Having emerged from the AGM in June with absolutely no County teams personnel at all, the ECA is happy to announce that the four rating-limited teams entered for the County Championships now have team captains and, what’s more, one deptuty team captain. Team Captains for 2023-24U2050 – Michael Spurr; Deputy Captain, James Robinson;U1850 – Mark […]
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Wanstead complete Cup and Plate double Played 19 September 2023, at Wanstead Board WANSTEAD A R1 R2 BARKING A 1 Hodgson, John H 2118 (W, B) 1-0 ½-½ Goldberg, Jeff A 2146 (B, W) 2 Gill, Oliver 2086 1-0 1-0 Ismailov, Roman 2107 3 Spearman, David 2034 1-0 ½-½ Jaszkiwskyj, Peter 1958 4 Cawdery, John […]
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Played 6 September 2023, at Loughton Board Loughton R1 R2 Wanstead B 1 Bowmer, Kevin 2031 (W, B) ½-½ 0-1 Rix, Steven JL 2049 (B, W) 2 Stirling, William J 1892 0-1 1-0 Bancroft, Paul 1989 3 Middleton, Stephen 1868 ½-½ 0-1 Whitton, Terry D 1924 4 Horan, George 1819 0-1 ½-½ Staniland, Philip 1877 […]
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Festivities for the ECA quasquicentennial – 2/3 September 2023 at Wanstead House – are close at hand, time to enter the weekend’s events if you have not already done so. For full details and online entry head over to the 125 Festival page Our featured picture shows the last Essex team to win the ECF […]
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The excellent news that the long-held efforts to get chess recognised at UK Government level have finally borne fruit has been announced by the ECF. The August issue of Chess News to ECF members says: As we go to press we’ve just received the fantastic news that the Department of Culture, Media and Sport has […]
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Played 24 August 2023, at Basildon Board BASILDON R1 R2 BARKING A 1 Baptie, Justin P 1888 (W, B) ½-½ ½-½ Goldberg, Jeff A 2150 (B, W) 2 Somogyi, Tamas 2127 ½-½ 0-1 Jaszkiwskyj, Peter 1958 3 Kraszewski, David 1985 ½-½ 0-1 Ramage, Colin R 1826 4 Staff, Robbie 1856 0-1 ½-½ Robinson, James M […]
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Played at Ilford CC, 21August 2023 Board ILFORD R1 R2 WANSTEAD A 1 Ghose, Rahul 1861 (W, B) 1-0 1-0 Hodgson, John H 2152 (B, W) 2 Twitchell, Neville H 1850 ½-½ ½-½ Spearman, David 2044 3 Page, Jeffrey 1757 0-1 0-1 Cawdery, John 2019 4 Jaiswal, Adhar 1652 0-1 0-1 Mulay, Partha 1976 5 […]
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Played 9 August 2023, at Thurrock Board Thurrock R1 R2 Wanstead B 1 Omoruyi, Jaden 1779 (W, B) 0-1 0-1 Rix, Steven JL 2045 (B, W) 2 Sheppard, Barry S 1780 0-1 0-1 Whitton, Terry D 1914 3 Baig, Huzaifa 1584 0-1 1-0 Staniland, Philip 1885 4 Eastwood, Tomas 1592 0-1 0-1 Barclay, Paul R […]
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On 28 July 1898 the Essex Chess Association came into being. To celebrate the quasquicentennial as our 125th year draws to an end a weekend festival of chess will take place over the weekend of 2/3 September 2023 at Wanstead House incorporating a commemorative 125 individual Rapid tournament on the Saturday afternoon followed by a social […]
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Played 1 August 2023, at Wanstead Board Wanstead C R1 R2 Loughton < 1 Li, Colin 1567 (B) R1 0-1 Stirling, William J 1905 (W) 1 Jones, Keith S 1679 (W) R2 1-0 Stirling, William J 1905 (B) 2 Diniz Afonso, Davi 1700 0-1 0-1 Horan, George 1788 3 Siddo, Charlton 1679 0-1 0-1 Moth, […]
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