UK Tournament Result

The 3rd Cheshire Tournament was held on 5th October 1986.

It was moved from the January as the British Go Congress was organised by Brian Timmins at Crewe and Alsager College's Crewe Campus from 4th to 6th April 1986 with 86 players. (The Congress had also been at Alsager in 1975.)
At that, Matthew Macfadyen was the British Open winner and Brian Chandler won the Lightning.

The Cheshire Tournament itself was held, as before, at the Oakley Centre, part of the Victoria Community Centre in Crewe.
It had 34 entrants, with a good spread of grades including three 20 kyu players.
The Cheshire Goban trophy was won by Piers Shepperson (3 dan Nottingham).
Other prize winners were Paul Margetts (6 kyu CLGC) and Helen Sherwood (17 kyu).

After this event, Brian Timmins moved his tournament to become the Shrewsbury Tournament, starting in 1988.

Results not available.

Division winners:

1. Piers Shepperson (4d Nottingham)
2. James Bond (1d Reading)
3. Clive Hendrie (1k Bracknell)
4. William Streeten (5k North London)
5. Adam Shepherd (7k Coventry)
6. A Manson-Chubb (14k High Wycombe)
7. C Poole (16k Malvern)
8. W Kennedy (22k Unknown)
9. A Sullivan (28k Furze Platt)

106 players.

Qualifiers were Gerry Mills (1d Monmouth) and Dan Gilder (1k Nottingham).

Nottingham won the team prize.

The bar was at 2d. Handicap and no-komi games are in red.

The bar was at 2d. Handicap and no-komi games are in red.

The bar was at 2d. Handicap and no-komi games are in red.

The bar was at 3d. Handicap and no-komi games are in red.

The 2nd Black Bull was played at the Somers Arms, Leigh Sinton, near Malvern.

Winner was Richard Granville, 2nd Quentin Mills.
All on 4 or 3 wins won bottles of Black Bull Perry.

The 3rd Black Bull was played at the Somers Arms, Leigh Sinton, near Malvern.

Winner was Terry Barker, 2nd Richard Granville, 3rd Alistair Thompson.
All on 4 or 3 wins won bottles of Black Bull Perry. There is no player 47.

The 4th Black Bull was played at the Somers Arms, Leigh Sinton, near Malvern.

Winner was Tony Atkins, 2nd Toby Manning, 3rd Robert Bagot.
All on 4 or 3 wins won bottles of Black Bull Perry.

The bar was at 3d. Handicap and no-komi games are in red.