The previously published London League Fixtures List has been withdrawn in a state of flux, to be re-cast. The list was due for modification as there were errors with some venues. Mark Murrell was assisting the League with entering the fixtures on the LMS and had received and was working on entering a new list, before being told he’d been sent the wrong ones! That’s the point at which Mark rightly removed the fixtures from the LMS, substituting them with […]

Our erstwhile London League 1st team Captain, Larry Marden, sadly passed away two weeks ago. His funeral and celebration of his life will be held at the City of London Cemetery on Wednesday 6 August at 2pm. His wife, Caroline, has extended an open invitation and supplied full details, which are attached (link below). If you are planning to attend the 3pm gathering at the cemetery tea room can you please let me know on or before Tuesday 29 July so we […]

Keith Jones’ AGM report on the London League team’s season began “A somewhat disappointing season, which still has a chance of becoming a very disappointing season.” At that time, our London League team in Division 2 was sitting in 8th position of 11 teams, having finished its programme level on Match Points with Battersea 2 and ahead of them by just 2½ Game Points, but Battersea had the head-to-head advantage and had a match in hand. The only remaining fixtures […]

Nine Wanstead players entered the Southend Easter Chess Festival 17-21 April 2025. These included Ryan Colclough defending the Essex Minor Champion, with hopefuls Philip, Mark, Colin Li and Mary all going in the U1900 where that trophy is awarded. It was Mark who started off like a train, though he admitted he rode his luck in some early games. But the wins kept coming, 3/3, 4/4, 5/5, 6/6, by which time Mark had secured the Essex Minor Championship from Ryan, […]

Thursday 2 January 2025 The New Year at Wanstead & Woodford Chess Club started with a bang with a breath-taking evening of speed chess, embracing two games of Rapid at G10+5 in the all-Wanstead Finchley Cup semi-final (WW2 v WW3) followed by a searingly hot Blitz of 9 rounds at G3+2, all squeezed into a throbbing three hours; firworks a-plenty! Wanstead 3 emerged 6½-5½ victors over Wanstead 2 and David Spearman won the Blitz with an imperious 8½/9. See the […]

A Festive club night added to the 2025 calendar to launch the New Year and the reopening of Wanstead House after the festive closure. THURSDAY 2 JAN 2025,  7.30 pm Members are invited to play in: A) the Finchley Cup rapid semi final FC2 v FC3 at 7.30 (G20/10). 16 players mimimum. If there is sufficient interest from the Lawrance Cup squad some of you may participate with them in a team challenge either at G20/10 or 2 x G10/5 B) at […]

Entries are now open for the Southend Easter Chess Festival 2025 which takes place from 17-21 April 2025, at Southend Adult Community College, Ambleside Drive, Southend-on-Sea, SS1 2UN. The Festival embraces the 6-Round Rapid on Thursday 17 April, followed by the 7-Round Congress from Friday 18 April to Monday 21 April. Full details for the Rapid and the Congress are given on the Festival website southendcongress.org where the Entry Form (pdf) can be downloaded and Online Entry is available. Southend […]