{"id":3807,"date":"2025-10-06T09:29:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T09:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wdclchess.org.uk\/blog\/?post_type=news&#038;p=3807"},"modified":"2025-10-06T09:36:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T09:36:47","slug":"rock-cup-draw-2025-26","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.wdclchess.org.uk\/blog\/news\/rock-cup-draw-2025-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock Cup draw 2025\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please find below the draw for the 1st round of the Rock Cup and you have until the 2 November 2025 to arrange and play your next match. It is important to note that the player with BLACK plays at HOME and is responsible for arranging the date and venue of the game. You can do this using the contact details I will share in a separate email.<\/p>\n<pre>Rock Cup round 1\nBlack (home) \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0White (away)\nJoe Rhodes \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Simon Dighton\nIan Emery \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Mike Cash\nAlbert Chacko \u00a0 \u00a0 Nicholas Fallowfield\nPhil Maybury \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Chris Stallard\nBarry Smith \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Jon Turner\nWill Vout \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Tony Meakin\nSteve Tyler \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 David Waud\nJohn Varilone \u00a0 \u00a0 Dave Hodkinson\nJohn Lewis \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Iain Kings\nDaniel Jones \u00a0 \u00a0  Vic Brown\nIan Moczadlo \u00a0 \u00a0  Andrew Snell<\/pre>\n<p>This is a knockout competition, but the first round losers go into the Bidgood Trophy so everyone should get at least 2 games.<br \/>\nGood luck everyone<br \/>\nPosted on behalf of<br \/>\nWill Vout<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please find below the draw for the 1st round of the Rock Cup and you have until the 2 November 2025 to arrange and play your next match. It is important to note that the player with BLACK plays at &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wdclchess.org.uk\/blog\/news\/rock-cup-draw-2025-26\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rock Cup draw 2025\/26<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[32],"news-category":[],"class_list":["post-3807","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","tag-rock-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wdclchess.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/3807","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=3807"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wdclchess.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/3807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3816,"href":"https:\/\/www.wdclchess.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/3807\/revisions\/3816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wdclchess.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wdclchess.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3807"},{"taxonomy":"news-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wdclchess.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-category?post=3807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}