{"id":1387,"date":"2026-02-13T21:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T21:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/?p=1387"},"modified":"2026-02-13T21:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T21:25:09","slug":"culcheth-players-represent-warrington-at-4ncl-rounds-5-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/13\/culcheth-players-represent-warrington-at-4ncl-rounds-5-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Culcheth Players represent Warrington at 4NCL &#8211; Rounds 5 &amp; 6"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>by Steve Potter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"248\" src=\"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-1-1024x248.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-1-1024x248.png 1024w, https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-1-300x73.png 300w, https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-1-768x186.png 768w, https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-1-1200x291.png 1200w, https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-1.png 1257w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Going into the 3 rd weekend at Coventry the Mates were 6th in the table.<br>Saturday was a match against the Welsh team Rhyfelwyr Essyllwg, lower than The Mates in the table, but with a stronger team on paper.<br>As has happened on every Saturday so far this season, The Mates lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"531\" height=\"157\" src=\"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image.png 531w, https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-300x89.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 531px) 85vw, 531px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The evening meal was at the hotel. The Mates have eaten there before and it was as good this time as it was last time. There\u2019s been to some interesting evening meal venues in Coventry, but still there\u2019s no go to option yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Sunday: The Mates needed to bounce back against Ashfield. Again The Mates were out graded as a team, but only by 8 points. As per every Sunday this season the bounce back happened. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 5 -1 win maybe flattered us, but a one in the win column, is a one in the<br>win column, there\u2019s no points in chess for artistic interpretation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"586\" height=\"162\" src=\"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-1.png 586w, https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-1-300x83.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 586px) 85vw, 586px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>That leaves The Mates with an important question. Why is there a 0\/3 score on<br>Saturdays, yet a 3\/3 score on Sundays?<br>The table leaves The Mates in 5 th place, well above the bottom team, but with a large number of teams only 1 point behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"442\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-2.png 442w, https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-2-254x300.png 254w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 442px) 85vw, 442px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Steve Potter Going into the 3 rd weekend at Coventry the Mates were 6th in the table.Saturday was a match against the Welsh team Rhyfelwyr Essyllwg, lower than The Mates in the table, but with a stronger team on paper.As has happened on every Saturday so far this season, The Mates lost. The evening &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/13\/culcheth-players-represent-warrington-at-4ncl-rounds-5-6\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Culcheth Players represent Warrington at 4NCL &#8211; Rounds 5 &amp; 6&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1387"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1395,"href":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions\/1395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}