{"id":2130,"date":"2025-08-17T13:57:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T13:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/?p=2130"},"modified":"2025-08-22T16:09:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:09:46","slug":"lukes-blitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/08\/17\/lukes-blitz\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke&#8217;s BLITZ!"},"content":{"rendered":"\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\/08\/IMG_0581-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2131\" style=\"width:600px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_0581-rotated.jpg 240w, https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_0581-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-larger-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Luke Chapman<\/strong>, on Friday 15 Aug , showing his sweeping successes this year have been no &#8216;<strong>f<\/strong><em>luke<\/em>&#8216;, capped off the season with his final trophy &#8211;  for 1st place in the Annual club Blitz tournament, with a stunning 4.5\/5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-larger-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">In 2nd place was <strong>James Lumsden <\/strong>with 4\/5 who was also presented this year&#8217;s Mid-Sussex tankard  for the <strong>outstanding player in the second division<\/strong>. Congratulations James!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">James pictured earlier this year :<\/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\/image1-rotated.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2086\" style=\"width:609px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image1-rotated.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image1-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-larger-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">With a great score, in 3rd place was <strong>Janis Petersens<\/strong>, who was also adept in handling the bespoke laptop installed for such efficient tournament control! And credit to <strong>Jo Carthew,<\/strong> edged out on tie-break also on 3.5<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-larger-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"> Well done to all for a great competition, and with thanks especially to Bill Tracey for the organisation. It was good to welcome a strong visitor from the West Midlands, John Wrench, who added an extra edge to the battles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is the final crosstable :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_0582-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2133\" style=\"width:610px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-larger-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Editor &#8211; In the next few days I will be posting games\/ key positions  from Luke&#8217;s and Rose Burgess&#8217; performance in the recent British Championship in Liverpool, so don&#8217;t leave it too long before you log on to us again.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke Chapman, on Friday 15 Aug , showing his sweeping successes this year have been no &#8216;fluke&#8216;, capped off the season with his final trophy &#8211; for 1st place in the Annual club Blitz tournament, with a stunning 4.5\/5. In 2nd place was James Lumsden with 4\/5 who was also presented this year&#8217;s Mid-Sussex tankard [&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-2130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130","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=2130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}