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Division 3<\/a> Mon 20th Apr 2026 00:00 Winner: Away <\/p>\n\n\n\n Data from Sussex League LMS<\/p>\n\n\n\n A very good result at Brighton on Monday- teams evenly matched. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Oliver<\/strong> did well, after an ambitious Wing Gambit in the Sicilian, when, in pursuit of active play, he lost some further material. However, with N + 4 pawns v R + 3 pawns- all pawns on the same wing – Oliver was relaxed about showing it was a draw. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Janis <\/strong>went into a late middlegame with 2 Bishops v a R and P. Once both bishops were activated, he was able to demonstrate their combined power. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I didn’t get to follow Phil’s <\/strong>game, being occupied on bottom board! <\/p>\n\n\n\n There, after going the full distance, I had a N v B endgame. White was able to pick off my h-pawn , with his King ( which was thereby de-centralised). Meanwhile I had played to fix White’s isolated Q-side pawns, on the white squares, with mine on black. I masked the pawn on c4 from White’s defending white squared bishop with my N and my King picked it off. My centralised King was able to force the Bishop away from holding up my c-pawn advance. The game then resolved into a pawn race, in my opponent’s time pressure. He misplayed so that my c-pawn promoted with a tempo to spare, my Q able to prevent White’s g-pawn promoting. As time was called, the evaluation was a Black win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The outcome leaves a strange position where Brighton’s 4th team is now placed higher than their 3rd team!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Clearly much will depend on our final fixture against Brighton 4th team this Friday 24 April, and what happens between Uckfield 1 and Brighton 4 on 27 April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Brighton & Hove 3 —1.5-2.5—V Bexhill 3 Division 3 Mon 20th Apr 2026 00:00 Winner: Away Data from Sussex League LMS Board Rating Brighton & Hove 3 V Bexhill 3 Rating 1 1882 Gupta, AdityaG 0 – 1 G Petersons, Janis 1866 2 1706 Selby, Paul RG 1 – 0 G Swain, Philip 1702 3 1699 Edwards, PaulG […]<\/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-2673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673","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=2673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Board<\/th> Rating<\/th> Brighton & Hove 3<\/th> V<\/th> Bexhill 3<\/th> Rating<\/th><\/tr><\/thead> 1 <\/td> 1882<\/td> Gupta, Aditya<\/a>G<\/td> 0 – 1<\/td> G Petersons, Janis<\/a><\/td> 1866<\/td><\/tr> 2 <\/td> 1706<\/td> Selby, Paul R<\/a>G<\/td> 1 – 0<\/td> G Swain, Philip<\/a><\/td> 1702<\/td><\/tr> 3 <\/td> 1699<\/td> Edwards, Paul<\/a>G<\/td> \u00bd – \u00bd<\/td> G Kuzmanoski, Oliver<\/a><\/td> 1664<\/td><\/tr> 4 <\/td> 1692<\/td> Counsell, Robert W<\/a>B<\/td> 0 – 1<\/td> G Rhodes, Lawrence<\/a><\/td> 1644<\/td><\/tr> Average<\/td> 1745<\/td> <\/td> 1\u00bd – 2\u00bd<\/td> <\/td> 1719<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n League table for Division 3<\/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> Hastings & St Leonards 4<\/a><\/td> 10<\/td> 6<\/td> 2<\/td> 2<\/td> 25\u00bd<\/td> 14\u00bd<\/td> 14<\/strong><\/td> 0<\/td> 0<\/td> 0<\/td><\/tr> Brighton & Hove 4<\/a><\/td> 8<\/td> 6<\/td> 1<\/td> 1<\/td> 21<\/td> 11<\/td> 13<\/strong><\/td> 0<\/td> 0<\/td> 0<\/td><\/tr> Bexhill 3<\/a><\/td> 9<\/td> 5<\/td> 2<\/td> 2<\/td> 21<\/td> 15<\/td> 12<\/strong><\/td> 0<\/td> 0<\/td> 0<\/td><\/tr> Uckfield 1<\/a><\/td> 9<\/td> 5<\/td> 1<\/td> 3<\/td> 22<\/td> 14<\/td> 11<\/strong><\/td> 0<\/td> 0<\/td> 0<\/td><\/tr> Brighton & Hove 3<\/a><\/td> 10<\/td> 5<\/td> 0<\/td> 5<\/td> 20\u00bd<\/td> 19\u00bd<\/td> 10<\/strong><\/td> 0<\/td> 0<\/td> 0<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n