{"id":1839,"date":"2014-02-19T23:59:11","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T07:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/?p=1839"},"modified":"2017-05-06T21:59:09","modified_gmt":"2017-05-07T05:59:09","slug":"presidents-cup-result","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/presidents-cup-result\/","title":{"rendered":"President&#8217;s Cup Result"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1842\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1842\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/PresCupA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1842\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/PresCupA.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Duane Polich.\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/PresCupA.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/PresCupA-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/PresCupA-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1842\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Duane Polich.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Duane Polich <\/strong>reports on Facebook: (edited and additional info by Russell Miller)<\/p>\n<p>The Washington State President&#8217;s Cup took place February 15th and 16th at the Seattle Chess Club. 68 players took part. The event ended in a three way tie for first. <strong>Peter Lessler <\/strong>of Seattle , <strong>Samuel He <\/strong>of Redmond, WA and <strong>Patrick Van Dyke <\/strong>of Maple Valley, WA each ended up with 3.5 points. Samuel He came out on top and took the seed into the 2015 Premier event by coming out on top in a grueling blitz playoff match that went into double overtime. The event was held as a replacement for the Invitational tournament, so more people could watch the State Championship and Premier which was going on at the same time.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"crosstable\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uschess.org\/msa\/XtblMain.php?201402165372\">CLICK HERE<\/a> for USCF Crosstable.<\/p>\n<p>There are more pictures on the Facebook post, <a title=\"photos\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.744545695569662.1073741830.173076032716634&amp;type=1\">CLICK HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duane Polich reports on Facebook: (edited and additional info by Russell Miller) The Washington State President&#8217;s Cup took place February 15th and 16th at the Seattle Chess Club. 68 players took part. The event ended in a three way tie for first. Peter Lessler of Seattle , Samuel He of Redmond, WA and Patrick Van [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-1839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tourn","tag-washington-chess-federation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839","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=1839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}