{"id":2210,"date":"2014-10-14T19:30:17","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T03:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/?p=2210"},"modified":"2017-05-08T19:11:48","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T03:11:48","slug":"bc-players-tie-for-first-at-portland-fall-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/bc-players-tie-for-first-at-portland-fall-open\/","title":{"rendered":"BC players tie for first at Portland Fall Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two British Columbia chess players,\u00a0<strong>Bindi Cheng<\/strong> and <strong>(Isaac) Joe Roback<\/strong>, tied for first place at the Portland Chess Club Fall Open October 11-12, also celebrating National Chess Day in the U.S. Each scored 4 out of 5 possible points. (See the <a title=\"Portland Fall Open crosstable\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uschess.org\/msa\/XtblMain.php?201410123102\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">USCF crosstable<\/a> for details.) This is hardly surprising for Cheng, rated about USCF 2500 (higher than anyone who normally plays in Portland), but was a big success for Roback, who raised his USCF rating from 1923 to 2031. Two additional BC players also did well with 3 points, while Oregon and Washington players tied for the 3rd-5th place positions with 3.5 points. In the Reserve section, Oregon player <strong>Kian Patel<\/strong> took a clear first place with 4 of 5 points.<\/p>\n<p>Oregon state champion <strong>Nick Raptis<\/strong> competed in a separate and exciting six-game match against Washington state champion <strong>Nat Koons<\/strong>, which ended in a 3-3 tie. A match report with games will appear in a future edition of <em>Northwest Chess.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two British Columbia chess players,\u00a0Bindi Cheng and (Isaac) Joe Roback, tied for first place at the Portland Chess Club Fall Open October 11-12, also celebrating National Chess Day in the U.S. Each scored 4 out of 5 possible points. (See the USCF crosstable for details.) This is hardly surprising for Cheng, rated about USCF 2500 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[157,26],"class_list":["post-2210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tourn","tag-british-columbia-chess","tag-portland-chess-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210","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=2210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}