BUCA Team Championship Winners
Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 6:19 pm
On Saturday at the 4NCL, the Director of Home Chess passed on the original trophy for the BUCA Team Championship, dating back to 1947.
I then left it in Conference Room 17 on the Monday at home time, because I'm an idiot.
However, I have been reacquainted with the trophy, so all is well and good. Here are the teams that won it. It would be useful if those who know such things can provide the names of people who played in these teams, purely for interest's sake. I don't have a 60-year back catalogue of CHESS or BCM; I wasn't even alive for most of those years... Anyone with such a wealth of information who has the time to check these things would be appreciated.
Anyway, here are the winners, with the cumulative total of the number of times they've won in square brackets.
1947 Leeds
1948 Oxford
1949 Manchester
1950 Oxford [2]
1951 Oxford [3]
1952 Durham, Oxford [4]
1953 Birmingham
1954 Cambridge
1955 There's a space where a plaque should be, but there's no evidence that there has ever been a plaque here (i.e. there's no holes for screws) - did an event take place?
1956 Cambridge [2]
1957 London
1958 Cambridge [3], Glasgow, London [2]
1959 Oxford [5]
1960 London [3]
1961 Cambridge [4]
1962 Cambridge [5]
1963 London [4]
1964 Oxford [6]
1965 London [5]
1966 Cambridge [6]
1967 London [6]
1968 Oxford [7]
1969 Cambridge [7]
1970 London [7]
1971 Cambridge [8]
1972 Cambridge [9]
1973 Cambridge [10]
1974 Cambridge [11]
1975 London [8]
1976 Glasgow [2]
1977 Sheffield
1978 Leeds [2]
1979 London [9]
1980 Edinburgh
1981 Leeds [3]
1982 Oxford [8] (How did Oxford manage to go 14 years without winning it?!)
1983 Cambridge [12]
1984 Oxford [9]
1985 Oxford [10]
1986 London [10]
1987 Leeds [4]
1988 Cambridge [13]
1989 No space where a plaque should be; did an event happen this year?
1990 Cambridge [14]
1991 Nottingham
Then that's it. I know Nottingham was the last one of the old BUCA, so that makes sense. (At least, previous discussions on here have led to people saying they don't really know what happened after Nottingham won it.)
I can piece together some old winners from this. Did anything happen inbetween?
2001 Cambridge [15]
2002 Warwick
2003 Oxford [11]
2004 Oxford [12]
2007 Sheffield [2]
2008 I'm sure some sort of rapidplay event was held at Nottingham, with 8 teams attending?
And then, in the modern era:
2010 Bath
2011 Oxford [13]
So again, if people can help:
(1) Can anyone provide the names of the players in those teams? I imagine CHESSes might have that info in the BH Wood era. The names of the players in the teams are on the new trophy!
(2) Did anything happen between 1992 and 2010? Obviously something did, but I can't find any evidence of it.
(3) Any other information would be good too. (E.g. where the event was held; number of teams entering)
These will go on the BUCA website in due course.
I then left it in Conference Room 17 on the Monday at home time, because I'm an idiot.
However, I have been reacquainted with the trophy, so all is well and good. Here are the teams that won it. It would be useful if those who know such things can provide the names of people who played in these teams, purely for interest's sake. I don't have a 60-year back catalogue of CHESS or BCM; I wasn't even alive for most of those years... Anyone with such a wealth of information who has the time to check these things would be appreciated.
Anyway, here are the winners, with the cumulative total of the number of times they've won in square brackets.
1947 Leeds
1948 Oxford
1949 Manchester
1950 Oxford [2]
1951 Oxford [3]
1952 Durham, Oxford [4]
1953 Birmingham
1954 Cambridge
1955 There's a space where a plaque should be, but there's no evidence that there has ever been a plaque here (i.e. there's no holes for screws) - did an event take place?
1956 Cambridge [2]
1957 London
1958 Cambridge [3], Glasgow, London [2]
1959 Oxford [5]
1960 London [3]
1961 Cambridge [4]
1962 Cambridge [5]
1963 London [4]
1964 Oxford [6]
1965 London [5]
1966 Cambridge [6]
1967 London [6]
1968 Oxford [7]
1969 Cambridge [7]
1970 London [7]
1971 Cambridge [8]
1972 Cambridge [9]
1973 Cambridge [10]
1974 Cambridge [11]
1975 London [8]
1976 Glasgow [2]
1977 Sheffield
1978 Leeds [2]
1979 London [9]
1980 Edinburgh
1981 Leeds [3]
1982 Oxford [8] (How did Oxford manage to go 14 years without winning it?!)
1983 Cambridge [12]
1984 Oxford [9]
1985 Oxford [10]
1986 London [10]
1987 Leeds [4]
1988 Cambridge [13]
1989 No space where a plaque should be; did an event happen this year?
1990 Cambridge [14]
1991 Nottingham
Then that's it. I know Nottingham was the last one of the old BUCA, so that makes sense. (At least, previous discussions on here have led to people saying they don't really know what happened after Nottingham won it.)
I can piece together some old winners from this. Did anything happen inbetween?
2001 Cambridge [15]
2002 Warwick
2003 Oxford [11]
2004 Oxford [12]
2007 Sheffield [2]
2008 I'm sure some sort of rapidplay event was held at Nottingham, with 8 teams attending?
And then, in the modern era:
2010 Bath
2011 Oxford [13]
So again, if people can help:
(1) Can anyone provide the names of the players in those teams? I imagine CHESSes might have that info in the BH Wood era. The names of the players in the teams are on the new trophy!
(2) Did anything happen between 1992 and 2010? Obviously something did, but I can't find any evidence of it.
(3) Any other information would be good too. (E.g. where the event was held; number of teams entering)
These will go on the BUCA website in due course.