{"id":1292,"date":"2024-03-10T14:11:17","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T14:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2024-03-10T14:11:17","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T14:11:17","slug":"3rd-team-gain-a-vital-win-over-eastbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/03\/10\/3rd-team-gain-a-vital-win-over-eastbourne\/","title":{"rendered":"3rd team gain a vital win over Eastbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_8834-edited.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1294\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Friday 8th Bexhill 3 played Eastbourne 3 in a vital relegation battle in division 2 of The Sussex league.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As with every match this season we were once again out rated. This time we were out rated by 440 points on the top 3 boards (on board 4 Jo does not yet have an established grade]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First to finish was Jo on board 4. He took advantage of his opponents gambit in the opening and steadily built up an overwhelming lead until his opponent resigned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Luke on board 1 was next to finish. He faced a vastly experienced opponent and the game boiled down to Luke having 4 pawns, bishop and Knight to 7 pawns and Bishop. Ultimately the 4 to 1 advantage on the King\u2019s side proved decisive an, with promotion imminent Luke resigned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was next to finish on board 3. I was forced to defend an endgame where I had an isolated pawn on the h file and doubled pawns on the F file. Fortunately I was able to hold on for about 25 moves and escaped with a draw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lawry had a big challenge on board 2 being out rated by 240 points. He responded superbly. The end game was very tense Lawry having Queen, Rook and 2 pawns<br>to his opponents Queen, Rook and 4 pawns. Lawry managed to win a pawn, and with both Kings<br>now quite open a draw was looking likely and, indeed, Lawry offered a draw, but his opponent declined.<br>However his opponent was under big time control pressure and living on his 30 second increment.<br>Finally as he strived to find a way past Lawry\u2019s stout defense his clock ran out. Lawry deserves huge credit for his excellent end game resistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Final score Bexhill 2.5 Eastbourne 1.5<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This result now moves the 3rd team level with the 2nd team and 2 places out of the relegation zone. One more win from our last 3 games will insure that we remain in Division 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday 8th Bexhill 3 played Eastbourne 3 in a vital relegation battle in division 2 of The Sussex league. As with every match this season we were once again out rated. This time we were out rated by 440 points on the top 3 boards (on board 4 Jo does not yet have an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292","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=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}