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Summer rapid season round up

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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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Handicap Grand Prix 2021-22

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Announcing the Handicap Grand Prix for 2021-22 New members are in for another culture shock: the Handicap Blitz Grand Prix (“HBGP”). This is a five-event series, the points scored in each event aggregating for a season Grand Prix. Culture shock? you’ve heard of chess-boxing, well this is chess-arithmetic. Players are placed in rating groups according to their published rapid ratings (or Controller’s estimate). These rating groups are numbered zero (highest) to 6 (lowest). In each game, the difference between the […]

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Success amongst the Mayhem’s mayhem

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Played on Thursday 21 January there was unexpected success for the club’s first foray into the League of Mayhem’s invitational Team Battle blitz Arenas. With no club tournaments scheduled and a spare Thursday presenting during the second half of the League of Mayhem current season, skipper Peter Nickals entered a team into the league’s fourth Team Battle blitz (G5+3) for league participants, in the guise of our Lichess Arena social team. The previous two events had been won comfortably by […]

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‘A Team’ bounces back

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Another day, another competition. In the Semi-Final of the Lawrance Cup, Wanstead defeated the mighty Barnet Elizabethans by 5-3 over the two rounds. Artur inflicted a double defeat on Tryfon Gavriel, 210, Kyan secured a draw and a win against Roy Sagall, 196, Alin contributed a win and a draw against Philip Myers, all of which allowed David to have an off day. In the other Semi-Final, Wanstead 2 play Chingford 1 on 16 Jan, to set up another all-Wanstead […]

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Bees sting the A Team

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For the Final of the Essex Knockout, an all-Wanstead affair, Paul Barclay encountered difficulties assembling his team, with the top four of his registered players unavailable. Having arranged the date particularly for John Hodgson, it was particularly unfortunate that John went down with flu. No such problems for the B Team who were well-represented on all boards and enjoyed a grading advantage of an average 10 points a board. The A Team felt the full force of this advantage in […]

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News roundup…

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By way of catching up with a backlog… Mark Murrell’s Summer Activities report. Click HERE Opening Night Report by Philip Staniland. Click HERE Other items to follow… Hastings match Champions v The Rest Aix-en-Provence (Rapid matches available in the Teams menu)

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Aix-en-Provence

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In September a Club team of nine players is travelling again to Aix-en-Provence to compete with our friends there on the evening of Friday 20th September in a blitz tournament and then on the afternoon of Saturday 21st in a rapid tournament. There will be a meal together on Saturday evening and there will be opportunities to visit this university town in Provence which is particularly famed for its painter Paul Cézanne. If anybody else is thinking to join this […]

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