Division 3 Forum 2024

Please use this forum for all matters relating to Division 3. The team links and the 2024 fixtures can be found below. The results and tables can be found by clicking this link: CC24 League Results

The minimum number of players for a division 2 match is 6 but please aim for more. 

3 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).

CC24 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 - 3 MARCH

R5 - 31 MARCH

R6 - 28 APRIL

R7 - 26 MAY

R8 - 23 JUNE

R9 - 21 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 23:59 on the 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: "CC24 [Division] [Round] [Team 1] [Team 2]" (e.g., “CC24 D3 R1 Edinburgh-Lothian vs Team Staffordshire”) **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: 6. Max: leave free
• Concurrent Games: 2
• Start Date: See fixture table above
• Start Time: 23:59
• AUTO-START: off
• Games are RATED: on

Links for the teams competing in Division 3 in 2024 are:

	Aberdeenshire
	Team Birmingham
	Team Channel Islands
	Edinburgh-Lothian
	Team Gloucestershire
	Hertfordshire County Chess
	Team Lincolnshire
	Team Staffordshire
	Team Suffolk
	Province of Ulster

Fixtures

Just to give the heads up. I have left Team Gloucestershire as SA and as a member. Had enough of the problem of getting people to play for the team. I gave the Team plenty of warning (August I told them) but got no response so I have decided to carry out my decision. Foxy

Lincs v Birmingham challenge https://www.chess.com/daily-team/seek/2797611

Edinburgh-Lothian vs Channel Islands challenge sent

https://www.chess.com/daily-team/seek/2797875

Herts v Suffolk challenge sent

https://www.chess.com/daily-team/seek/2799071

The Round 2 cup match Ulster vs Edinburgh-Lothian has by agreement been combined with the Round 5 league match between the teams, by agreement between team admins and the completion organisers.

Ulster vs Channel Islands

https://www.chess.com/daily-team/seek/2821829

Challenge sent lincs v staffs

https://www.chess.com/daily-team/seek/2821987

I’ll send out news. No idea what’s happened to their local admins.

They are usually fairly responsive to news. Announcements.

Herts v Birmingham challenge sent https://www.chess.com/daily-team/seek/2839555