stepping stone for club players to gain a taste for inter-county chess but it takes away three potential fixtures for Lancashire (and other) matches which I know can be hard to get scheduled in at the best of times (although I can probably get the event out of the way earlier in the season).

 

Andrew

 

 

Webmaster’s linguistic observations:

 

Quite apart from the fact that South Yorkshire was never a “Riding” outside fiction, the meaning of “riding” is “one of three parts”.  “Riding” comes, by loss of the “th”, from “thriding” which comes from “thrid”, which itself has changed a little, passing into modern English, through metathesis, as “third”.  The word for “one of four parts” is “farthing”, from “fourthing” with a vowel shift.

 

So, how about “Farthing Cup”!?

 

The Riding system of local government was introduced by the Danes, another such tripartite system in Danelaw being that governed from Lincoln, where the old “thridings” of Lincolnshire were known in modern times as Lindsey, Kesteven and Holland.