{"id":2180,"date":"2014-08-18T16:01:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T00:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/?p=2180"},"modified":"2017-05-08T18:52:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T02:52:52","slug":"portland-cc-august-2014-quad-45-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/portland-cc-august-2014-quad-45-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland CC August 2014 Quad 45 event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Portland Chess Club<\/strong> holds a monthly quad tournament (known as a &#8220;Quad 45&#8221; because of the 45-minute time control) that usually takes place on the third Saturday of each month. This tournament is billed as a great way for new players to get introduced to the PCC and USCF-rated tournament chess as well as for seasoned veterans to battle against similarly rated opponents. The format is a 3-round quad, G\/45; d5. One section may run as a 6-player Swiss depending on the number of players.<\/p>\n<p>The August 2014 event top-rated section ended in a 2.5-point tie between <strong>Karl Stump<\/strong> and <strong>Jeff Jack Austin<\/strong> after the two players drew each other in the first round. <a title=\"PCC Aug 2014 Quad 45 crosstable\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uschess.org\/msa\/XtblMain.php?201408163072\">See the USCF crosstable<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more details on this monthly tournament, see the <a title=\"PCC website\" href=\"http:\/\/pdxchess.org\/\">PCC website<\/a> or the NWC calendar pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Chess Club holds a monthly quad tournament (known as a &#8220;Quad 45&#8221; because of the 45-minute time control) that usually takes place on the third Saturday of each month. This tournament is billed as a great way for new players to get introduced to the PCC and USCF-rated tournament chess as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143,5],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-2180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ta","category-tourn","tag-portland-chess-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}