As over-the-board chess continued to recover after the restrictions of the pandemic, the Club entered the London League, the Central London League, the Essex League. In addition, the Club engaged in some friendly fixtures.
The London League had problems of costing for games played at the Citadine’s Hotel in Holborn, which was extremely expensive to hire and the cramped playing conditions were not conducive for the required covid spacial considerations. A solution was found by the much less expensive “Mind Sports” venue in Hammersmith. The League for the first time in its existence was split gegraphically, east and west and the cost for Clubs playing in each venue (by choice) was ameliorated by the west partially subsidising the east. With the spread of fixtures over the two venues, conditions at Citadines were improved by the reduction of fixtures played each match night, allowing better “spacing of tables “social distancing”.
The returning Essex League was limited to two Divisions and the Minor League, with certain relaxtion of the rules e.g. with regard to penalties for defaults, etc.
However, the North Circular League did not function in 2021-22, except for the playing of the 2019-20 KO Finals (Rapid games), but held a full summer programme in 2022.
In each of the Leagues we entered multiple teams and the results pages are linked below.
In addition to match cards, the player stats for each team are included and the Aggregate stats (David Wood Memorial Trophy) over all teams are available further down this page.
London League East (Citadines Hotel, Holborn)
Central London League (Pimlico)
Friendly Fixtures
– October Friendlies (illustrated report by Mark Murrell)
Aggregate Statistics
The David Wood Memorial Trophy (“DWMT”) is awarded to the member recording the highest points total over all matches (cut-off date 31 May 2022). For 2021-22 the winner was Mark Murrell with 10/13 an excellent success rate of 77%. DWMT Conditions
| Aggregates | P | W | D | L | Pts | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Murrell 1861 | 13 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 76.92 |
| Ashley Freeman 1998 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 69.23 |
| Philip Staniland 1851 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 66.67 |
| Terry Whitton 1924 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 47.06 |
| Peter McCarron 1751 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 47.06 |
| Andrew Swales 1765 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 7½ | 75.00 |
| Mark Le Gassicke 1368 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 70.00 |
| Nigel White 1443 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 5½ | 68.75 |
| Matthias Lataille 1681 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5½ | 55.00 |
| Michael Wilson 1668 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 100.00 |
| Jay Sharman 1607 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 62.50 |
| Peter Nickals 1832 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 41.67 |
| Istvan Karacsony 1760 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 4½ | 64.29 |
| Tu Senan 1474 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 4½ | 45.00 |
| John Cawdery 2095 | 14 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 4½ | 32.14 |
| Ian Hunnable 1976 | 16 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 4½ | 28.13 |
| John Hodgson 2103 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 80.00 |
| Paul Barclay 1803 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 57.14 |
| Krishna Raikundalia 1623 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 3½ | 38.89 |
| Steve Rix 2028 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3½ | 35.00 |
| Emmett Clarke 1546 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 100.00 |
| Michael Buckingham 1590 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 60.00 |
| Vittorio Nigrelli 0000 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 50.00 |
| Huw Jacob 1495 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2½ | 62.50 |
| David Rawlings 1716 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2½ | 50.00 |
| David Smith 1637 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2½ | 41.67 |
| Robert Parker 1750e | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2½ | 41.67 |
| Inder-Veer Singh 1728 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 100.00 |
| Neil Davies 1538 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 100.00 |
| Frank Williams 1015 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 100.00 |
| Keith Jones 1840 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 28.57 |
| Laurence Duffy 1639 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 28.57 |
| Ray Chu 1125 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1½ | 75.00 |
| John Jestico 1471 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1½ | 50.00 |
| Ivan Hutcheson 1503 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1½ | 37.50 |
| John Keehner 1668 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 100.00 |
| Vladimir Parols 1985 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 100.00 |
| Davide Segat 1529 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 100.00 |
| Wilder Quin 1152 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 100.00 |
| Leo Scerri 979 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 100.00 |
| Voldi Gailans 1297 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 100.00 |
| Ben Harte 1735 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 50.00 |
| Thomas Lacy 1400 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 50.00 |
| Ryan Colclough 1513 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 50.00 |
| Paul Read 1293 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 50.00 |
| Joe Rosenberg 1554 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ½ | 25.00 |
| Terry Skippen 1533 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ½ | 25.00 |
| David Brittain 0000 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Alfie Green 1607 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Jay Demetriou 1506 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Punit Todi 1442 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Catarina Carvalho 1408 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Jean Mara 1110 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Fin O’Regan 1102 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Tony Meek 0000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Cole Walsh 1028 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Alex Collyer 1768 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Adarsh Bedi 1334 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Walkover | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 100.00 |
| 59 Players | 311 | 134 | 60 | 117 | 164 | 52.73% |