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15/06/2022

Congress to Host the Yorkshire Individual Championship

 

One of the recurrent items on the YCA AGM agenda, raising its head again in 2022, is selection of a congress to host the Yorkshire Individual Championship.  A projected rota of congresses’ “turns” is maintained, though it is ever evolving to account for congresses falling by the wayside and new ones coming along.  It was decided some years ago that the rota would be based on calendar years rather than chess seasons.

 

Bradford was down to host the championship in 2021, but covid prevented Bradford 2021 proceeding, so Scarborough 2021 hosted it instead (though they may not have known it at the time!).  That “normally” would push the rota onwards a year, meaning Bradford would be offered the option for 2022.  However, the Bradford & DCA website says, “The Bradford District Chess Association will not be running a chess congress in 2022.  However, we are delighted to be supporting the Ilkley Chess Festival running between 16th & 18th September.”

 

In the past, it has happened that new congresses have been slotted in at the head of the list, pushing the others along a year, so it seems Ilkley would be an appropriate congress to host the 2022 Yorkshire Championship, if they wished.

 

A revision of the rota of projected “turns” is needed.  Scarborough, having hosted 2021 out of turn, should perhaps go to the end.  On the assumption Bradford is likely to return, then they will need slotting back in, perhaps immediately after Ilkley or in Scarborough’s original slot.  The following is the pre-covid rota and a suggested revised rota, which would of course continually evolve, for instance due to Leeds Congress not re-emerging, as seems likely.

 

Year

Pre‑covid Rota

Suggested New Rota

2021

Bradford

 

2022

Leeds

Ilkley

2023

Hull

Bradford

2024

Scarborough

Leeds

2025

Huddersfield

Hull

2026

Doncaster

Huddersfield

2027

 

Doncaster

2028

 

Scarborough

2029

 

Ilkley

 

Sheffield and York Congresses no longer appear as both ceased running some time ago.

 

For information, recent hosts (and winners) have been

2012

Sheffield 2012

Jim Burnett

2013

York 2013

Mike Hankinson

2014

Doncaster 2014

Peter Shaw

2015

Bradford 2015

Mike Hankinson

2016

Leeds 2016

Jim Burnett

2017

Hull 2017

John G Cooper

2018

Scarborough 2018

Robert Starley

2019

Huddersfield 2019

Jim Burnett

2020

Doncaster 2020

Oskar Hackner

2021

Scarborough 2021

Andrew Ledger

 

Steve Mann,

15/06/2022