{"id":3047,"date":"2026-10-22T11:57:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T11:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/?p=3047"},"modified":"2026-10-22T15:00:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T15:00:57","slug":"hastings-u-1900-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/10\/22\/hastings-u-1900-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Hastings u-1900 Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Editor<\/em>&#8211;  <em>Bexhill club members recently enjoyed a great tournament at our neighbour club and performed well, as is clear from <strong>Bill Tracey&#8217;<\/strong>s report below. Relations between the clubs, always friendly, are cemented by such  welcome initiatives  ( pic below from last year&#8217;s friendly match v Hastings featuring  this tournament&#8217;s controller, Marc Bryant , looking at camera, at their historic club venue) :<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/f764313a-24f5-471d-994e-58dbeffb4f72.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2254\" style=\"width:601px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/f764313a-24f5-471d-994e-58dbeffb4f72.jpg 320w, https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/f764313a-24f5-471d-994e-58dbeffb4f72-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8221; Three Bexhill members entered the  u1900 weekend tournament at the Hastings club  on Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th October,  these being Andrew Fleming, Michael Hayward and myself.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Michael ended the 5-round tournament with 2 points ( one win, 2 losses,  a draw and a half point bye)\u00a0but this hides the fact that he was involved in some really hard fought matches , 2 of which lasted just short of 4 hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Andrew and I finished on 3 points . We played each other in the first round in a game that lasted 4 hours. I offered a draw after 75 moves in what I thought was a certain draw. Andrew had other ideas and 10 moves later I resigned! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Overall, Andrew won 2 ,lost 1, drew 2. He also had perhaps the game of the tournament winning with a double piece sacrifice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> I lost one,  drew one , won two and got a half point bye. I was pleased and surprised to be awarded a rating prize by Marc Bryant the organiser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We would recommend this event as it is local, well run and held in a friendly atmosphere.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Editor <\/em>:<em>We should look out for more such opportunities for tournament play at Hastings , at middle-range ratings.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8211; Bexhill club members recently enjoyed a great tournament at our neighbour club and performed well, as is clear from Bill Tracey&#8217;s report below. Relations between the clubs, always friendly, are cemented by such welcome initiatives ( pic below from last year&#8217;s friendly match v Hastings featuring this tournament&#8217;s controller, Marc Bryant , looking at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047","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=3047"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3050,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047\/revisions\/3050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}