We announce the belated return of our former annual feature following Essex stars at the Chessable British Championships, now nearing their closing stages in Torquay. The format reverts to something near its former two week stint, but with 9 rounds for the Championship and the Major Open instead of 11 Rounds in former times. We […]
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Played 3 August 2022, at Writtle WRITTLE R1 R2 LOUGHTON White, Russell P 2105 (W, B) 1-0 ½-½ Bowmer, Kevin 2035 (B, W) Myall, Ivan J 2025 ½-½ 0-1 Stirling, William J 1915 Wilson, Edgar 2001 1-0 0-1 Faulkner, David J 1744 Mueller, Jens 1948 1-0 1-0 Van Tol, Martin 1769 Millward, David J 1824 […]
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Played 2 August 2022, at Wanstead Wanstead B R1 R2 Ilford Barclay, Paul R 1773 ½-½ ½-½ Twitchell, Neville H 1863 Jones, Keith S 1711 0-1 ½-½ Barton, Tom A 1865 Nigrelli, Vittorio 1672 0-1 0-1 Ghose, Rahul 1810 Siddo, Charlton 1660 1-0 1-0 Lowe, Daniel 1485 Rawlings, David J 1645 0-1 1-0 Asif, Rayyan […]
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Played 19 July 2022, at Wanstead Wanstead C R1 R2 Thurrock 1 Senan, Tu 1817 (B, W) 0-1 ½-½ Sadhasivam, Mangalaram 1645 (W, B) 2 Lataille, Matthias 1576 0-1 ½-½ Baig, Huzaifa 1446 3 Colclough, Ryan 1545 1-0 0-1 Akinyosoye, Banky 1556 4 Smith, David 1525 0-1 1-0 Lawrence, Drew 1589 5 Mukherjee, Aradhya 1491 […]
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Round 1 has been completed with the following results: Match A Thurrock ½-9½ WRITTLEMatch B LOUGHTON 5½-4½ Wanstead CMatch C WANSTEAD A 8½-1½ Barking BMatch D BASILDON 7-3 Wanstead BMatch E Ilford 4-6 BARKING A Seeded teams in CAPS throughout. Round 2 pairing: WRITTLE v LOUGHTON WANSTEAD A, BASILDON and BARKING A have a Bye […]
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Thurrock R1 R2 WRITTLE Omoruyi, Jaden 1768 ½-½ 0-1 Myall, Ivan J 2028 Crane, Malcolm K 1566 0-1 0-1 Wilson, Edgar 1998 Akinyosoye, Banky 1474 0-1 0-1 Moore, John C 1972 Ball, Richard 1368 0-1 0-1 Millward, David J 1822 Sandu, Silviu 1579 0-1 0-1 Bowden, Madison B 1800 ½-4½ 0-5 Thurrock ½-9½ […]
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TITLES Four Essex teams entered the return of the Couties Championships back in September. Two of the Essex teams – U2050 and U1850 – were SCCU Champions, the other two – U1650 and U1450 – were runners up, two went on to become National Champions: U2050 and U1450. Congratulations to everyone involved for a fine […]
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ECF U2050 Final: Essex 8½-7½ SurreyAt Wanstead. At one stage, Essex were four points down at E 2½-6½ S and there were some glum Essex faces. Then Essex won two in a row before another Surrey win, so Surrey were still three up at E 4½-7½ S. Just four now left in play from which […]
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Finals day! Two Essex teams compete in the ECF County Championships Finals today: U2050 and U1450 and in each case the opposition is Surrey. For once the Finals are being played at other than a central venue, in the case of the U2050, U1650 (Surrey v Warks) and U1450, the venue is Wanstead House. There […]
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Played 30 June 2022, at Basildon BASILDON R1 R2 Wanstead B Somogyi, Tamas 2038 (W, B) 1-0 ½-½ Barclay, Paul R 1750 (B, W) Bara, V Radu 1950 ½-½ 0-1 Jones, Keith S 1705 Kraszewski, David 1960 1-0 1-0 Nickals, Peter A 1641 Gedvilas, Arunas 1915 1-0 ½-½ Sharman, Jay 1596 Laundy, Peter R 1930 […]
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