{"id":2358,"date":"2025-12-01T20:55:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T20:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/?p=2358"},"modified":"2025-12-01T20:55:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T20:55:28","slug":"bexhill-open-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/12\/01\/bexhill-open-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Bexhill Open Success"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Achieved both on and off the boards<\/strong>…..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here is the final results<\/strong> table :<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Congratulations to the outright winner, International Master Peter Large : <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Outright winner Peter Large on 6\/6<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Talented Juniors were joint Runners-Up :<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Luke Freeman ( 2nd on tie-break) and Hal Gomez, both on 5 points<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Rating Prizes:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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U-1850 Jack Lawrence-Cade<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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U-1650 – Michael Hayward on 4 \/6 . Bill Tracey, our chaIrman drew attention afterwards to Michael’s achievement as outstanding not only for th<\/em>is performance, which included defeating a WFM rated 400 points above, but also running a taxi service from Cooden! <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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U-1500 – Joint winners on 3\/6 Lawry Rhodes, Robert Hopkins (above) and Yoteng Wang ( not pictured) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Other Open Prizes<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Junior : <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Best Bexhill Player, Luke Chapman, on 4 points, with Chairman Bill Tracey <\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Best Senior :<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Best Senior, John Sugden on 4.5\/6 <\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

CHALLENGERS SECTION – RESULTS :<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Challengers winners below – Freddie White (5.5\/6) Magnus Gomez (5\/6) and Jacob Delacour ( 4\/6) : <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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EDITOR<\/em> : Chairman Bill Tracey reflected on the day :<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The event attracted 53 entrants\u00a0 although two had to pull out due to illness. In total 16 of our members entered and were a real credit to the club.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Bill focussed on all the club’s achievements off the board too<\/em>, omitting to add praise for his own central, leading efforts.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I would like to thank all the members who gave of their time to help make the event such a success.:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Our kitchen team of Nick, Karen and Mike Chapman did a wonderful job of keeping us all very well fed and watered.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Steve Merchant did a fine job of co-ordinating the entries.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • John Kimber kindly provided 6 of his excellent chess sets.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Michael Hayward provided a taxi service to Cooden train station.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Oliver Kuzmanoski, Mike and Luke Chapman, Lawry Rhodes Jo Carthew and Michael Hayward did the heavy shifting on Friday night to get the venue ready for the big day.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Last but definitely not least Rose, who has recently passed her arbiters exams, worked all day alongside our chief arbiter to ensure the smooth and efficient running of the tournament.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    There were many very positive comments from our visitors both about the smooth running of the tournament and of our excellent facilities. “<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    EDITOR : Thank you to Marc Bryant ( Hastings) for the loan of clocks .<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Thanks to Nick Burgess for photos<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Thanks to the visiting players for their participation, maintaining a spirit of warm co-operation in competition, and helping clear up !<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    PHOTOS FROM PLAY : <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    A pleasant playing space<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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    Looks like Oli battling Michael Hayward<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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    Andrew Fleming earning a creidtable 3.5\/6<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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    Bill Luxton , with a fine 4\/6 score – at work wearing the club hoodie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Achieved both on and off the boards….. Here is the final results table : Congratulations to the outright winner, International Master Peter Large : Talented Juniors were joint Runners-Up : Rating Prizes: Other Open Prizes: Best Junior : Best Senior : CHALLENGERS SECTION – RESULTS : Challengers winners below – Freddie White (5.5\/6) Magnus Gomez […]<\/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-2358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358","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=2358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}