A few simple rules ... limitless possibilities

Full results not available.

Rapid-play five rounds.

69 players.

Winner: Matthew Macfaden (6d Leamington) Runner up in top group: Simon Shiu (3 dan Teesside)

Group winners:

Group 1. Toby Manning and Alan Thornton (2 dan)
Group 2. Brian Ellis (1 dan)
Group 3. Matthew Holton and Tony Warburton (1 kyu)
Group 4. Paul Barnard (1 kyu)
Group 5. Martin Harvey (2 kyu)
Group 6. John Lowe (4 kyu)
Group 7. Jim Edwards (8 kyu)
Group 8. Nick Fortescue (8 kyu)
Group 9. Paul Clarke (12 kyu)
Group 10. Daniel Dowling (18 kyu).

The best team were the Leamington Beards and Jo Hampton won the 9x9.

Full results not available.

Number of players: 48.

Winner: J-Y. Lee (5 dan Nottingham/Korea) with 4/4.

With 3.5 Andy Cornah (2 kyu Sheffield)

With 3/4:
Richard Granville (3 dan Malvern)
Sam Perlo-Freeman (1 kyu Lyme Regis)
Clive Wright (3 kyu Nottingham)
Ian Docherty (9 kyu)
Tim Roberts (10 kyu Sheffield)
Mark Skinner (11 kyu Nottingham)
R. Taillefer (13 kyu Cambridge)
D. Gilmore (15 kyu)
Mark Gibbs (20 kyu Nottingham)
R. Thearle (20 kyu)

The Qualifiers were Mark Lorrimer-Roberts (1 dan) and Andy Cornah (2 kyu).

Best team was Notts Forest.

Pictures

Held in Wanstead to replace the Oxford Tournament.

The bar was at 4d. Handicap and no-komi games are in red.

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

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

The bar was at 3d. Handicap and no-komi games are in red.
Full results only available to 4k.

Results reconstructed. Top five only in rank order.

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.