{"id":3954,"date":"2026-02-03T09:52:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T09:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wdclchess.org.uk\/blog\/?post_type=news&#038;p=3954"},"modified":"2026-02-03T09:52:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T09:52:53","slug":"rock-and-bidgood-cup-semis","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.wdclchess.org.uk\/blog\/news\/rock-and-bidgood-cup-semis\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock and Bidgood Cup Semis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Please find below the draw for the 4th round of the Rock Cup and Bidgood Trophy and you have until the&nbsp;<strong>8 March 2026<\/strong>&nbsp;to arrange and play your next match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is important to note that the player with&nbsp;<strong>BLACK plays at HOME<\/strong>&nbsp;and is responsible for arranging the date and venue of the game by 10 February 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can do this using the contact details I will share in a separate email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have copied the rules below for you to consult and if you have any questions please contact me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please let me know as soon as you have agreed a date and as soon as you have a result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please allow time for a replay in the event of a draw in the first game (we have had a number of these in round three).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Rock Cup round 4<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Rock Cup round 4<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Black (home)<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>White (away)<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Will Vout<\/td><td>Simon Dighton<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Daniel Jones<\/td><td>Ian Emery<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Bidgood round 4<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Bidgood round 4<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Black (home)<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>White (away)<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Mike Cash<\/td><td>Albert Chacko<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Steve Tyler<\/td><td>Iain Kings<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Good luck everyone<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>Posted on behalf of <strong>Will Vout<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please find below the draw for the 4th round of the Rock Cup and Bidgood Trophy and you have until the&nbsp;8 March 2026&nbsp;to arrange and play your next match. It is important to note that the player with&nbsp;BLACK plays at &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wdclchess.org.uk\/blog\/news\/rock-and-bidgood-cup-semis\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rock and Bidgood Cup Semis<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[33,32],"news-category":[],"class_list":["post-3954","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","tag-bidgood-trophy","tag-rock-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wdclchess.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/3954","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=3954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wdclchess.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/3954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3955,"href":"https:\/\/www.wdclchess.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/3954\/revisions\/3955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wdclchess.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wdclchess.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3954"},{"taxonomy":"news-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wdclchess.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-category?post=3954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}