{"id":2331,"date":"2015-03-09T22:50:14","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T06:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/?p=2331"},"modified":"2017-05-12T19:23:40","modified_gmt":"2017-05-13T03:23:40","slug":"2015-wa-state-scholastic-chess-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/2015-wa-state-scholastic-chess-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 WA State Scholastic Chess Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<strong>2015 WA State Scholastic Chess Championships<\/strong> were held on March 7th at Interlake High School in Bellevue and on March 8th at the Seattle Chess Club in Northgate. 169 players took part in 6 sections: K-3U800, K-3U1400, 4-6U1000, 4-12U1400, K-8 U1600, and K-8 Open. The tournament was directed by David Hendricks with assistance from Josh Sinanan, Dan Mathews, Chouchan Airapetian and Duane Polich. <strong>Neo Olin<\/strong>, an 8th grader at Dimmit Middle School in Seattle, won the Open section with 5\/5 and will represent WA State at the Barber Tournament of K-8 State Champions helding concurrently with the U.S. Open in early August. \u00a0<strong>Kyle Zhang<\/strong> and <strong>Garrett Casey<\/strong> tied for 1st in\u00a0the U1600 section with 4.5\/5 each!<\/p>\n<p>The event has now been rated: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uschess.org\/msa\/XtblMain.php?201503089372.0-14779528\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">USCF crosstable<\/a>, and also see the <a title=\"NWSRS report for state scholastic championships\" href=\"http:\/\/chess.ratingsnw.com\/report14-15\/WAStateScholastic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chess Ratings Northwest report<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Top-boards-round-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2332\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Top-boards-round-4.jpg\" alt=\"Top boards round 4\" width=\"2448\" height=\"3264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Top-boards-round-4.jpg 2448w, https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Top-boards-round-4-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Top-boards-round-4-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2448px) 100vw, 2448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a02015 WA State Scholastic Chess Championships were held on March 7th at Interlake High School in Bellevue and on March 8th at the Seattle Chess Club in Northgate. 169 players took part in 6 sections: K-3U800, K-3U1400, 4-6U1000, 4-12U1400, K-8 U1600, and K-8 Open. The tournament was directed by David Hendricks with assistance from Josh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,5],"tags":[15,37],"class_list":["post-2331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scholastic","category-tourn","tag-barber","tag-washington-chess-federation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}