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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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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The previously published London League Fixtures List has been withdrawn in a state of flux, to be re-cast.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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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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W&WCC Junior Coaching dates for 2025-26 are published on the Junior Coaching page and given below for ease of reference.. Autumn 2025Tuesdays 16 September 2025 to 21October 2025HALF-TERMTuesdays 4 November 2025 to 9 December 2025 Spring 2026Tuesdays 6 January 2026 to 10 February 2026HALF-TERMTuesdays 24 February 2026 to 24 March 2026 Summer 2026Tuesdays 14 April 2026 to 19 May 2026HALF-TERMTuesdays 2 June 2026 to 14 July 2026 Link Junior Coaching Home
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Fixtures for the Central London League are published. They have been out for a little while, but have now been added to the Club website, on the CLL team page and the Calendar – see links below. The first team won Division 3 last season and have been given promotion to Division 2, where they played on first entering the Central London League. Division 1 is exceedingly strong, so teams relegated to Division 2 will nonetheless be very strong. Our […]
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Congratualtions to Mary Cawdery on her triple crown at the British Championships heading a success story for Essex. Mary achieved Girls Champion status in the U10 Blitz, the U10 Rapid, capping a successful British as U10 Girls Champion (at standard play), finishing =3rd in the process. Here is one of her games, perhaps the most critical of her seven games in the U10:
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