Division 4<\/a> Fri 6th Mar 2026 00:00 Winner: Home <\/p>\n\n\n\n Results and Revised League Table from Sussex League LMS. For full details please go to our SUSSEX LEAGUE page on this site and click on he link. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n A good all-round performance emerged from our 5th team on Friday 6 March as we hosted Haywards Heath 3rd team.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n It was a remarkable debut – not just for the club but also as a first Standard Play game over the board – from Geoffrey Veale<\/strong>. He played a heavy pieces + B v N middlegame through to endgame, with his K still on e1, activating his R via h1- h4 to the Q-side exploiting a fragility in Black’s castled Q-side to pick up a N, followed by more pawns. It was cool and careful play. Welcome and well done Geoffrey!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bill continued his solid scoring, using active pressure with a double rooks’ battery on the d-file. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I didn’t get to see much of Jo’s game, clearly the crucial win, on top board with the Black pieces. Congratulations, Jo! ( Game scores always welcome from players afterwards for analysis and publication on the website) <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n In the final game to finish, Lawry (your editor<\/em>) spotted an opportunity to pick off a N, for a pawn, to stymie an oncoming K-side attack, at the expense of a broken pawn structure in front of his King. Choosing not to take a 2nd pawn as some compensation, instead his opponent pushed on with the attack with a Q on h6 trying to intimidate, as if the N had been a sacrifice, but the mating options were covered against just a Q & the remaining N. Among a variety of tactical options in a counter-attack, Lawry settled on exchanging pieces and simplified to a won ending, a piece plus eventually 2 pawns up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Our position in the Division 4 League Table currently speaks for itself :<\/p>\n\n\n\n The deciding match will be on 17 March when we travel to Lewes to play their 2nd team. It may be the 4th Division , but all points are hard-fought on both sides and if we get through it shows that with 5 teams in the Sussex League, we have strength in depth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bexhill 5 —3.5 – 0.5— Haywards Heath 3 Division 4 Fri 6th Mar 2026 00:00 Winner: Home Results and Revised League Table from Sussex League LMS. For full details please go to our SUSSEX LEAGUE page on this site and click on he link. A good all-round performance emerged from our 5th team on Friday 6 […]<\/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-2607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607","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=2607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Board<\/th> Rating<\/th> Bexhill 5<\/th> V<\/th> Haywards Heath 3<\/th> Rating<\/th><\/tr><\/thead> 1 <\/td> 1669<\/td> Carthew, Jo<\/a>B<\/td> 1 – 0<\/td> G Rattray, Roland<\/a><\/td> 1529<\/td><\/tr> 2 <\/td> 1670<\/td> Luxton, William H<\/a>G<\/td> \u00bd – \u00bd<\/td> G File, Matthew<\/a><\/td> 1508<\/td><\/tr> 3 <\/td> 1637<\/td> Rhodes, Lawrence<\/a>G<\/td> 1 – 0<\/td> G Soni, Pujan<\/a><\/td> 1427<\/td><\/tr> 4 <\/td> 0000<\/td> Veale, Geoffrey<\/a>E<\/td> 1 – 0<\/td> B Baldry, J Chris<\/a><\/td> 1276<\/td><\/tr> Average<\/td> 1244<\/td> <\/td> 3\u00bd – \u00bd<\/td> <\/td> 1435<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n League table for Division 4<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Team<\/th> Play<\/th> Won<\/th> Draw<\/th> Lost<\/th> For<\/th> Against<\/th> Points<\/th> SP<\/th> MP<\/th> IM<\/th><\/tr><\/thead> Bexhill 5<\/a><\/td> 7<\/td> 5<\/td> 2<\/td> 0<\/td> 19\u00bd<\/td> 8\u00bd<\/td> 12<\/strong><\/td> 0<\/td> 0<\/td> 0<\/td><\/tr> Lewes 2<\/a><\/td> 7<\/td> 5<\/td> 1<\/td> 1<\/td> 19<\/td> 9<\/td> 11<\/strong><\/td> 0<\/td> 0<\/td> 0<\/td><\/tr> Worthing 3<\/a><\/td> 8<\/td> 4<\/td> 2<\/td> 2<\/td> 20\u00bd<\/td> 11\u00bd<\/td> 10<\/strong><\/td> 0<\/td> 0<\/td> 0<\/td><\/tr> Uckfield 2<\/a><\/td> 7<\/td> 3<\/td> 2<\/td> 2<\/td> 14\u00bd<\/td> 13\u00bd<\/td> 8<\/strong><\/td> 0<\/td> 0<\/td> 0<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n