SCCU U2050: Surrey 7-9 Essex At Cheam. With a history of defeat at this venue, Essex returned home happy on a wet and blustery day, with a 9-7 victory and qualification to the ECF championship stages assured. See full details and Michael Spurr’s report on the U2050 page (link below). The SCCU Championship is still […]
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SCCU U2050: Middx 4-12 Essex At Childs Hill. Michael Spurr assembled a strong team to take to Childs HIll. While still not at full strength, Essex inflicted on the home team a 12-4 defeat, only eclipsed in the post-covid era by the 12½-3½ victory at home to Kent in 2022-23, but certainly the largest Away […]
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SCCU U2050 Essex 8½-7½ Middx. At Wanstead. At the same stage last season, Essex U2050 were on 0/2 on their way to 0/3, finishing with 2/6 including double defeats v Middx. Both ghosts were laid to rest in this new campaign, following last month’s away victory v Kent with a narrow home win against Middx, […]
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A roundup of matches to date (latest at the top). There is a slightly staggered appearance to the SCCU calendar for once, resulting from several more fixture changes than usual. Matches normally paired on the same date (e.g. Essex v Middx at U1850 and U1450) are now, for various reasons, split. The overall fixtures calendar […]
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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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From Mark Murrell As champions elect going into dead rubbers for our Essex U2050 and U1650 teams and the longest excursion of the campaigns, skippers Mark Murrell and Malcolm Crane nevertheless assembled competitive teams whilst taking advantage of the opportunity to introduce new players to Essex over-the-board county chess. It was not however all plain […]
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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 U2050: Essex 12½-3½ KentAt Wanstead. Great effort today against an under-strength Kent, but nevertheless making the most of the rating advantage and pressing for those extra half points for a 9 point winning margin: 12½-3½. Kent took the early lead, Sasha beat the Kent skip to level and from then on it was plain sailing. […]
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SCCU U2050: Middx 7½-8 EssexAt Shepherd’s Bush Essex were missing a number of regulars for various reasons, but when the teams were declared so were Middx and there was nothing between the two teams on paper. Some Essex players were delayed by problems on the M25, but all arrived within default time. Middlesex held the […]
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SCCU U2050: Essex 10½-5½ SurreyAt Wanstead. The first match of the new campaign featured last season’s two ECF U2050 County Championships Finalists – and who can forget that famous Essex come-from-behind victory? Faced with travelling across London on a train strike day, Surrey are to be commended for not postponing, while their U1650 team (also […]
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