{"id":3832,"date":"2025-10-20T16:46:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T16:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wdclchess.org.uk\/blog\/?post_type=news&#038;p=3832"},"modified":"2025-10-20T16:46:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T16:46:40","slug":"wolverhampton-chess-club-xmas-blitz","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.wdclchess.org.uk\/blog\/news\/wolverhampton-chess-club-xmas-blitz\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolves Xmas Blitz &#8211; 8th Dec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wolverhampton Chess Club will be hosting its annual Xmas Blitz on 8th Dec 2025. Everyone Welcome!<br \/>\nEntry Fee: \u00a33<br \/>\nPrizes:<br \/>\n1st Prize: 50%<br \/>\n2nd Prize: 30%<br \/>\nRating Bracket 1: 10%<br \/>\nRating Bracket 2: 10%<br \/>\nRating bracket 1 will be up to the lowest 1\/3 of participating players.<br \/>\nGrading bracket 2 will be up to 2\/3.<br \/>\nRating:<br \/>\nAll games will be rated.<br \/>\nECF Bronze (or above) Membership Required.<br \/>\nDecember Blitz ratings will be used.<br \/>\nRounds: 10<br \/>\nTime Control: 3min + 2sec<br \/>\nRules:<br \/>\nAll standard blitz rules will apply.<br \/>\n(A player may claim one extra minute of time for the first illegal move, the second illegal move loses the game)<\/p>\n<p>Link to website <a href=\"https:\/\/wolverhamptonchess.club\/Christmas-Blitz\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Posted on behalf of<br \/>\nPhil Bull<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wolverhampton Chess Club will be hosting its annual Xmas Blitz on 8th Dec 2025. Everyone Welcome! Entry Fee: \u00a33 Prizes: 1st Prize: 50% 2nd Prize: 30% Rating Bracket 1: 10% Rating Bracket 2: 10% Rating bracket 1 will be up &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wdclchess.org.uk\/blog\/news\/wolverhampton-chess-club-xmas-blitz\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wolves Xmas Blitz &#8211; 8th Dec<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[69,24],"news-category":[],"class_list":["post-3832","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","tag-blitz","tag-congress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wdclchess.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/3832","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=3832"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wdclchess.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/3832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3834,"href":"https:\/\/www.wdclchess.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/3832\/revisions\/3834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wdclchess.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wdclchess.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3832"},{"taxonomy":"news-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wdclchess.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-category?post=3832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}