CC25 Division 4 Forum

Please use this forum for all matters relating to Division 4. The team links and the 2025 fixtures can be found below. The results and tables can be found by clicking this link: CC25 League Results

The minimum number of players for a division 4 match is 5 but please aim for more. 

2 teams will be promoted/relegated at the end of the season based on position in the league (In exceptional circumstances less teams maybe relegated to reorganise the division, (if a team withdraws, for example).

CC25 matches will be at regular 28 day intervals, this is to avoid the March fixture congestion of previous seasons. Round dates are below, announcements will be published 2 weeks prior to these dates

R1 - 10 DECEMBER 

R2 - 7 JANUARY

R3 - 4 FEBRUARY

R4 - 4 MARCH

R5 - 1 APRIL

R6 - 29 APRIL

R7 - 27 MAY

R8 - 24 JUNE

R9 - 22 JULY 

Challenges should be sent only after the instruction is received in a news item. Either team can send the challenge. If a team does not have enough players by the time & day the match is due to start, the match will be defaulted and the points awarded to the opposition, if both teams fail to get enough players both teams will default.

Please set up all matches as follows:

To create a match in the new format, please refer to this FORUM

League Matches

• Match Name: "CC25 [Division] [Round] [Team 1] [Team 2]" (e.g., “CC25 D4 R1 Team Buckinghamshire vs Munster”) **Note that the club names are not now added automatically, you will have to type these in.
• Description: Can be left blank or a link to this group https://www.chess.com/club/county-championship-council-uk-and-ireland
• Game Type: Standard Chess
• Days per Move: 3
• Rating Range: Min: none; max: none
• Minimum Games: 0
• Players per Club: Min: 5. Max: leave free
• Concurrent Games: 2
• Start Date: See fixture table above
• Start Time: Any time
• AUTO-START: N/A
• Games are RATED: on

Links for the teams competing in Division 4 in 2025 are:

	Aberdeenshire
	Bedfordshire-Northamptonshire
	Team Birmingham
	Cefn Gwlad Cymru
	Team Cheshire
	Devon Chess
	Team Leinster
	Team Nottinghamshire
	Team Suffolk
	Team Wiltshire

Fixtures

R2 challenges:

• Birmingham vs Cheshire https://www.chess.com/daily-team/seek/3045271
• Notts vs Suffolk https://www.chess.com/daily-team/seek/3045277
• Cefn Gwlad vs Devon https://www.chess.com/daily-team/seek/3045281

R3 CHALLENGES:

• Birmingham vs Suffolk https://www.chess.com/daily-team/seek/3061143

https://www.chess.com/club/matches/1731453

Cheshire vs Devon

R4 challenge

Aberdeenshire vs Suffolk https://www.chess.com/daily-team/seek/3080871

https://www.chess.com/club/matches/team-wiltshire/1745903

Cheshire vs Wiltshire

https://www.chess.com/club/matches/team-suffolk/1761921

Two days to start

R6 Challenges:

Team Leinster > Cheshire https://www.chess.com/daily-team/seek/3113683

Cefn Gwlad Cymru > Suffolk https://www.chess.com/daily-team/seek/3113689