{"id":2523,"date":"2026-02-06T13:34:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T13:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/?p=2523"},"modified":"2026-02-06T13:34:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T13:34:04","slug":"division-1-defeat-at-brighton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/division-1-defeat-at-brighton\/","title":{"rendered":"Division 1 defeat at Brighton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-accent-background-color has-background has-larger-font-size\">Brighton &amp; Hove 1 &#8212; 3.5 -0.5 &#8212;Bexhill 2<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lms.englishchess.org.uk\/lms\/event\/9150\/fixtures\">Division 1<\/a>&nbsp;Mon 2nd Feb 2026 00:00 Winner: Home&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Result from Sussex League LMS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th>Board<\/th><th>Rating<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\">Brighton &amp; Hove 1<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">V<\/th><th>Bexhill 2<\/th><th>Rating<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>1&nbsp;<\/td><td>2236<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lms.englishchess.org.uk\/lms\/player\/20541\/view\">Rutherford, Luke E<\/a>N<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">1 &#8211; 0<\/td><td>G&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lms.englishchess.org.uk\/lms\/player\/106215\/view\">Hubbard, Michael<\/a><\/td><td>1916<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2&nbsp;<\/td><td>2191<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lms.englishchess.org.uk\/lms\/player\/14356\/view\">Brewer, Callum D<\/a>G<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">1 &#8211; 0<\/td><td>G&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lms.englishchess.org.uk\/lms\/player\/108861\/view\">Lumsden, James<\/a><\/td><td>1914<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>3&nbsp;<\/td><td>2127<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lms.englishchess.org.uk\/lms\/player\/14368\/view\">Rogacewicz, Mikolaj<\/a>B<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">\u00bd &#8211; \u00bd<\/td><td>G&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lms.englishchess.org.uk\/lms\/player\/14460\/view\">Fleming, Andrew SJ<\/a><\/td><td>1871<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>4&nbsp;<\/td><td>1931<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lms.englishchess.org.uk\/lms\/player\/14329\/view\">Batchelor, Paul A<\/a>G<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">1 &#8211; 0<\/td><td>G&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lms.englishchess.org.uk\/lms\/player\/73885\/view\">Hayward, Michael<\/a><\/td><td>1584<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Average<\/td><td>2122<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\"><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">3\u00bd &#8211; \u00bd<\/td><td><\/td><td>1822<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With a major disparity in ratings, the result &#8211; for our 2nd team&#8217;s first season in the top division &#8211; is foreseeable against the strongest teams such as Brighton. On the face of it, without a match report  from team members, Andrew looks to have done very well to achieve a draw. Our thanks to Brighton for hosting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With 4 matches outstanding, the team still has chances of staying up, being placed 3rd from the bottom of the table, just above East Grinstead followed by Crowborough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brighton &amp; Hove 1 &#8212; 3.5 -0.5 &#8212;Bexhill 2 Division 1&nbsp;Mon 2nd Feb 2026 00:00 Winner: Home&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Result from Sussex League LMS Board Rating Brighton &amp; Hove 1 V Bexhill 2 Rating 1&nbsp; 2236 Rutherford, Luke EN 1 &#8211; 0 G&nbsp;Hubbard, Michael 1916 2&nbsp; 2191 Brewer, Callum DG 1 &#8211; 0 G&nbsp;Lumsden, James 1914 3&nbsp; [&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-2523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523","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=2523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}