{"id":2588,"date":"2025-03-05T01:35:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T01:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/necl.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2588"},"modified":"2026-03-12T14:01:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T14:01:58","slug":"2025-local-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/necl.org.uk\/wordpress\/2025-local-events\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Local Events"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Sunday 27th April \u2013 Essex Megafinal 2025<br>Colchester County High School for Girls, CO3 3US<\/strong><br>Open to all juniors born after 31-Aug-2006.<br>An official UK Chess Challenge qualifying Event for the Gigafinals.<br>Sections: U8, U10, U12, U14 and U18.<br>Six rounds ECF rated rapid games of 15 minutes for each player +10 second increments.<br>Further details: Read\/download the document\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/necl.org.uk\/docs\/Essex%20Megafinal%20-%20Colchester%20-%2027%20Apr%202025%20-%202pps.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/necl.org.uk\/docs\/Essex%20Megafinal%20-%20Colchester%20-%2019%20May%202024%20-%202pps\">.<\/a><br><br><strong>Saturday 18<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0and Sunday 19<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0October 2025 \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\">website<\/a>\u00a0for more detail and entry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday 27th April \u2013 Essex Megafinal 2025Colchester County High School for Girls, CO3 3USOpen to all juniors born after 31-Aug-2006.An official UK Chess Challenge qualifying Event for the Gigafinals.Sections: U8, U10, U12, U14 and U18.Six rounds ECF rated rapid games &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/necl.org.uk\/wordpress\/2025-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-2588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/necl.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588","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=2588"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/necl.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2595,"href":"https:\/\/necl.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588\/revisions\/2595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/necl.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/necl.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/necl.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}