Central London League

Team Captain: Michael Buckingham

The CLL is a new departure for the Club. It was set up several years ago as an alternative to the London Chess League for those who didn’t like the default format being multi-session with adjournment, notwithstanding that one-session could be had by agreement (and is now the default format).

We were already considering alternatives to the London League, which had become very expensive to play in, when the Covid pandemic brought matters to an abrupt halt. Now it turns out that the CLL is the first of “our” leagues to resume.

The Club’s team is playing in Division 2 and teams are of five boards. Matches are played at a venue in Pimlico, described in pictures by Peter Nickals: CLL venue

League tables

nDate Opponents Result Score
Thu 09-Sep-21 West London Won 3½-1½
Thu 07-Oct-21 Pimlico 3 Lost 1½-3½
Thu 28-Oct-21 Battersea 3 Won 1-4
Thu 11-Nov-21 HMC 2 Lost ½-4½
Thu 25-Nov-21 Railsport Drew 2½-2½
Thu 09-Dec-21 HMC 3 Lost 0-5
Thu 13-Jan-22 West London    
Thu 27-Jan-22 Battersea 3    
Thu 10-Feb-22 HMC 2    
Thu 24-Feb-22 Railsport    
Thu 17-Mar-22 Pimlico 3    
Thu 05-May-22 HMC 3    

League tables

Played 9 September 2021

  Wanstead v West London
1 Nickals, Peter (1817)  (W) 0-1 Campbell, Russ (1870)  (B)
2 Raikundalia, Krishna (1590)  ½-½ Gill, Gursharanjit (1668) 
3 Buckingham, Michael J (1590)  1-0 Regan, J (1510) 
4 Senan, Tu (1474)  1-0 Winter, Stuart (1428) 
5 Duffy, Laurence (1617)  1-0 Laurencin, Joseph (1015) 
  Average rating 1618 3½-1½ Average rating 1498

The jubilant squad. (Not in picture: Laurence Duffy – presume behind the camera)

Played 7 October 2021

  Pimlico 3 v Wanstead
1 Kabir Pandit u ½-½ Matthias Lataille 1698
2 Robert Stern 1948 1-0 Jay Sharman 1607
3 Matthew JD Baker 1912 1-0 Krishna Raikundalia 1585
4 Colm O’Shea 1885 0-1 Tu Senan 1523
5 Hugh Fenwick 1866 1-0 Laurence Duffy 1639
  Average rating 1610 3½-1½ Average rating 1903

Played 28 October 2021

  Battersea 3 v Wanstead
1 Nguyen, Tung  – 0-1 McCarron, Peter DJ 1751 
2 Hunt, Arnold 1570  0-1 Lataille, Matthias 1698 
3 Hutchence, Greg 1548  0-1 Sharman, Jay 1607 
4 Farahmandpour, Ehsan 1793  1-0 Senan, Tu 1523 
5 Flaccavento, Marco 1023  0-1 Raikundalia, Krishna 1585 
  Average: 1484 1-4 Average: 1633

Played 11 November 2021

  HMC 2
v Wanstead
1 Martin Benjamin 2067 1-0 Istvan Karacsony 1800
2 John Bennett 2065 1-0 Peter McCarron 1754
3 Jules Morrison 2019 1-0 Jay Sharman 1615
4 Bertie Barlow 2006 ½-½ Jay Sharman 1615
5 Disu Kayode 1915 1-0 Krishna Raikundalia 1590
  Average: 2014 4½-½ Average: 1671

Outgunned by an average of 341 points a board (equal to 175 v 130).

HMC stands for Honorary Member’s Club, which was a team in the Commercial League. To find the opposition replete with four of the five players over 2000 (2000=173 in old figures and 2050=180) is tough, so well done Jay in saving the whitewash.

Played 25 November 2021

  Railsport v Wanstead
1 Lunn, Matt (2073)  0-1 McCarron, Peter DJ (1754) 
2 Bass, John W (1976)  1-0 Rawlings, David J (1714) 
3 Jackson, Paul G (1797)  ½-½ Sharman, Jay (1615) 
4 Eldridge, Peter W (1774)  1-0 Duffy, Laurence (1623) 
5 Farnad, Safiullah (1666)  0-1 Buckingham, Michael (1613) 
  Average 1857 2½-2½ Average 1664

Played 9 December 2021

  HMC 3
v Wanstead
1 Jaszkiwskyj, Peter (1962)  1-0 McCarron, Peter DJ (1791) 
2 Berkley, Stephen (1713)  1-0 Lataille, Matthias (1729) 
3 Wickham, Michael (1667)  1-0 Rawlings, David J (1701) 
4 Rogers, David M (1605)  1-0 Senan, Tu (1559) 
5 Nazaroglu, Dogancan ()  1-0 Raikundalia, Krishna (1584) 
  Average: 1737 5-0 Average: 1673

To be played 13 January 2022

  West London
v Wanstead
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To be played 27 January 2022

  Wanstead v Battersea 3
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To be played 10 February 2022

  Wanstead v HMC 2
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To be played 24 February 2022

  Wanstead v Railsport
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To be played 27 March 2022

  Wanstead v Pimlico 3
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To be played 5 May 2022

  Wanstead v HMC 3
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nPlayer P W D L Pts %
Tu Senan 3 2 0 1 2 66.67
Matthias Lataille 3 1 1 1 50.00
Jay Sharman 3 1 1 1 50.00
Krishna Raikundalia 4 1 1 2 37.50
Michael Buckingham 1 1 0 0 1 100.00
Peter McCarron 2 1 0 1 1 50.00
Laurence Duffy 2 1 0 1 1 50.00
Peter Nickals 1 0 0 1 0 0.00
Istvan Karacsony 1 0 0 1 0 0.00