Role of Chess Counties in the MCCU
Ten county chess associations - Derbyshire, Herefordshire, Leicestershire & Rutland, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, and Worcestershire - currently form the MCCU. At times in the past, the Manchester Chess Federation, playing as Greater Manchester (currently affiliated to the NCCU), Oxfordshire (currently without affiliation) and Huntingdonshire (now part of Cambridgeshire CA in the EACU) were members of the MCCU.
The counties have agreed annual funds based on the level of chess activity in each county to pay for the competitions run by the MCCU. Each county association has four votes at the annual MCCU general meeting and may send more than one delegate or appoint a proxy vote.
Most of the county associations forming the MCCU field teams in inter-county competitions organised by the MCCU. The Covid epidemic has reduced players’ willingness to travel to distant away venues and there is a reduced level of activity in the 2021-3 seasons. Traditionally, Herefordshire and Northamptonshire have not competed as teams. In 2022-3 season only Lincolnshire, Notottinghamshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire entered teams in the MCCU county teams competitions.If you are keen to organise a county team, please talk to your county secretary and the MCCU Chief Executive Officer.
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The ten counties that form the MCCU |
County Association Directory
If the relevant details are not available from the linked county association's website and you wish to contact a county chess association secretary, a delegate or officer to the Midlands Chess Counties Union, please contact Ray Dolan, CEO MCCU.
Secretary: John D.Hoddy
MCCU delegate: Simon Gilmore |
Nottinghamshire website
Secretary: Chris Budd
MCCU delegate 1: Tim Walker
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Secretary: Alan Leary
MCCU delegate: Alan Leary |
Secretary: Tony Preece
MCCU delegate 1: Roger Brown
MCCU delegate 2: Glyn Pugh |
Leicestershire & Rutland website
Secretary: John Pattinson
MCCU delegate 1: Shabir Okhai
MCCU delegate 2: Paul Mottram
MCCU delegate 3: John Mitchell
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Secretary: Peter Evans
MCCU delegate 1: Peter Evans
MCCU delegate 2: Ray Dolan
MCCU delegate 3: Stephen Smithson
MCCU delegate 4: Eunice Dolan
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Secretary: vacant. Please contact Nigel Birtwistle
MCCU delegate 1: Peter Sherlock
MCCU delegate 2: Ian Scott
MCCU delegate 3: William Orr
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Secretary: David Thomas
MCCU delegate 1: Alex Holowczak
MCCU delegate 2: Richard Buxton
MCCU delegate 3: vacant
MCCU delegate 4: vacant |
Northamptonshire website
Secretary: Keith Ball
MCCU delegate: Chris Gibson |
Worcestershire website
Secretary: Paul Sharratt
MCCU delegate 1: Paul Sharratt
MCCU delegate 2: Stephen Woodhouse
MCCU delegate 3: Tony Shaw
MCCU delegate 4:
Adrian Griffiths |
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