{"id":3063,"date":"2026-11-04T10:36:29","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T10:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/?p=3063"},"modified":"2026-11-04T10:39:22","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T10:39:22","slug":"60-years-of-chess-rivalry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/60-years-of-chess-rivalry\/","title":{"rendered":"60 years of chess rivalry &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-accent-3-color has-text-color has-link-color has-x-large-font-size wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\">GORDON CUP PRESENTATION<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A chess- playing rivalry going back 60 years to school chess club at  Grove School reached its peak as the final elimination round of the Gordon Cup was played out last month. Pictured below is runner-up David Slidell receiving his award from Chairman Bill Tracey yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"715\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-715x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3064\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-715x1024.png 715w, https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-209x300.png 209w, https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-767x1099.png 767w, https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-1073x1536.png 1073w, https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-1430x2048.png 1430w, https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-scaled.png 1788w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 715px) 100vw, 715px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-x-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">And, of course, below , the winner, David Pratt, who is delighted to have finally clinched the trophy after 10 years of battling in this championship section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">( <em>epic stuff, as long as the Trojan War!<\/em>) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"634\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-1-634x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3066\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-1-634x1024.png 634w, https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-1-186x300.png 186w, https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-1-768x1240.png 768w, https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-1-951x1536.png 951w, https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-1-1268x2048.png 1268w, https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/image-1-scaled.png 1585w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">David and David remain the best of friends and are keen competitors on most Tuesday sessions where there is generally our highest level of regular club attendance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GORDON CUP PRESENTATION A chess- playing rivalry going back 60 years to school chess club at Grove School reached its peak as the final elimination round of the Gordon Cup was played out last month. Pictured below is runner-up David Slidell receiving his award from Chairman Bill Tracey yesterday. And, of course, below , the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3063","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=3063"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3068,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3063\/revisions\/3068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}