Division 4 Forum 2024

Please use this forum for all matters relating to Division 4. 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 4 match is 5 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 D4 R1 Inverness vs Devon”) **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: 23:59
• AUTO-START: off
• Games are RATED: on

Links for the teams competing in Division 4 in 2024 are:

	Bedfordshire-Northamptonshire
	Team Cheshire
	Team Connacht
	Devon Chess
	Inverness Chess Club
	Leicestershire & Rutland
	Team Nottinghamshire
	Oxford Ospreys
	Warwickshire County Chess

Fixtures

Challenge sent to Warwickshire from Inverness

https://www.chess.com/daily-team/seek/2796887

Oxford Ospreys v Cheshire challenge sent

https://www.chess.com/daily-team/seek/2796631

Challenge sent to Oxford Ospreys

https://www.chess.com/daily-team/seek/2839549

https://www.chess.com/club/matches/1576553

Cheshire accepted

https://www.chess.com/daily-team/seek/2839617

Sent to Notts

https://www.chess.com/club/matches/leicestershire-and-rutland/1576601

Team Cheshire v Inverness Chess Club challenge sent.

https://www.chess.com/daily-team/seek/2859233

https://www.chess.com/club/matches/1589677

https://www.chess.com/club/matches/1589859

L&R vs Team Connacht

https://www.chess.com/daily-team/seek/2876697

Sent to Warwickshire

https://www.chess.com/daily-team/seek/2876699

Sent to Inverness

Thanks accepted by Inverness.

https://www.chess.com/club/matches/1601469

I've aborted the above accepted match and sent new challenge as noticed match was set for minimum 10 daily games.

https://www.chess.com/daily-team/seek/2876727

Thanks Martin. Good spot.

My bad. I had it set to that cuz I was sending 1WL matches on Friday and forgot to change it back.