This remarkable position occurred in actual play. Imagine you have this position in a match game; you have White and you have to find your next move, what will you play? Your clock is ticking and, by the way, you have less than five minutes plus 10 second increments. Black has around the same, but his clock is not ticking. If you don’t want to play the “clock game” just analyse the position and find White’s best move, then see […]
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Mark Murrell draws together the details of an active and successful summer: Synopsis Lawrance Cup retained (on tie break) Summer League Champions (after a play-off) Essex Knockout Champions (regained from Wanstead 2!) Finchley Cup runners up (Barking had to win something !) Ashley Freeman leads the John Philpott Trophy (NCCL Cups & Rapid Championship to come) 47 members in action (including 13 juniors) in 446 appearances !! The summer of 2022 was one of the most keenly contested rapid seasons […]
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Having defeated Writtle away in the Semi-Final, the Wanstead A team had one more stern test to retain the Sims Cup for the Essex Summer Rapid Knockout: another showdown with Barking A. Wanstead has held the Sims Cup since 2019, while the Knockout was sidelined by Covid lockdowns. Wanstead A has had to wait a long time to erase the memory of 2019 when it was Wanstead B team that won the all-Wanstead Final that year. Congratulations to Skipper Ashley […]
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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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The London League Fixtures are published. Two Wanstead teams have been entered, the first team in Division 2 and the second team in the Minor Division. The first fixture for each is on 6 October 2022 and both are travelling west, to the Mind Sports Centre and both play opposition from Wimbledon. The first team has two fixtures at Mind Sports, five fixtures at St. Margaret’s House, Bethnal Green and three fixtures at opponents’ venues in central London; 10 in […]
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Had that been the result in 1066, England might be a very different place, particularly where architecture is concerned. But their victory this time was not over Norman invaders but a friendly foe from Wanstead; and Hastings’ winning score was by the odd point, at 8-7. WW did well at the top (2½-½) and Boards 9-15 (4½-2½), but Hastings had a swathe of five wins over Boards 4-8 which edged the verdict. Board-by-board details via the link below. Now David […]
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The new season got underway on Saturday, 3 September, with the return of our annual match away day at Hastings. Result: Hastings 8-7 Wanstead Details to follow. The programme for the rest of the month is given below: Tue 06 Sep Opening Night Tandem Simul Tue 13 Sep Summer League Play-off Final Inbetweeners 3 + 2 rated blitz Start of U1650 Ladder Sun 18 Sep WWCC at the Wanstead Festival Now 2 October 2022 Chess on the […]
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