{"id":764,"date":"2023-03-28T20:04:03","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T20:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/?p=764"},"modified":"2023-03-28T20:04:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T20:04:03","slug":"a-visit-from-the-bookshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/03\/28\/a-visit-from-the-bookshop\/","title":{"rendered":"A visit from the bookshop."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Match report from our captain Bill Tracey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Friday 24th march Bexhill hosted East Grinstead Bookshop 1 in
a Division 2 league match.
This was a match that we needed to win to stay in the Division,
it was also a match that on paper we were favourites to win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However the match did not go well for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On board 1 Leo faced a player playing his first ever league match,
who turned out to be a very strong player and produced a very fine performance to beat Leo in 25 moves! Had Leo faced any other player that had previously played
for our visitors he would have been considered a firm favourite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On board 3 Steve Blewitt faced an opponent that it is probably fair to say that he would beat maybe 9 out of 10 times, but, unfortunately, Steve made a very uncharacteristic early error that cost a piece, and,
despite battling hard, eventually he was forced to resign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On 4 Michael played very well and had established a very strong position and was also 2 pawns up,
however he got a sequence wrong which cost him the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Kimber was playing on board 2 and was against a very useful young player. John played a fine game and eventually his opponent was forced to resign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So the final score was Bexhill 1 Bookshop 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This means that we are now relying on other results to avoid relegation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, after the match, which was our final League match of the season, John announced that he was retiring from playing League matches (unless we were ever to
be a player short for a match with no one else to play).
John played in our first ever League match in October of 2019, winning on board 2 against Uckfield so it was good to see him end his career with another win on board 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John has been an invaluable member of our teams in so many ways. Win or lose his Chess is always great to watch as he plays in such a bold attacking manner. He has on a number of occasions taken
on the role of Captain and travel organiser.
His good humour and Chess knowledge will be sorely missed on the long journeys around the County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So on behalf of the Club I would like to thank John for all that he has done to support our League
teams over the last four years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Match report from our captain Bill Tracey. On Friday 24th march Bexhill hosted East Grinstead Bookshop 1 ina Division 2 league match.This was a match that we needed to win to stay in the Division,it was also a match that on paper we were favourites to win. However the match did not go well for […]<\/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-764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764","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=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexhillchessclub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}