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Updated 20 July 2019

Roll of Honour: MCCU County Team Champions

The webmaster would much appreciate receiving information for:
1958, 1967, 1968, 1971, 1975 and 1976.

Year County Champions Year County Champions
1898 Leicestershire 1960 Warwickshire
1899 Worcestershire 1961 Warwickshire
1900 Warwickshire 1962 Warwickshire
1901 Worcestershire 1963 Warwickshire
1902 Leicestershire 1964 Warwickshire
1903 Worcestershire 1965 Warwickshire
1904 Warwickshire 1966 Warwickshire
1905 Warwickshire 1967 Warwickshire
1906 Leicestershire 1968 Staffordshire
1907 Warwickshire 1969 Warwickshire
1908 Warwickshire 1970 Warwickshire
1909 Warwickshire 1971 ?Staffs or Warks
1910 Oxfordshire 1972 Nottinghamshire
1911 Leicestershire 1973 Warwickshire
1912 Leicestershire 1974 Warwickshire
1913 Staffordshire 1975 ?Notts or Warks
1914 Warwickshire 1976 Warwickshire
1915 Shropshire 1977 Greater Manchester
1916 War time suspension 1978 Greater Manchester
1917 War time suspension 1979 Greater Manchester
1918 War time suspension 1980 Greater Manchester
1919 War time suspension 1981 Greater Manchester
1920 Oxfordshire 1982 Warwickshire
1921 Warwickshire 1983 Greater Manchester
1922 Warwickshire 1984 Greater Manchester
1923 Warwickshire 1985 Leicestershire
1924 Warwickshire 1986 Greater Manchester
1925 Warwickshire 1987 Greater Manchester
1926 Warwickshire 1988 Leicestershire
1927 Oxfordshire 1989 Leicestershire
1928 Warwickshire 1990 Greater Manchester
1929 Staffordshire 1991 Leicestershire
1930 Nottinghamshire 1992 Staffordshire
1931 Warwickshire 1993 Greater Manchester
1932 Staffordshire 1994 Warwickshire
1933 Warwickshire 1995 Staffordshire
1934 Staffordshire 1996 Warwickshire
1935 Warwickshire 1997 Greater Manchester
1936 Worcestershire 1998 Greater Manchester
1937 Leicestershire 1999 Greater Manchester
1938 Leicestershire 2000 Leicestershire
1939 Leicestershire 2001 Warwickshire
1940 War time suspension 2002 Greater Manchester
1941 War time suspension 2003 Greater Manchester
1942 War time suspension 2004 Greater Manchester
1943 War time suspension 2005 Warwicksire
1944 War time suspension 2006 Shropshire
1945 War time suspension 2007 Greater Manchester
1946 Warwickshire 2008 Greater Manchester
1947 Worcestershire 2009 Warwickshire
1948 Oxfordshire 2010 Staffordshire
1949 Oxfordshire 2011 Staffordshire
1950 Oxfordshire 2012 Staffordshire
1951 Oxfordshire 2013 Staffordshire
1952 Oxfordshire 2014 Nottinghamshire
1953 Oxfordshire 2015 Lincolnshire
1954 Leicestershire 2016 Nottinghamshire
1955 Warwickshire 2017 Lincolnshire & Worcestershire
1956 Warwickshire 2018 Lincolnshire
1957 Warwickshire 2019 Lincolnshire & Nottinghamshire
1958 Warwickshire 2020  
1959 Warwickshire 2021  
1960 Warwickshire 2022  


Sources

Years 1898 to 1957 from: JH van Meurs (1957). BCF Year Book 1957-8. Mackie, Warrington. [page 212]

Year 1958 from: British Chess Magazine (1958) [page 127]. Thanks to David Anderton, Staffs.

Years 1959-64 and 1966 from: British Chess Magazine (1964) [page 104]. Thanks to John Robinson, Leics.

Year 1969, 1970 John Robinson's records

Year 1965 from: B Reilly (1965). The Year Book of Chess 1965-1966. British Chess Magazine, St Leonards-on-Sea.

Years 1967 and 1968, Personal communication from Robert Richmond (Notts) reports that Andrew Walker's (playing for Notts in the 1960s and 70s) score book states 1972 was the first time since 1930 that Notts had won the Midlands title. Based on BCF Yearbook report that Notts and another Midlands county played in the BCF quarter-finals in these years (Information from David Anderton, Staffs) the other teams are presumed to have been Midlands champions in the years concerned.

Year 1971, Based on BCF Yearbook report that these two Midlands counties played in the BCF quarter-finals. Information from David Anderton, Staffs.

Year 1972 in Personal communication from Robert Richmond (Notts) based on content of articles by John Coggan (Nottingham Evening Post 25-9-72) and Peter Gibbs (Birmingham Mail 23-9-72 and 30-10-72).

Years 1973 - 1975 and 1977 - 1992 compiled by Neil Beasley, MCCU Events Controller for those years.

1972 Inferred from the information that Warks beat Notts in the BCF quarter final. Information from David Anderton based on BCF Yearbook.

Year 1976 inferred from the information that Warks lost to Lancs in the BCF quarter finals and the MCCU final for that year was betweem Warks and Greater Manchester (information from David Anderton, Staffs based on BCF Yearbook)

Years 1993 to 2019: MCCU website compiled by MCCU Webmasters, Neil Beasley, Sean Hewitt and Ray Collett