{"id":1489,"date":"2024-08-05T16:49:30","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T16:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/?p=1489"},"modified":"2024-08-05T16:49:30","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T16:49:30","slug":"kent-congress-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/08\/05\/kent-congress-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Well done to all the Bexhill members who battled it out recently at the Kent congress. Here is a report from our chairman Bill Tracey:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the weekend of 19th – 21st July 6 club members took part in The Tunbridge Wells Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the U1900 section our entrants were Bill Luxton, Michael Hayward and Luke Chapman and in the U1600 we had Noah Pearson, Rose Burgess and myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the U1900 Michael fought hard in all of his games and finished with 2 points. Luke likewise competed very well and finished on 2.5 points. Bill really performed very well as, despite being out rated in each of his 5 games, he gained 3 points losing only 1 game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the U1600 section Noah performed exceptionally well. Playing in his first competition of this type he won his first match against an opponent rated 560 points higher! He then got a draw against an opponent rated 650 points higher. In the end he finished with 2.5 points finishing in 11th place despite starting as the 24th ranked competitor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rose had a great competition, starting as the 16th ranked player, she gained 3.5 points and eventually finished 3rd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had a decent competition. For my last match I played the competition leader. He had half a point more than me so I needed a win. I pushed very hard turning down a draw offer after 26 moves. I kept pushing but after 3 hours and 35 minutes made an error and resigned. I finally finished on 3 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a very well run competition in an excellent venue and I would recommend it to our members for next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well done to all the Bexhill members who battled it out recently at the Kent congress. Here is a report from our chairman Bill Tracey: On the weekend of 19th – 21st July 6 club members took part in The Tunbridge Wells Congress. In the U1900 section our entrants were Bill Luxton, Michael Hayward and […]<\/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-1489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489","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=1489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}