{"id":1107,"date":"2013-05-29T04:58:44","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T12:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2017-05-05T20:22:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T04:22:31","slug":"michael-wang-wins-washington-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/michael-wang-wins-washington-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Wang Wins Washington Open"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Michael Wang photo by Jeff Roland NWC Editor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The 2013 Washington Open was held in 4 main sections. The Open Section of 69 players finished with the top score of 5.5-0.5 by Michael Wang of Kirkland. Three players scored 5-1: Nick Raptis of Portland,\u00a0Joshua Sinanan of Brier and Yamn Tezcan of Portland.<\/p>\n

32 players took part in the Premier Section. Two players scored 5-1: Mark Saarenas and Brett Becker of Carpinteria CA.<\/p>\n

Reserve Section had 41 players with three players finishing with 5-1: Justin Yu of Shoreline,\u00a0Todd Damish and Dalton He.<\/p>\n

Booster Section had 57 players and Gilbert Lomboy topped the group with 5.5-0.5. At 5-1 was Neil Doknjas of BC.<\/p>\n

199 players are listed on the 4 crosstables. Chief TD as usual was Fred Kleist of Seattle with assistance from Gary Dorfner of Tacoma plus others.<\/p>\n

There were several side events one of which was the Washington Blitz won by Nick Raptis 8.5-1.5. 2nd in this 20 player event was IM Ray Kaufman of CA at 7-3.
\nThe event took place May 25-27, 2013 at North Seattle Community College, sponsored by the Washington Chess Federation.<\/p>\n

CLICK HERE for USCF Crosstables.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 2013 Washington Open was held in 4 main sections. The Open Section of 69 players finished with the top score of 5.5-0.5 by Michael Wang of Kirkland. Three players scored 5-1: Nick Raptis of Portland,\u00a0Joshua Sinanan of Brier and Yamn Tezcan of Portland. 32 players took part in the Premier Section. Two players scored […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[77],"class_list":["post-1107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tourn","category-uncategorized","tag-washington-chess-federaton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}