{"id":2762,"date":"2026-06-23T11:49:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T11:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/?p=2762"},"modified":"2026-06-26T15:16:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T15:16:34","slug":"blitz-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/blitz-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Blitz night!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Friday  19 June saw 18 players battle  for the Annual Blitz Tournament title <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The outright winner was Luke Chapman on 4.5\/5- pictured below receiving the trophy from Chairman Bill Tracey. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"412\" src=\"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2764\" style=\"width:476px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image.png 300w, https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-218x300.png 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">..And watch out for further successes in a decisive year for our talented star player, not only at our club, but also in the Hastings Club championship, and the forthcoming <strong>British Championship ! <\/strong>at the University of Warwick in July where he has been selected for the top section. A further article on this site will have more of the story in advance of the British.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, runners up, after a post- tournament correction of one result for Oliver Kuzmanoski , were Mark Rich and Oliver on 4\/5 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her is Mark collecting his award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"325\" height=\"489\" src=\"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2766\" style=\"width:380px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-1.png 325w, https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-1-199x300.png 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In joint 3rd place were Jonathan Mfuso (his first and undoubtedly not his last award at the club) :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"363\" height=\"510\" src=\"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2769\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-2.png 363w, https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-2-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 363px) 100vw, 363px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and Howard Tebbs, pictured below &#8211; each  on 3.5\/5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"319\" height=\"452\" src=\"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2770\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-3.png 319w, https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-3-212x300.png 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 319px) 100vw, 319px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Michael Hayward , once again providing an excellent service as tournament controller <em>( thank you Michael!) <\/em>, also managed an excellent score of 3\/5 alongside Andrew Fleming. Steve Blewitt and Lee Stewartson &#8211; also impressing on his recent emergence in club competitions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bill Luxton and Alan Ticehurst achieved a solid 2.5 \/5 .Harry Morter made 2\/5 as did Lawry Rhodes..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jon James  finished on 1.5. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bill Tracey ( after generously correcting his result with Oliver)   finished on 1\/5 , alongside Mick Sullivan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tony Nash and young  Kit Brampton ( on his very first club meeting, bravely playing 4 of the rounds) did not manage a point in this very strong field, but they both fought hard throughout and played good chess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>DON&#8217;T FORGET IT IS :<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Grand Prix 3 this Friday 26 June<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday 19 June saw 18 players battle for the Annual Blitz Tournament title The outright winner was Luke Chapman on 4.5\/5- pictured below receiving the trophy from Chairman Bill Tracey. ..And watch out for further successes in a decisive year for our talented star player, not only at our club, but also in the Hastings [&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-2762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762","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=2762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}