{"id":2506,"date":"2026-01-29T13:31:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T13:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/?p=2506"},"modified":"2026-01-29T13:31:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T13:31:04","slug":"watson-trophy-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/watson-trophy-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Watson Trophy Defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-accent-background-color has-background has-larger-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>UCKFIELD&#8212;3 -1&#8212;BEXHILL<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Wednesday 28 January we were hosted  warmly at Uckfield. Results as follows: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Board       BEXHILL             Rating           UCKFIELD              Ratimg<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">    1       Andrew Fleming        1886     0-1     Arran Airlie               1927<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">     2       Janis Petersons           1837    0-1      Joseph Wright           1750<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">      3      Oliver Kuzmanoski    1630   Draw   Brian Stockham         1581<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">      4.     Lawrence Rhodes       1626    Draw  Beauden Archbold     1442      <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We had White on Boards 1 and 3. Tough matches, though hard fought as always. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Andrew came under great endgame pressure in defence of his 2nd rank. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Janis worked hard to defend against 2 disconnected pawns in a Rook endgame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oliver lost a pawn through a discovered attack in the early middlegame, but, with some isolated  pawns, achieved activity in compensation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lawry, against a rising 13-year old with a high online rating, achieved 2 bishops v 2 knights in the endgame, with a Q-side pawn majority. It was felt that opportunities to convert that advantage were missed as pawn structure was exploited by the active knights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UCKFIELD&#8212;3 -1&#8212;BEXHILL Wednesday 28 January we were hosted warmly at Uckfield. Results as follows: Board BEXHILL Rating UCKFIELD Ratimg 1 Andrew Fleming 1886 0-1 Arran Airlie 1927 2 Janis Petersons 1837 0-1 Joseph Wright 1750 3 Oliver Kuzmanoski 1630 Draw Brian Stockham 1581 4. Lawrence Rhodes 1626 Draw Beauden Archbold 1442 We had White on [&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-2506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506","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=2506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}