Sheffield League players filled the top three spots in the recently finished Classical Online Championship, run by Rotherham Online, which attracted 58 entries from clubs throughout Yorkshire.

Outright winner with 7/8 was Chesterfield’s Peter Ackley, ahead of SASCA’s Tom Wills, 6½, and third placed Paul Fletcher (Hillsborough) with 6 points.

Harrogate’s Steve Wild, 5½, who lost to Ackley in the last round, finished fourth on tie-break ahead of Huddersfield’s Greg Eagleton, also 5½.

Former Moortown and York RI player Richard Allis, who led at the halfway stage, finished 20^th on tie-break with 4½.

Full list of final scores (out of 8):

On-Line Championship Season 6
1	Peter Ackley	7
2	Thomas Wills	6½
3	Paul Fletcher	6
4	Steve Wild	5½
5	Greg Eagleton	5½
6	Pete Micklethwaite	5½
7	Keir Morton	5½
8	Peter Catt	5½
9	Reuben Litherland	5½
10	Andrew Birtwhistle	5½
11	Kenneth Hunter	5½
12	Oliver Brennan	5
13	Chris Bak	5
14	Edouardos Ter Gkevorkian	5
15	Andrew Zigmond	5
16	Michael Freund	5
17	Ian Barker	4½
17	Bryan Wood	4½
19	Alec Grice	4½
20	Richard Allis	4½
21	Tony Botteley	4½
22	Ilan Dwek	4½
23	Neil Griffiths	4½
24	Stephen Greep	4½
25	Craig Chatterton	4
26	Warren Dennison	4
27	David William Adam	4
28	Geoff D Brown	4
29	Steve Gibson	4
30	Neal Fisher	4
31	Paul Greenwood	4
32	Dominic Gallagher	4
33	Ian Scott	4
34	Richard Dennis	3½
35	Vivien Webster	3½
36	Neil Todd	3½
37	Nathaniel Holroyd‑Doveton	3½
38	Mark Lomas	3½
39	Ben Wood	3
40	Simon Jones	3
41	Robert Dennington	3
42	Joe Primrose	3
43	John Baker	3
44	Jason Clemmey	3
45	Craig Sharpe	3
46	Andrew Nettleship	3
47	Michael Pollard	3
48	George Boothman	2½
49	Tony Perry	2½
50	Kevin Randle	2½
51	James Vickers	2
52	Shane Williams	2
53	Desmond Masterson	2
54	James Allen	1½
55	Daniel Crampton	1
56	Harry Feather	1
57	Robert Shaw	0
58	Luke Saeed	0

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Peter Catt