Central London League 2025-26

Having won Division 3 last season, the Club has accepted an invitation of promotion to Division 2 for 2025-26. The Club started life in the Central London League in Division 2, so this is a welcome return. In addition, the Club will again enter Division 4.

In the tabbed display below, select the team tab along the top, then the individual matches for that team down the left.

Team Captains:

1st Team – Matthias Lataille

2nd Team – Krishna Raikundalia

To contact either Matthias or Krishna use the Contact Form from the main menu above and select ‘Cent. London League 1st Team Captain’ or ‘…2nd Team Captain’ from the dropdown as the person to contact.

Venue – all matches played at: Churchill Gardens Tenants Association, Glasgow Terrace, Pimlico, London SW1V 3AL
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Match cards

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Division 2
 Date Result Home Team Score Away Team
Thu 18 Sep 2025 Drew Wanstead 1 2½–2½ Railsport
Thu 25 Sep 2025 Drew Battersea2 2½–2½ Wanstead 1
Thu 16 Oct 2025   Battersea 1 Wanstead 1
Thu 30 Oct 2025   Pimlico 3 Wanstead 1
Thu 27 Nov 2025   Wanstead 1 Hammersmith 2
Thu 18 Dec 2025   Wanstead 1 Battersea 1
Thu 15 Jan 2026   Hammersmith 2 Wanstead 1
Thu 29 Jan 2026   Railsport Wanstead 1
Thu 12 Feb 2026   Hammersmith 1 Wanstead 1
Thu 5 Mar 2026   Wanstead 1 Battersea 2
Thu 9 Apr 2026   Wanstead 1 Hammersmith 1
Thu 14 May 2026   Wanstead 1 Pimlico 3

Home and Away doesn’t mean a lot in this League; the games are played at a central venue in Pimlico.

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Player Stats
 Central London Lge D2 at 18 Sep 2025 Rtg P W D L Pts %
David Spearman 2072 1 1 0 0 1 100.00
Peter Nickals 1711 1 0 1 0 ½ 50.00
Matthias Lataille 1824 1 0 1 0 ½ 50.00
John Hodgson 2036 1 0 1 0 ½ 50.00
Ian Hunnable 1833 1 0 0 1 0 0.00
               
 5 Players   5 1 3 1 50.00
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Played on Thursday, 18 September 2025, at Pimlico
  Wanstead 1 v Railsport
1 Spearman, David (2072) (W) 1d0 Default (Jeff Boardman – 2052) (B)
2 Hodgson, John H (2036) ½-½ Taylor, Will (2036)
3 Hunnable, Ian D (1833) 0-1 Lee, Anthony KH (1985)
4 Lataille, Matthias (1824) ½-½ Bass, John W (1916)
5 Nickals, Peter (1711) ½-½ Eldridge, Peter W (1790)
  Average: 1895 2½-2½ Average: 1956 (5 boards)
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Played on Thursday, 25 September 2025, at Pimlico
  Battersea 2 v Wanstead 1
1 Farrand, Tom (2151) (B) 1-0 Spearman, David (2072) (W)
2 Ashby, Tony (2010) 0-1 Hodgson, John H (2036)
3 MacNeil, Elliott CM (1987) ½-½ Murrell, Mark RA (1860)
4 Abouchakra, Ibrahim (1742) 0-1 Hunnable, Ian D (1833)
5 Meric, Caglar (1743) 1-0 Lataille, Matthias (1824)
  Average: 1927 2½-2½ Average: 1925

Battersea 2 go by the team name of Battersea Galacticos in the league table, but were given as Batterasea 2 in the original fixtures list and it fits better in this tab layout, so we shall stick with that name. They beat Battersea 1 in the first match.

Good result. Only two points between the teams on ratings. Shared top two and bottom two with Mark’s great result a piece down in the ending against a 1987 to save the match. Mark comments: “Finishing a piece down too – K v K+N. I was expecting B & N v K on increments but an opponent’s blunder led in sequence to the exchange of the B for my active N in the capture of Black’s last pawn. I had given up the B earlier for activity and complications rather than give my opponent an ending that was going to play itself. It was the third game to finish just before David, leaving boards 2 and 6 the last games in the room.”

Our other win, from John Hodgson, involved a long R & P ending, which John thought was only a draw despite his having an extra pawn. John stopped scoring at 60 moves when his clock time dipped below five minutes, but thinks they could have played 100 moves; he got the verdict in the end. A bit of trivia: we won the toss by default (Battersea captain had not appeared by the appropriate time) so we were White on odds; we scored ½/3 with White and 2/2 with Black.

Our two wins were the first and last games to finish; while Mark’s game was an important score, we were one down at 2½-1½ until John managed to scrape a win in his “drawn” R & P ending, which kept the organisers up late! Both our wins are included in the game board below.

Games

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To be Played on Thursday, 16 October 2025 at Pimlico
  Battersea 1 v Wanstead 1
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To be Played on Thursday, 30 October 2025, at Pimlico
  Pimlico 3 v Wanstead 1
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To be Played on Thursday, 27 November 2025, at Pimlico
  Wanstead 1 v Hammersmith 2
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To be Played on Thursday, 18 December 2025, at Pimlico
  Wanstead 1 v Battersea 1
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To be Played on Thursday, 15 January 2026, at Pimlico
  Hammersmith 2 v Wanstead 1
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To be Played on Thursday, 29 January 2026, at Pimlico
  Railsport v Wanstead 1
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To be Played on Thursday, 12 February 2026, at Pimlico
  Hammersmith 1 v Wanstead 1
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To be Played on Thursday, 5 March 2026, at Pimlico
  Wanstead 1 v Battersea 2
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To be Played on Thursday, 9 April 2026, at Pimlico
  Wanstead 1 v Hammersmith 1
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To be Played on Thursday, 14 May 2026, at Pimlico
  Wanstead 1 v Pimlico 3
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Division 4
 Date Result Home Team Score Away Team
Thu 9 Oct 2025   Hackney 2 Wanstead 2
Thu 23 Oct 2025   Pimlico4 Wanstead 2
Thu 13 Nov 2025   Streatham 3 Wanstead 2
Thu 20 Nov 2025   Wanstead 2 Hammersmith 3
Thu 4 Dec 2025   Wanstead 2 Kings Head 2
Thu 29 Jan 2026   Wanstead 2 Streatham 3
Thu 5 Feb 2026   Kings Head 2 Wanstead 2
Thu 26 Feb 2026   Wanstead 2 Pimlico4
Thu 23 Apr 2026   Hammersmith 3 Wanstead 2
Thu 7 May 2026   Wanstead 2 Hackney 2
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Division 4

CL2 Player Stats will appear here…

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To be Played on Thursday, 9 October 2025, at Pimlico
  Hackney 2 v Wanstead 2
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To be Played on Thursday, 23 October 2025, at Pimlico
  Pimlico 4 v Wanstead 2
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To be Played on Thursday, 13 November 2025, at Pimlico
  Streatham 3 v Wanstead 2
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To be Played on Thursday, 20 November 2025, at Pimlico
  Wanstead 2 v Hammersmith 3
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To be Played on Thursday, 4 December 2025, at Pimlico
  Wanstead 2 v Kings Head 2
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To be Played on Thursday, 29 January 2026, at Pimlico
  Wanstead 2 v Streatham 3
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To be Played on Thursday, 5 February 2026, at Pimlico
  Kings Head 2 v Wanstead 2
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To be Played on Thursday, 26 February 2026, at Pimlico
  Wanstead 2 v Pimlico 4
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To be Played on Thursday, 23 April 2026, at Pimlico
  Hammersmith 3 v Wanstead 2
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To be Played on Thursday, 7 May 2026, at Pimlico
  Wanstead 2 v Hackney 2
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