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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ECA AGM 22 June 2022
The ECA AGM was held at Wanstead House, 22 June 2022. Principal points: Item 4 – Constitution amendments (Article 5): proposal to re-name two posts (“Grader” to “Rating Officer”, “Correspondence Match Captain” to “Webserver Chess Match Captain”) and remove a third (“Congress Secretary”) was carried; Item 5 – Reports; League Tom Barton (League Secretary) said […]
Open this postEssex League to resume
Following the AGM in June, the first task of new League Secretary, Tom Barton, was to get the Essex League up and running again. This was no small task, requiring a re-build in these Covid times, with no League chess since the 2019-20 competition was brought to a grinding halt by national lockdown. There was […]
Open this postDavid Millward stands down as League Secretary
In a seminal ECA AGM, the most significant feature of the meeting was the end of the tenure of David Millward as League Secretary. In his League Secretary’s report, David reported that at its recent meeting, the LMC (League Management Committee) had reached a decision to complete the 2019-20 League commpetition which was brought to […]
Open this postECA Vacancies – Treasurer, Assistant Match Captain
ECA Secretary, John Chapman, appeals for members to step forward to fill two vacancies among our Officers: The Essex Chess Association has two vacancies which we need to fill with a suitable candidate for each position. We urgently need a Treasurer as we currently do not have one. Click the Job Descriptions link below and […]
Open this postECA AGM 30 June 2020
The Association’s Annual General Meeting was held on 30 June 2020, by video conference on Zoom.com – a first for the Association. We thank Tom Barton for arranging this and for all who “attended” and enabled this most important business to be transacted. With his customary efficiency, Steve Wedlock has already produced the Minutes, which […]
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