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 […]
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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. […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Played 23 July 2024, at Wanstead Board Wanstead C R1 R2 Brentwood B 1 Staniland, Philip 1807 (B, W) 0-1 ½-½ Kingsley, Malcolm P 1781 (W, B) 2 Anjulan, Ashwin 1699 1-0 1-0 Davies, Robert JV 1600 3 Barclay, Paul R 1751 0-1 ½-½ Bloom, Xander I 1777 4 Colclough, Ryan 1693 1-0 1-0 Ellis, […]
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Played 19 July 2024, at Wanstead Board WANSTEAD A R1 R2 BARKING 1 Hodgson, John H 2125 (W, B) 0-1 0-1 Goldberg, Jeff A 2108 (B, W) 2 Spearman, David 2100 0-1 1-0 Ismailov, Roman 2096 3 Mulay, Partha 2035 1-0 1-0 Ponulak, Czeslaw (Sebastian) 1962s 4 Cawdery, John 2060 1-0 1-0 Jaszkiwskyj, Peter 1904 […]
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Played 16 July 2024, at Wanstead Board WANSTEAD B R1 R2 BASILDON 1 Hunnable, Ian D 1958 (B, W) 1-0 0-1 Kraszewski, David 1941 (W, B) 2 Whitton, Terry D 1937 0-1 0-1 Bara, V Radu 1870 3 Karacsony, Istvan 1814 1-0 0-1 Gedvilas, Arunas 1940 4 Diniz Afonso, Davi 1746 1-0 ½-½ Staff, Robbie […]
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Board BARKING R1 R2 Loughton 1 Sands, David A 2227 (B, W) ½-½ ½-½ Somerfield, Adrian P 2132 (W, B) 2 Goldberg, Jeff A 2043 1-0 1-0 Middleton, Stephen 1908 3 Jaszkiwskyj, Peter 1965 ½-½ 1-0 Moth, Simon C 1802 4 Ramage, Colin R 1944 1-0 ½-½ Van Tol, Martin 1730 5 Robinson, James M […]
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