{"id":2180,"date":"2025-09-08T11:44:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T11:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/?p=2180"},"modified":"2025-09-08T11:44:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T11:44:01","slug":"university-challenging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/09\/08\/university-challenging\/","title":{"rendered":"UNIVERSITY CHALLENGING"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-larger-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The 3rd Sussex University Chess Congress ( Standard Play) took place recently. Now in a new-looking Student Centre, with electronic display boards for the Open section ,with an impressive field of competition overall, with 2 additional sections ( U-1900 and u-1600). Bexhill Chess Club was well represented. Here is Bill Tracey&#8217;s excellent report.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-larger-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Over\u00a0 the weekend of\u00a0 August 29th to 31st six members of our club took part in the 3rd Sussex University Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-larger-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Luke Chapman competed in the Open section and continued&nbsp; to show the fine form that he has displayed this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-larger-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">He finished the tournament in 14th place having started ranked 22nd scoring 3 points with 2 wins 2 draws and 1 loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-larger-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">His only loss coming against the tournament winner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-larger-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">In the u1900 section we had 5 entrants Rose, Lawry, Michael H,  our new member Oliver Kuzmanoski and myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-larger-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">I had a rather average tournament and scored 2 points.  <em>( He was much better than that- the competition was intense! ) <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-larger-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Rose and Lawry both competed well and finished on 2.5 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-larger-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">However the stars of our group were Michael and Oliver who only lost 1 game each finishing on 3.5 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-larger-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">This was enough for them to finish joint 2nd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-larger-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Congratulations to both Michael and Oliver. Oliver joined the club literally over this weekend.  Welcome!  I think we will be seeing a lot more of both featured in the new season&#8217;s successes. Watch this space&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 3rd Sussex University Chess Congress ( Standard Play) took place recently. Now in a new-looking Student Centre, with electronic display boards for the Open section ,with an impressive field of competition overall, with 2 additional sections ( U-1900 and u-1600). Bexhill Chess Club was well represented. Here is Bill Tracey&#8217;s excellent report. Over\u00a0 the [&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-2180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180","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=2180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}