CC26 Division 4 Forum

Please use this forum for all matters relating to Division 4. The team links and the 2026 fixtures can be found below. The results and tables can be found by clicking this link: CC26 League Results

The minimum number of players for a division 3 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).

CC26 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: "CC26 [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 2026 are:

	Aberdeenshire
	Team Cheshire
	Devon Chess
	Team Essex
	Team Nottinghamshire
	Oxfordshire Chess Association
	Team Suffolk
	Province of Ulster
	Warwickshire County Chess
	Team Wiltshire

Fixtures

R1 challenge

Notts > Suffolk https://www.chess.com/daily-team/seek/3248863

R2 challenge Warwickshire > Suffolk https://www.chess.com/daily-team/seek/3262835

https://www.chess.com/daily-team/seek/3281473

D4 challenges:

• Aberdeenshire v Ulster https://www.chess.com/daily-team/seek/3295887

https://www.chess.com/club/matches/1912787

Match open

Apologies I forgot to post the challenge link for Wiltshire vs Suffolk

https://www.chess.com/daily-team/seek/3311327

The final match to start is looking likely to be a forfeit loss for Team Suffolk

Both of their admins have been online so looks like a forfeit

Challange to Team Suffolk for R5 has not been accepted and has now expired.