{"id":1144,"date":"2023-12-04T10:33:04","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T10:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/?p=1144"},"modified":"2023-12-04T10:33:04","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T10:33:04","slug":"match-report-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/12\/04\/match-report-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Match report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_8506-1024x972.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1145\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We travelled to the University knowing that we had a big challenge on our hands and what followed was one of the best performances by any Bexhill team since we entered the Leagues 4 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First to finish was Alan on board 3. Taking on an opponent outrating him by 180 points, he played a very solid game which ended in a draw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was on board&nbsp; and, my opponent out rated me by 220 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We played a very evenly balanced game and, after 35 moves I offered a draw. He thought for several minutes and, rather reluctantly, he agreed. Analysis showed the final position to be level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Steve Merchant on board 1&nbsp; was next to finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Steve played exceptionally well to really outplay an opponent rated 167 points higher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eventually with Steve very well on top his opponent resigned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On 4 Jo continued his recent fine form and recorded a fine win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sussex University 1&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;1&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Bexhill 3&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We travelled to the University knowing that we had a big challenge on our hands and what followed was one of the best performances by any Bexhill team since we entered the Leagues 4 years ago. First to finish was Alan on board 3. Taking on an opponent outrating him by 180 points, he played [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-midsussexleague"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}