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 […]
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Double trouble
Essex came away empty handed from their double header against Surrey at Cheam on 7 December 2024. The Essex U2050 team lost narrowly 8½-7½ in a closely fought match. Scores were level with a handful of games still in play, Surrey edging the verdict on the run-in. Essex’ four wins came from Edgar Wilson, Robert […]
Open this postCometh the hour…
The lack of volunteers at the time of the Association’s AGM in June threatened, in the emotive words of ECA Secretary John Chapman, to turn Essex into a “chess desert”. The brutal logic being: no organisers, no competitions. That unthinkable scenario, with the Association so recently having celebrated its 125th Anniversary, has thankfully been avoided. […]
Open this postKnockout Plate: Match T – Plate Final
Played 18 September 2024 at Witham Witham & Maldon R1 R2 Loughton Mitchell, Steven 1953 (W, B) 1-0 0-1 Somerfield, Adrian P 1907 (B, W) Williamson, Paul L 1908 1-0 ½-½ Middleton, Stephen 1848 White, Simon A 1508 1-0 1-0 Van Tol, Martin 1721 Steele, James D 2076 1-0 1-0 Kershaw, Graham J 1656 Stiffell, […]
Open this postKnockout Cup: Match N – FINAL
Played 12 September 2024, at Barking BARKING R1 R2 BASILDON Sands, David A 2175 (B, W) ½-½ ½-½ Somogyi, Tamas 2096 (W, B) Goldberg, Jeff A 2111 ½-½ 1-0 Baptie, Justin P 1958 Ismailov, Roman 2102 0-1 1-0 Kraszewski, David 1964 Robinson, James M 1944 1-0 1-0 Gedvilas, Arunas 1937 Jaszkiwskyj, Peter 1892 ½-½ 1-0 […]
Open this postKnockout Cup SF: Match L
Played 22 August 2024, at Basildon BASILDON R1 R2 CHELMSFORD A Somogyi, Tamas 2108 (W, B) 0-1 ½-½ White, Russell P 2065 (B, W) Kraszewski, David 1942 1-0 1-0 Myall, Ivan J 1975 Gedvilas, Arunas 1933 0-1 1-0 Wilson, Edgar 2001 Laundy, Peter R 1904 0-1 1-0 Spurr, Michael 1881 Millward, David J 1685 1-0 […]
Open this post3rd Brentwood Rapid – 24 August 2024
Robin Slade and Richard Pert are running the 3rd Brentwood Rapid on Saturday 24th August at Brentwood School… See full details via the link below. Link: 3rd Brentwood Rapid details (pdf)
Open this postCounty Captains needed
With the sudden death of Sean Horan just before the ECF quarter final, Essex have found themselves without an U1650 and U1450 captain in addition to the already vacant U1850 team captaincy. The ECA Executive at its recent meeting has resolved to only enter County Teams which have a captain. At the present time this means […]
Open this postEssex at the British
There is a technical problem with the Essex at the British page ongoing at the moment which is preventing update of the page. Our Internet Service Provider is looking into it and we hope to resume normal operations shortly. Update 3 Aug, 01:31 – problem fixed. Now catching up with the data.
Open this postEssex at the British 2024
The British Chess Championships are under way in Hull and we today launch our regular feature “Essex at the British”. You can of course follow all the events on the BCC website, but “Essex at the British” is the only place you will find details of all the Essex stars at your fingertips, in one […]
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