{"id":2591,"date":"2026-02-12T13:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T13:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/necl.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2591"},"modified":"2026-05-10T17:11:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T16:11:14","slug":"2026-local-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/necl.org.uk\/wordpress\/2026-local-events\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Local Events"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Saturday 21st  February 2026 &#8211; The Colchester Rapidplay\u00a0<br>Chess Championship 2026<br>Moot Hall, Colchester Town Hall<\/strong><br>6-Round Open ECF rated Rapidplay (15m+5s\/move) Swiss tournament open to all who meet the conditions of entry. The Mayor\u2019s Colchester Rapidplay Chess Championship Trophy will be awarded, however, only to the highest placed player from Colchester.<br>Further details: <a href=\"https:\/\/congress.org.uk\/congress\/724\/home\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sunday 31st May &#8211; Essex Megafinal 2026<br>Colchester County High School for Girls, CO3 3US<\/strong><br>6 rounds ECF rated rapid games (15m+10s\/move). Open to all juniors born after 31\/08\/2007, 5 sections (U8, U10, U12, U14, U18). All players finishing the top half of the final standings will qualify for the next stage \u2013 Gigafinals.<br>Further details: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/Essex-MF-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday 21st February 2026 &#8211; The Colchester Rapidplay\u00a0Chess Championship 2026Moot Hall, Colchester Town Hall6-Round Open ECF rated Rapidplay (15m+5s\/move) Swiss tournament open to all who meet the conditions of entry. The Mayor\u2019s Colchester Rapidplay Chess Championship Trophy will be awarded, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/necl.org.uk\/wordpress\/2026-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":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/necl.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591","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=2591"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/necl.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2659,"href":"https:\/\/necl.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions\/2659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/necl.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/necl.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/necl.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}