{"id":2072,"date":"2025-07-20T13:04:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T13:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/?p=2072"},"modified":"2025-07-20T14:06:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T14:06:02","slug":"simultaneous-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/07\/20\/simultaneous-display\/","title":{"rendered":"Simultaneous Display"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-larger-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">15 players &#8211; club members and two  welcome visitng guests, simultaneously challenged Chess Master player <strong>Mark Rich <\/strong>on Friday 18 July. Two hours of concentration and pressure on Mark, resulting in 3 draws ( Luke Chapman, Lawry Rhodes, <strong>Ed Booth <\/strong>&#8211; pictured R below next to Mark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_0519-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2074\" style=\"width:458px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_0519-rotated.jpg 240w, https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_0519-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-larger-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Mark judged that Ed had the best game as after 2 hours it still looked a dead draw and awarded a brand new chess book for Ed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_0517-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2075\" style=\"width:462px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_0517-rotated.jpg 240w, https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_0517-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-larger-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">At the end of the session, Mark lost on only two boards against Michael Hayward and Bill Tracey though Bill commented it &#8220;only happened as Mark tired and unfortunately blundered his Queen.&#8221; If my maths is right that meant Mark had victories over 10 of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_0520-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2076\" style=\"width:610px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_0520-rotated.jpg 320w, https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_0520-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-larger-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">All smiles from most of the players with Mark <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>15 players &#8211; club members and two welcome visitng guests, simultaneously challenged Chess Master player Mark Rich on Friday 18 July. Two hours of concentration and pressure on Mark, resulting in 3 draws ( Luke Chapman, Lawry Rhodes, Ed Booth &#8211; pictured R below next to Mark. Mark judged that Ed had the best game [&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-2072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072","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=2072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}