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• This is Chris Todd.
• For the Albany Club, see London Chess: Albany Club and Middlesex Chess: Albany Club.

• Though not sufficiently recently to appear on the ECF database (unless he should be the Colin Scott who played for Thurrock between 1994 and 2002, rated 124 dropping to 106, which isn’t what he told me!).

• I have to admit that the chess scene in Billericay initially seemed somewhat unexciting. I visited Billericay Chess Club on 6th April 2011. There was a club match, so I couldn’t play any of the better players, but played a keen but not very competent young man who hadn’t make the cut. It was interesting to see how rusty I was, though I won all four games. I had a chat with one of the committee-members afterwards, and left my email address. For some reason, I didn’t hear back. However, I’ve subsequently (July 2018) made contact again and am now a fully signed-up and enthusiastic member.
• The Billericay Club has an excellent website: see Billericay Chess Club. It seems to go into a hiatus around November each year as its webmaster is very busy, but revives when the new season starts.
• The club meets on Wednesdays at 19:30, now at Anisha Grange. The room is very cheap, but rather too small, so can’t accommodate a club night if there’s a home league match on.
• The website describes the club as having 13 active members with teams in the North Essex and Southend & District Leagues.
• The club is not very strong: see the link on the NECL site (NECL: Billericay - 2018).
• At one time there was an IM (Richard Pert – BCF: Richard Pert, FIDE: Richard Pert; twin brother of GM Nick Pert (Wikipedia: Nick Pert); main club Wood Green) rather loosely connected to the club by the look of things – but he’s no longer listed. The NECL site for 2017/8 listed a couple of Junior Perts; a family connection – as is confirmed by the BCF link above. However, they’ve shifted allegiance to get more games.

• But I don’t intend to get obsessed with gradings, but just want to play well and enjoy the game.

• There appears to be a bug, as it currently (3rd June 2019) says 'No result details this year'. But if you then click on the previous year (for which there really are no results) and THEN on the current year, they will pop up.
• I've raised this with the ECF! They had hoped to fix this along with the next revision, sometime later in April 2019, but don’t seem to have done so.

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