EKO Board Count double trouble

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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London League NEW Fixture List

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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London League Fixtures

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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Central London League Fixtures

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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Super Thursday

NC1 had already retained NCCL A with their 5½-½ win over Ilford on 10 April. Now have only a 100% record to chase. From Mark Murrell, the happenings of Thursday, 9 May: We have some catching up to do with League results and stats, but currently have this in hand. Look back soon, with progress. Update: CL2, NC2 and NC3 still to do, then Aggregates. Links: Essex League (WW) | Essex League on LMS | Central London Lge Div 4

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EL3 v Southend 1 Away, postponed

Match: Friday 2 February, Southend 1 v W&W 3 – Essex League Division II postponedThere are scheduled train strikes across c2c and Greater Anglia on Friday 2 February; part of a week-long action by Aslef. Appropriately, we agreed with Southend that if the strikes were not called off by Friday 26 January, the match would be moved to Friday 8 March. This agreement has now been actioned and the above match has been postponed to Friday 8 March. For the […]

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Match postponed

The opening London League fixture against Streatham 2, which was to have been played on Weds 11 October, has been postponed due to unavilability of the venue. New date yet to be announced. Link: London League page

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