The Wanstead Festival, which was to have taken place on Sun 18 September, has been postponed to Sunday 2 October 2022. Those members who had pledged support to Paul Barclay for the original date, please confirm to Paul your availability for the new date. The revised “September programme” is: Tue 13 Sep Summer League Play-off Final Inbetweeners 3 + 2 rated blitz Start of U1650 Ladder Tue 20 Sep Essex Knockout Final – Wanstead A v Barking A […]
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At the club’s recent Annual General Meeting the members decided to: adopt a restructured Constitution, updated to incorporate virtual meetings and regulatory requirements: Constitution and By-Laws; repeat and extend this year’s programme of activities (jncluding the 2022 summer programme) adding, subject to captains being found, additional teams in the Essex and Central London leagues as well as the restoration of teams in the North Circular League (should it be resurrected) and such other internal events at the discretion of the […]
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The Programme of activities for the 2021-22 Season is published. You will find it under the Activities menu in main navigation above: – Activities/Activities 2021-22…/2021-22 Programme – or from the link below. Highlighted activity is the 7-Round Club Championship – Round 1, 12 October. An email has gone to all members: to enter the Club Championship reply to that email. We also have our “first of the month” speed events – Lightning, Blitz, Rapid and the Handicap Blitz Grand Prix […]
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All but one of the Leagues in which we play are gearing up to return to over-the-board competition and very soon we shall need to indicate our entry to these Leagues. We have willing Captains, we now need to know urgently how many willing players we have. So this is a call to Members to sign up to League match chess: please visit the League match sign up page in the main menu above (or link below), read the information […]
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From 19 July, HM Government’s Roadmap out of Lockdown moves to Step 4. With this, most of the legal requirements for Covid precautions are lifted. But this only relaxes the legal requirements; Covid has not gone away, far from it and the effect to Step 4 is to move from State control to personal responsibility. The Government’s stance now is to give guidance which they “expect and recommend” responsible people to observe, which you can find here: link – HMG […]
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Help prevent the spread Wanstead House has issued updated guidance to its groups for the summer under Step 4 – link below. This applies from Tuesday 20 July to the common parts of the House and Hall that are used by everyone. Compliance is a condition of our hire and continued use of the House. This includes: sanitise hands on entry and exit; wearing a face covering moving through the House and the foyer of the Hall and in the […]
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As a follow on to the previous article, we have now added the Summer Schedule to the main Activities menu (above). Hover your pointer over (or tap on) Activities in the main menu above, then select the top item 2021 Summer OTB to get the schedule of activities in a nutshell. Downloading the Summer at WWCC document is still a good way of retaining this schedule (it is p3) together with the other important information you need for the Summer, […]
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