{"id":708,"date":"2023-03-07T15:10:45","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T15:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/?p=708"},"modified":"2023-03-07T15:10:45","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T15:10:45","slug":"hosting-haywards-heath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/03\/07\/hosting-haywards-heath\/","title":{"rendered":"Hosting Haywards Heath"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/0342045D-DC18-4159-84A2-7CDF62B831C7-1024x768.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-709\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Match report from our captain Bill Tracey:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Friday 3rd March, Bexhill 2 hosted Haywards Heath 1 in Division 2 of The Mid Sussex league.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was always going to be a big challenge as their number 1 player is currently the highest ranked player in all 3 Mid Sussex Leagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As it turned out we were out rated by just over a 1000 points across the top 3 boards!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">John on board 2 was first to finish. He played a very exciting attacking game and presented his opponent with many challenges but in the end John had to concede defeat when faced with an impossible end game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Steve Merchant played exceptionally well on board 3 and managed to go into the end game completely level. As so often in a pawn endgame one wrong move can be crucial and unfortunately Steve made the one error that decided the outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On board 3, Michael Hayward making just his second appearance for the club played a splendid game and had his opponent on the backfoot from very early on. He maintained the pressure and eventually forced a resignation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leo had the ultimate challenge on board one, and to his credit made his illustrious opponent work very hard for his victory. By the end his opponent had only 4 minutes left on his clock, but Leo was in an impossible position and had to resign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The final score of 3 to 1 does not reflect how how well the team played against such a strong team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Match report from our captain Bill Tracey: On Friday 3rd March, Bexhill 2 hosted Haywards Heath 1 in Division 2 of The Mid Sussex league. This was always going to be a big challenge as their number 1 player is currently the highest ranked player in all 3 Mid Sussex Leagues. As it turned out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-midsussexleague"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708","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=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}