Some of the Bexhill Contestants:
L-R: Andrew, Lawry, Michael Hayward, Rose, Bill T., Bill L., Steve
.( photo thanks to Nick Burgess)
Here is Chairman Bill Tracey’s report :
“The Weekend Congress was great fun with generally good performances by Bexhill members.
In the Open section Michael Hubbard was 1.5 from 5 one win one draw and Luke was 2 from 5 one win and two draws.
In the Major section Andrew performed very well to gain 3.5 points from 3 wins and 1 draw and finished joint 4th.
Rose had a fine performance starting as the 19th ranked player she came 7th with 3 points including 2 wins against much higher rated players.
In the Inter section Oliver, playing at Hastings for the first time had a fine tournament finishing joint 8th with 3 points from a possible 5.
I too was in this section which had 43 entrants and also came joint 8th with 3 points.
I, perhaps had the oddest day as in the 4th round I played possibly my worst ever game with the computer analysis showing that I played with only 61% accuracy! Then in the afternoon winning in round 5 with an accuracy of 96.2%!
During the whole 8 days of competition a total of 10 Bexhill members played in at least one of the Congress events.
This meant that we were second only to the Hastings club in terms of numbers.
Bill “