The Central London League has completed its 3rd season. Rangers won Division 1, and Pimlico 2 won Division 2.
The purpose of this post is to publicise the League and invite team entries for next season. As before, there will be an open Division 1 and a grade-limited Division 2 (max 175), for teams of 5 boards. If there is enough interest we will also run a grade-limited Division 3 (max 145), for teams of 4 boards.
The deadline for team entries is 30 June, and fixtures will be published in the first half of July.
In the Central London League, all matches are played at a venue within tube zone 1 and all matches finish on the night - no adjudications or no adjournments. The time control is 75 minutes for the game plus 15 seconds a move from the start.
The league is informal and non-bureaucratic in spirit. We keep rules and costs to a minimum. We charge £20 per team per match to use the central (Pimlico) venue as their home venue – this is available on Thursday evenings. Also we recover the game fee cost from clubs for their non-ECF members. Apart from that there are no costs.
Players who do not have a team of their own are welcome to play for one of the existing teams. There are no eligibility restrictions.
For more details about the League, including statistics for last season, see the website at http://clcl.org.uk/.