{"id":2637,"date":"2026-03-21T09:59:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T09:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/?p=2637"},"modified":"2026-03-21T09:59:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T09:59:41","slug":"facing-the-best-in-sussex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/facing-the-best-in-sussex\/","title":{"rendered":"Facing the best in Sussex"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-accent-background-color has-background has-larger-font-size\">Bexhill 1 &#8212;1.5-2.5&#8212; Brighton &amp; Hove 1<\/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;Fri 20th Mar 2026 00:00 Winner: Away&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\">Bexhill 1<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">V<\/th><th>Brighton &amp; Hove 1<\/th><th>Rating<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>1&nbsp;<\/td><td>2062<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lms.englishchess.org.uk\/lms\/player\/14472\/view\">Tebbs, Howard L<\/a>B<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">0 &#8211; 1<\/td><td>G&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lms.englishchess.org.uk\/lms\/player\/14356\/view\">Brewer, Callum D<\/a><\/td><td>2215<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2&nbsp;<\/td><td>1976<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lms.englishchess.org.uk\/lms\/player\/73472\/view\">Chapman, Luke<\/a>G<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">1 &#8211; 0<\/td><td>N&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lms.englishchess.org.uk\/lms\/player\/20541\/view\">Rutherford, Luke E<\/a><\/td><td>2248<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>3&nbsp;<\/td><td>1904<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lms.englishchess.org.uk\/lms\/player\/106215\/view\">Hubbard, Michael<\/a>G<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">0 &#8211; 1<\/td><td>B&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lms.englishchess.org.uk\/lms\/player\/14331\/view\">Denman, Brian J<\/a><\/td><td>2050<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>4&nbsp;<\/td><td>1883<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lms.englishchess.org.uk\/lms\/player\/14460\/view\">Fleming, Andrew SJ<\/a>G<\/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\/14329\/view\">Batchelor, Paul A<\/a><\/td><td>1910<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Average<\/td><td>1957<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-right\" data-align=\"right\"><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">1\u00bd &#8211; 2\u00bd<\/td><td><\/td><td>2106<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The intensity of competition, at this  high level of chess skill, at this late stage of the season, was apparent last night as our 1st team hosted Brighton &amp; Hove 1st team. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The outcome places the latter as clear Division 1 leaders as we go into the final matches to be played through the next few weeks. ( <em>Follow the link on our Sussex League page<\/em> )  Despite the match score, our team looks to be safe to stay up in Division 1 next year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The points made in this match are testimony to our whole team&#8217;s determination., and extracted maximum value with  the White pieces.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>It has to be said &#8211; <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-larger-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Luke&#8217;s achievement on Board 2 is outstanding ! <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bexhill 1 &#8212;1.5-2.5&#8212; Brighton &amp; Hove 1 Division 1&nbsp;Fri 20th Mar 2026 00:00 Winner: Away&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Result from Sussex League LMS Board Rating Bexhill 1 V Brighton &amp; Hove 1 Rating 1&nbsp; 2062 Tebbs, Howard LB 0 &#8211; 1 G&nbsp;Brewer, Callum D 2215 2&nbsp; 1976 Chapman, LukeG 1 &#8211; 0 N&nbsp;Rutherford, Luke E 2248 3&nbsp; 1904 [&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-2637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637","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=2637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}