Wanstead II defeat Writtle

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Essex League Division I: Wanstead II 4½-3½ Writtle. At Wanstead. Lightning strikes twice. The last time Wanstead II were in Division I was the covid-19 truncated 2019-20 season. In that campaign Wanstead II won away to Writtle by 4½-3½. Wind on six years and “the bees” sting Writtle again; consecutive victories! Read Mark Murrell’s stirring report on the EL2 page. Wanstead II are now 4th of seven teams, above Writtle, Basildon and Upminster I. Essex League Division III: Wanstead IV […]

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Festive Xmas HBGP 2 – 23 December

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We shall have a Festive Xmas Handicap Blitz Grand Prix 2 on Tuesday 23 December – date moved from 1 December – fun and frolicks. Even if you are not playing all five Grand Prix events, you won’t want to miss this one. Same as always: core time 8 minutes on the clock, higher rated player gives time off his/her clock and donates to the lower rated player, according to rating group. Full details via link below. Entries will be […]

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Skippers update

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Update to Club Members of positions vacant. Two of the team captaincies left vacant at the AGM have now been filled: Essex League 4th team: Pete Meadows North Circular League 2nd team: Ian Hunnable That leaves two vacancies, Essex League 2nd and 3rd teams, which are currently being covered by Fixtures Secretary, Mark Murrell, in addition to EL 1st team captain, Tournament Secretary, Fixtures Secretary, Designated Safeguarding Lead and his involvement with the Junior section. While this is a great […]

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EKO Board Count double trouble

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The two Wanstead teams in the Essex Knockout – Wanstead A and Wanstead B – both reached the finals of, respectively, the Cup and the Plate. In the Finals, played on Tuesday 23 September, both avoided defeat, finishing 5-5 in each match, yet both had the anguish of losing on Board Count. True. Wanstead A reversed a 3½-1½ defeat in Round 1 against Basildon, Wanstead A winning Round 2 by the same score to reach 5-5, but in R2 Basildon […]

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London League NEW Fixture List

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The London League Fixture List saga is hopefully completed with publication of the re-drawn list. WW fixtures are completely re-drawn with new dates and a mostly new set of venues, now including the home venues of clubs with their own central London venues (some of which are changed from last season). We have now re-drawn our London Chess League page both the match cards and the venues list below that. The only thing that is unchanged is the list of […]

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London League Fixtures in flux

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The previously published London League Fixtures List has been withdrawn in a state of flux, to be re-cast. The list was due for modification as there were errors with some venues. Mark Murrell was assisting the League with entering the fixtures on the LMS and had received and was working on entering a new list, before being told he’d been sent the wrong ones! That’s the point at which Mark rightly removed the fixtures from the LMS, substituting them with […]

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London League Fixtures

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The London League Fixtures for our only LL team have been published and are added to the London League team page and the website Calendar, which has been extended by a month as we have a LL fixture in June 2026. The Calendar extension has been made in order to show this fixture as part of the 2025-26 London League season, but it will count for the 2026-27 David Wood and Roy Wagstaff trophies. The inclusion dates for the 2025-26 […]

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