{"id":1375,"date":"2026-01-16T14:30:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T14:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/?p=1375"},"modified":"2026-02-13T21:03:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T21:03:14","slug":"culcheth-players-represent-warrington-at-4ncl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/16\/culcheth-players-represent-warrington-at-4ncl\/","title":{"rendered":"Culcheth players represent Warrington at 4NCL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>by Steven Potter<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.4ncl.co.uk\/\">Four Nations Chess League<\/a> &#8211; for more info on 4ncl<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Warrington Mates in the 4NCL 25-26 Season.<br>Going into the 2 nd weekend at Coventry the Mates were 5 th in the table and welcomed<br>Jamie to the team\u2019s ranks as mate number 10.<br>Saturday was a match against Poole Patzers, and for the first time 7 players travelled, so<br>the team had a substitute if required. The match didn\u2019t go well though, a 4.5-1.5 loss to a<br>higher graded team, without a win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>Warrington Mates 2029 &nbsp; Poole Patzers 2124<br>341 w Norris, Ethan 2223 e 0 &#8211; 1 Stubbs, Oliver c 2203<br>342 b Mazek, Marek 2154 e \u00bd &#8211; \u00bd Majeed, Haroon 2224 e<br>343 w Barnes, Jamie 2075 e \u00bd &#8211; \u00bd Gomez, Daniel 2185 e<br>344 b Kay, Lee P 1983 e \u00bd &#8211; \u00bd Waddington, Mike P f 2084 e<br>345 w Furness, Robert M 1886 e 0 &#8211; 1 Thomas, James 2104 e<br>346 b Potter, Steven 1854 e 0 &#8211; 1 Weatherlake, John P 1947 e<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The evening meal.<br>The Mates went to a Turkish restaurant called Antalya. It must be a chain restaurant as<br>the team passed another one on the way there. The food was great, there was plenty of it<br>and was well cooked.<br>Sunday replicated the previous weekend, having had a bad result on the Saturday,<br>Sunday was the total opposite, a comfortable win without losing a game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp; Celtic Tigers 2 1836 &nbsp; Warrington Mates 2023<br>351 w Quinn, John M 2072 0 &#8211; 1 Norris, Ethan 2223 e<br>352 b Pedersen, Carsten 2017 \u00bd &#8211; \u00bd Mazek, Marek 2154 e<br>353 w Cranston, Adam 1808 \u00bd &#8211; \u00bd Barnes, Jamie 2075 e<br>354 b Sturt, Charles A 1754 0 &#8211; 1 Mulleady, Peter J 1950 e<br>355 w Hoong, Jonathan * 1723 e \u00bd &#8211; \u00bd Furness, Robert M 1886 e<br>356 b Rose, Peter 1642 0 &#8211; 1 Potter, Steven 1854 e<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>So the the Mates slip 1 place in the table, but are looking up more than down. The next weekend should help define the season with games against Rhyfelwyr Essyllwg and<br>Ashfield 1, who are both currently placed below the Mates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Players that have represented Warrington in 4NCL since team formation in 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"697\" height=\"513\" src=\"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-4.png 697w, https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-4-300x221.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"887\" height=\"488\" src=\"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-3.png 887w, https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-3-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-3-768x423.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Steven Potter Four Nations Chess League &#8211; for more info on 4ncl Warrington Mates in the 4NCL 25-26 Season.Going into the 2 nd weekend at Coventry the Mates were 5 th in the table and welcomedJamie to the team\u2019s ranks as mate number 10.Saturday was a match against Poole Patzers, and for the first &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/16\/culcheth-players-represent-warrington-at-4ncl\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Culcheth players represent Warrington at 4NCL&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1375"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1386,"href":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions\/1386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}