{"id":2502,"date":"2024-05-03T10:09:31","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T09:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/necl.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2502"},"modified":"2026-03-12T01:07:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T01:07:46","slug":"2024-local-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/necl.org.uk\/wordpress\/2024-local-events\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 Local Events"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Sunday 19th May &#8211; Essex Megafinal 2024<br>Colchester County High School for Girls, CO3 3US<\/strong><br>Open to all juniors born after 31-Aug-2005.<br>An official UK Chess Challenge qualifying Event for the Gigafinals.<br>Sections: U8, U10, U12, U14 and U18.<br>Six round rapid play with 15 minutes for each player and 10 seconds increment\/move.<br>Further details: Read\/download the document&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/necl.org.uk\/docs\/Essex Megafinal - Colchester - 19 May 2024 - 2pps.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/necl.org.uk\/docs\/Essex Megafinal - Colchester - 19 May 2024 - 2pps\">.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Saturday 24th August <\/strong>&#8211; <strong>3rd Brentwood Bank Holiday ECF Rapid Play Tournament<\/strong><br><strong>Wessex Auditorium, Brentwood Senior School, Middleton Hall Lane,<\/strong><br><strong>Brentwood, Essex, CM15 8EE<\/strong><br>Open to Adults and Juniors. Time Control: 20+5.<br>Sections: Open, Minor (below ECF 1200 rapid play rating)<br>Details and online registration at <a href=\"https:\/\/britishchess.co.uk\/events\/\">https:\/<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/britishchess.co.uk\/events\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\/britishchess.co.uk\/events\/<\/a><br><br><strong>Saturday 19<sup>th\u00a0<\/sup>and Sunday 20<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0October 2024 \u2013 Bury St Edmunds Chess Congres<\/strong>s<br><strong>Moreton Hall Community Centre, Symonds Road, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP32\u00a07EE<\/strong><br>A 5 round Swiss Tournament with 4 sections \u2013<br>Open, Major (u1900), Inter (u1700) and Minor (u1500).<br>Rate of play: All moves in 90 minutes plus 15 seconds per move from move 1.<br>See\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bsecongress.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">website<\/a>\u00a0for more details and entry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday 19th May &#8211; Essex Megafinal 2024Colchester County High School for Girls, CO3 3USOpen to all juniors born after 31-Aug-2005.An official UK Chess Challenge qualifying Event for the Gigafinals.Sections: U8, U10, U12, U14 and U18.Six round rapid play with 15 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/necl.org.uk\/wordpress\/2024-local-events\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/necl.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/necl.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/necl.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/necl.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/necl.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2502"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/necl.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2586,"href":"https:\/\/necl.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions\/2586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/necl.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/necl.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/necl.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}