Payed 27 June 2023, at Wanstead Board Wanstead B R1 R2 BASILDON 1 Whitton, Terry D 1896 (W, B) 0-1 1-0 Somogyi, Tamas 2139 (B, W) 2 Staniland, Philip 1852 1-0 1-0 Gedvilas, Arunas 1911 3 Barclay, Paul R 1726 ½-½ 0-1 Staff, Robbie 1891 4 Karacsony, Istvan 1631 1-0 0-1 Savin, Paul A 1823 […]
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Played 22 June 2023 at Barking CC. Board Barking B R1 R2 WANSTEAD A 1 Clow, Ken W 1705 0-1 0-1 Spearman, David 2233 2 Berkley, Stephen W 1659 0-1 0-1 Cawdery, John 2017 3 Wickham, Michael 1924 0-1 0-1 Freeman, Ashley 1976 4 Sinha, Anup 1691 1-0 0-1 Hunnable, Ian D 1994 5 Default […]
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Played 19 June 2023, at Ilford CC Board ILFORD R1 R2 Wanstead C 1 Barton, Tom A 1893 (W, B) 1-0 0-1 Diniz Afonso, Davi 1720 (B, W) 2 Ghose, Rahul 1871 0-1 1-0 Nickals, Peter A 1640 3 Twitchell, Neville H 1850 1-0 1-0 Lataille, Matthias 1635 4 Subramanian, Venkatesh 1899 1-0 1-0 Li, […]
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Tomorrow, 18 June 2023, we shall be holding the double event of the Essex Team Blitz and the ECA Lightning Championship, at Ilford CC’s venue at the Redbridge Social Centre. “Team Blitz and Lightning” day was sponsored by the late Syd Kalinsky since 1997. This, the first such event since his passing, is being held […]
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The Essex Knockout is under way with the same 10 teams as last year, save that Writtle are entering as Chelmsford (many members are common to both clubs and entering as Chelmsford allows access to a few more players). In the early years of the competition in its current Rapid format, Chelmsford entered in addition […]
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The League Champions are Wanstead. By a hair’s breadth over Writtle. Division 1 The first phase of seven matches all-play-all, left Writtle leading by a point over Wanstead. The top four after the first phase, Writtle 12, Wanstead 11, Barking 9, Brentwood 8, then had to play each other again to decide the Championship, first […]
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From ECA Match Captain, Mark Murrell: Essex made up for a double defeat away to the visiting Surrey teams back in November with a double home win both the Essex U1850 and U1450 teams turning the tables – and some – in the case of the U1450s, who as a result top the table with […]
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From ECA Match Captain, Mark Murrell Double wins have been the norm this season whenever the U2050 and U1650 Essex teams have played together and round 5 of 6 was no exception. This one was special though with both Essex teams securing a divisional Championship with a match still to play. The U1650s join the […]
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SCCU U1650: Essex 10½-5½ SurreyAt Wanstead. At the start of play skipper Malcolm was bemoaning the loss of some of his top players who were available for the original match date back on October 1st but not for the rescheduled match. On paper, Surrey out-rated Essex over the top 10 boards, but Essex won by […]
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SCCU U1850: Essex 10-6 KentAt Wanstead House Essex fielded their strongest team of the campaign, but Kent held the edge by nine points a board. At one point in the early results Essex were two down and it was not until the eighth result in the match, at 4.25 pm, that Essex U1850 took the […]
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