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This website does not aim to contain
extensive historical details of the Sheffield & District Chess
Association, only relatively recent archival material, but there is a
“Sheffield” sub-site within the Yorkshire
Chess History website, hosted on the same web space as this website.
You can go directly to any of the main
topics therein by clicking on the following links.
(Use your browser’s “back” function to
return to this site, as with any external site.)
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Narrative
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Overview of the development of organised
chess in Sheffield.
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Organisations
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Just a few of the earlier chess clubs &c
of note, the Sheffield Athenaeum CC being the most important.
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Events
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Sheffield Athenaeum Chess Club v. Rest of
the Sheffield & District CA was the “Annual Match” of yesteryear.
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People
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Including the eponymous (Arthur) Davy,
Weston, Batley, Charles, Richardson, Bruce, Moses, Gurnhill, Crabb, etc
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Competitions
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Those you know, and the odd one or two you
do not. (Obviously intertwined.)
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Trophies
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On
the main Yorkshire Chess History website’s “Events” section, details of
Sheffield representative matches from the distant past obviously feature
among the Woodhouse Cup results (1884-85 onwards) which are being slowly
built up as limited time permits, as are details of Yorkshire inter-county
matches (1871 onwards) in which a number of Sheffield players obviously
feature. Life is too short to give the I. M. Brown Shield etc any
detailed attention.
(The Yorkshire Chess
History website is a never-ending “work in progress”, so its contents expand
as time permits.
The Sheffield element
is obviously of secondary priority.)
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