{"id":2683,"date":"2015-08-24T20:40:05","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T04:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/?p=2683"},"modified":"2017-05-15T16:52:46","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T00:52:46","slug":"oregon-players-sweep-vancouver-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/oregon-players-sweep-vancouver-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon players sweep Vancouver Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chess players from Oregon triumphed at the 2015 Vancouver Open<\/strong>, which took place August 22-23 at the Vancouver Red Lion Hotel at the Quay and was hosted by the Washington Chess Federation. FM Nick Raptis<\/strong> and Jason Cigan<\/strong> tied for first with 4.5\/5, topping the 35-player open section, which included 6 masters. Andrea Botez won clear first in the 47-player reserve section with 4.5\/5. Galen Pyle was the Chief TD of the event. The USCF crosstable can be found here<\/a>. Photos from the tournament taken by Rachna Soneji can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Prize winners include:<\/p>\n

Open Section:<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Raptis<\/a><\/p>\n

=1st\/2nd: Nick Raptis, Jason Cigan 4.5 $330 each<\/strong><\/p>\n

1st U2000: Faris Gulamali 3.0 $120<\/strong><\/p>\n

=1st\/2nd U1800: Eric Zhang, Jacob Mayer 2.5 $60 each<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reserve Section:<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Botez\"<\/a><\/p>\n

1st: Andrea Botez 4.5 $280<\/strong><\/p>\n

=2nd: John Acken, Dan Mathews, Mu Lin 4.0 $60 each<\/strong><\/p>\n

=1st U1600: Ari Bluffstone, Joey Yeo 3.5 $45 each<\/strong><\/p>\n

1st U1400: Henry Romero 3.5 $90<\/strong><\/p>\n

=1st U1200: David Prideaux, Andy Tien, William Nicholas 2.5 $30 each<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chess players from Oregon triumphed at the 2015 Vancouver Open, which took place August 22-23 at the Vancouver Red Lion Hotel at the Quay and was hosted by the Washington Chess Federation. FM Nick Raptis and Jason Cigan tied for first with 4.5\/5, topping the 35-player open section, which included 6 masters. Andrea Botez won […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[189,188,191,190,38,8,7,192,37,33],"class_list":["post-2683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tourn","tag-botez","tag-cigan","tag-dan-mathews","tag-galen-pyle","tag-oregon","tag-raptis","tag-sinanan","tag-vancouver-open","tag-washington-chess-federation","tag-wcf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683","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=2683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}