Best of Yorkshire Chess

[Neil Pennock]

One of the things I did whilst we had Covid lock downs was capture the games from the Yorkshire Chess Bulletins which you made available on the Yorkshire Chess site. I am pretty sure I have got the moves of the games right even when there was some lack of clarity in the published version. I was planning to go back and check the names as some typos could easily have happened but have never got round to this but this should not stop members enjoying the games. I attach the file as a PGN

YorkshireCAB.pgn

Yorkshire Games

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[MartinCarpenter]

Fine effort I've never been quite sure if we should be sad, or glad (less effort!) about the Woodhouse being off databases.

I'm not quite who should have it. Steve Mann is the obvious thought, although he has stopped updating his Yorkshire chess history website. You can get his email to ask from the Sheffield and District website that it looks like he's still doing.

I'd guess he'd be most likely to know at least.

[Neil Pennock]

I think that it is a great pity that more Yorkshire League games, particularly the Woodhouse Cup, have not made it into the databases for more players to enjoy. The book a Chess Biography of Fred Dewhirst Yates by Vlastimil Fiala contains much information on Yates participation in Yorkshire competitions and games. Yates is just one strong player that has competed in the Woodhouse Cup over the years and the games are worth preserving.

I have let Steve Mann have a copy of the games. His Yorkshire Chess site is no longer active as this involved a tremendous amount of work and he has moved on to other projects. I have also moved on to collecting other games with a Yorkshire link.

[Mick Norris]

Fine effort I've never been quite sure if we should be sad, or glad (less effort!) about the Woodhouse being off databases.

I'm not quite who should have it. Steve Mann is the obvious thought, although he has stopped updating his Yorkshire chess history website. You can get his email to ask from the Sheffield and District website that it looks like he's still doing.

I'd guess he'd be most likely to know at least.

There's quite a few bulletins if you want to go through them

[MartinCarpenter]

Fine effort I've never been quite sure if we should be sad, or glad (less effort!) about the Woodhouse being off databases.

I'm not quite who should have it. Steve Mann is the obvious thought, although he has stopped updating his Yorkshire chess history website. You can get his email to ask from the Sheffield and District website that it looks like he's still doing.

I'd guess he'd be most likely to know at least.

There's quite a few bulletins if you want to go through them

Finishing about a year and a half before I started playing in the league it seems Martyn H playing postal chess for Lancashire.

I'm still not quite sure how valuable the Woodhouse games would be. Lots of strong players but also a lot of their games were against rather weaker opposition. Which can make for very pretty, logically driven, games of course - some of my York team mates have been very watchable over the years - and the various dominant teams would give some fine case studies about how to do that efficiently at a club level.
(Not me really, my games trend to absent minded chaos and that's not really quite the way.).

[Gerard Killoran]

Unfortunately, the word 'bulletin' is misspelt 'bullitin' all the way through. I suggest you open the pgn file in a text editor/word processor and do a search and replace. There are other spelling mistakes that need correcting too.