Report by Ben Harte On Tuesday 18th July 2023 IM Daniel Cawdery from South Africa visited our chess club. He played a simultaneous exhibition match against 24 of our junior players. All of our players had the Black pieces as is usual in a Simul. Each player had to wait for the IM to appear before making their move, but they had to have a move ready to play immediately he arrived at their board. This was a great opportunity for […]
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The British Championships start in Leicester on Thursday 20 July and run until Sunday 30 July. There is currently a “baker’s dozen” of Wanstead players who have entered, with still time for more to join them. See the BCC website (link below) for all the details and online entry. There are more events than ever with, in addition to the usual British and Junior Championships, the Major Open and the Weekeders and Weekday tournaments, no fewer than three Blitz events […]
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The Junior Chess Coaching Club turned out in force this evening for their return to Wanstead House. Taking advantage of the continued prevention of meetings of the main club with an expanded three hour session, managed bubbles enabled 23 junior players to display at the first opportunity their enthusiasm for the game under the direction once again of Ben Harte and Mark Murrell. Nearly all of the thriving junior online club made the transition at the first time of asking […]
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OTB Club Night 13 Oct The main event on the next socially-distanced Club night, 13 October, is a return to our first Ro6 engagement, one or more G10+5 ECF Rapid OTB rated tournament(s). Details on the Ro6 13 Oct page – Activities/OTB Club nights/Ro6 13 Oct – where those not in attendance can follow the pairings and results throughout the evening. Members attending may alternatively play individual Club Challenge Rated Game(s) at either a Standard or Rapid rate, or just […]
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From Mark Murrell: To coincide with the Junior Club’s foray into competitive OL rated chess in the J4NCL, two internal OL competitions have been launched for our coaching club’s 13 ECF Junior members, to build up their rapid match play. Details can be found on the new Junior Online page.
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Ben Harte reports that the Warriors won their first J4NCL match by a small margin. “Over-the-board” we only lost one game, but with one player missing we lost two points and suffered a penalty point. Still we won 4-3, so well done. Our next opposition is likely to be stronger; so when we get to team selection, to avoid any defaults players will have to set an alarm on their phones or their parent’s phone! I was impressed by the […]
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Mark Murrell reports that the Wanstead Warriors are now in the J4NCL, with their first match on Thursday, 1 Oct. Junior 4NCL matches are two games of G10+5 versus the same opponent. There was only room for one team. The squad will have eight junior ECF members (four board matches) so we will run an all-play-all ECF OL-rated event at the same time so that all the squad play regularly at the same time and make use of their memberships. […]
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