Game Collection: National and Regional Tournaments

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13th CCA Congress, Birmingham (1883)
Game Collection: 13th CCA Congress, Class 2, Birmingham
Game Collection: 13th CCA Congress, Class 2B, Birmingham
Game Collection: 13th CCA Congress, Class 3, Birmingham
Game Collection: 13th CCA Congress, Handicap, Birmingham

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The Counties Chess Association.

The Annual Meeting of this Association will be held at Birmingham during the week commencing Monday 30th inst, at the Birmingham and Midland Institute. The following is the programme:—

Tournaments.

Class I.—Entrance fee, £1 1s. First prize, £15; Second prize, £7 10s.; Third prize, £5; open to all provincial amateurs, and to Metropolitan amateurs by permission of the Committee. Time limit twenty moves to an hour must be observed.

Class II.—Entrance fee, 10s. 6d. First prize, £6; Second prize, £4; Third prize, £2; open to all amateurs not strong enough for Class I.

Class III.—Evening Tournament. Entrance fee, 5s. First prize, £5; Second prize, £3; Third prize, £2; open to amateurs not strong enough for Class I.

The Prizes in the above Tournaments may be increased should the entries justify the Committee in making any such increase respectively.

The Executive Committee (consisting of the Members of the General Committee present at the Meeting, and of the Local Committee, Treasurer, and Honorary Secretaries), reserve the right of diminishing the prizes in either of the above Classes in which there may not be eight entries.

The first move in these matches will be arranged in the usual way, and the player who has the move shall play with the white men, and shall be bound to take down and furnish to the Executive Committee a correct record of the moves in the game. A prize may be withheld from any Competitor failing to comply with this regulation.

The Competitors in these class (except in the evening Tournament) are expected to play in both parts of the day, but will not be called upon to complete more than two match games in the same day unless they choose.

Players wishing to compete in any of the above Tournaments must send in their names, with their Subscriptions and Entrance Fee, to Mr. Clere prior to the meeting; no entry will be acknowledged unless accompanied with the remittance.

Handicap Tournament of 8 or 16 players. Entrance fee, 2s. 6d.; with the addition of an equal amount from the funds of the Association. The prizes will be apportioned in the same ratio as at the Evening Tournament.

This Tournament is intended to be played in the evenings, and the entrance for it must be made by or before six o'clock on the evening of Tuesday, the 31st July, when it will commence. It will be played in the principle of pairing the players.

Other Tournaments and arrangements will be made to suit the convenience of visitors and others should it be found desirable.

Play will commence on Monday, July 30th 1883, at 7 p.m., and will be continued from 10.40 a.m. to 3.30 p.m., and from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.; any game may be continued during the interval by the mutual consent of the players engaged in it.

Any player failing to attend after the first evening within a quarter of an hour of the time appointed will be fined One Shilling, and if half an hour behind time will be liable either to a fine of half the entrance fee for the match in which he is engaged, or to have the game recorded against him, unless he can satisfy the Executive Committee of the reason for his detention.

All fines shall be paid as directed by the Executive Committee and added to the funds of the Association.

The Business Meeting of the Association will be held on Friday, the 3rd August, at 3.30 p.m., after which Luncheon will be provided.

The arrangements for each day's play, &c., will be made by the Executive Committee and posted in the room as early as practicable.

None of the games played may be published until a month after the conclusion of the meeting without the consent of the Executive Committee.

Cheques and Post Office Orders should be made payable to Mr. C. Wallbank, the Treasurer, and sent to Mr. H. Clere, 17 Bennett's Hill, Birmingham. Orders to be on the Birmingham Office.

All persons attending the meeting are considered pledged to observe the regulations or directions of the Executive Committee, and any disputed points which may arise shall be referred to their decision which shall be final.

Arrangements will be made for finding opponents for members who may not wish to join in the Tournaments.

Tournaments will be arranged for visitors who may not be able to attend more than one day if sufficient entries are forthcoming.

Further information may be obtained from
The Rev. A. B. Skipworth, Tetford Rectory, Horncastle.
Mr. H. Clere, 17, Bennett's Hill, Birmingham.

Chess Player's Chronicle, 25 July 1883, pp58-59
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Game Collection: National and Regional Tournaments