Great news! Confirmed, we have escaped relegation once again! This time not of our making, but the unthinkable event that perennial London League Champions, Wood Green, have withdrawn from Division 1. Their sponsor has called it a day. This meant a vacancy to fill in Division 1, which as LL Rules require, this is filled by promotion, so three teams were promoted from Division 2 and only one team relegated; as we were second from bottom, we remain in Division […]
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From Monday 6th July 2026 a new type of club will meet weekly for primarily social chess for Wanstead & Woodford members. All lower and higher rated members more than welcome. Manor room of Wanstead House. At 1.30pm until 4.30pm entry fee £3.00 to cover the cost of the room.
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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 […]
Open this post... 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 […]
Open this post... 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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