{"id":3379,"date":"2024-11-06T14:54:27","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T14:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdclchess.org.uk\/blog\/?post_type=news&#038;p=3379"},"modified":"2024-11-06T14:55:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T14:55:00","slug":"wolves-xmas-blitz-18th-dec","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.wdclchess.org.uk\/blog\/news\/wolves-xmas-blitz-18th-dec\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolves Xmas Blitz 18th Dec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wolverhampton welcome all players to their Christmas Blitz Event. Entry is open to all players in the Wolverhampton and neighbouring leagues.<\/p>\n<p>Venue: Forty Four Club, Spring Rd, Wolverhampton, WV4 6LQ<br \/>\nStart Time: 7.30<br \/>\nDate: Wednesday 18th December 2024<\/p>\n<p>Entry Fee: \u00c2\u00a33<br \/>\nPrizes:<br \/>\n1st Prize: 35%<br \/>\n2nd Prize: 25%<br \/>\nGrading Bracket 1: 10%<br \/>\nGrading Bracket 2: 10%<br \/>\nGrading Bracket 3: 10%<br \/>\nGrading Bracket 4: 10%<br \/>\nGrading bracket 1 will be up to the lowest 1\/5 of participating players. Grading bracket 2 will be up to 2\/5. Grading bracket 3 up to 3\/5. Grading bracket 4 up to 4\/5.<br \/>\nTime Control: 3m + 2s (9rds) <\/p>\n<p>Grades will be determined using the December grading list and blitz\/rapidplay grades will be used wherever possible although provisional \u00e2\u20ac\u0153p\u00e2\u20ac\u009d grades will be ignored.<br \/>\nRules:<br \/>\nAll standard blitz rules will apply with the following exception, on the first 2 occasions if one player makes an illegal move, the opponent may stop the clocks and claim 1 minute. On the 3rd occasion that player loses the game.<\/p>\n<p>Posted on behalf of<br \/>\nPhil Bull<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wolverhampton welcome all players to their Christmas Blitz Event. Entry is open to all players in the Wolverhampton and neighbouring leagues. Venue: Forty Four Club, Spring Rd, Wolverhampton, WV4 6LQ Start Time: 7.30 Date: Wednesday 18th December 2024 Entry Fee: &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wdclchess.org.uk\/blog\/news\/wolves-xmas-blitz-18th-dec\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wolves Xmas Blitz 18th Dec<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[24],"news-category":[],"class_list":["post-3379","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","tag-congress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wdclchess.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/3379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wdclchess.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wdclchess.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wdclchess.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wdclchess.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wdclchess.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/3379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3381,"href":"https:\/\/www.wdclchess.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/3379\/revisions\/3381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wdclchess.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wdclchess.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3379"},{"taxonomy":"news-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wdclchess.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-category?post=3379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}