{"id":2698,"date":"2015-08-30T15:23:24","date_gmt":"2015-08-30T23:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/?p=2698"},"modified":"2017-05-15T16:55:10","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T00:55:10","slug":"raptis-wins-yet-another-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/raptis-wins-yet-another-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Raptis Wins Yet Another Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1054\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1054\" style=\"width: 1467px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/PortlandChessClubSignMay2011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1054\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/PortlandChessClubSignMay2011.jpg\" alt=\"Portland Chess Club Sign\" width=\"1467\" height=\"1100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/PortlandChessClubSignMay2011.jpg 1467w, https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/PortlandChessClubSignMay2011-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/PortlandChessClubSignMay2011-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/PortlandChessClubSignMay2011-624x467.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1467px) 100vw, 1467px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1054\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portland Chess Club Sign<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Portland CC Aug G\/60 event held on August 29, 2015<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lennart Bjorksten <\/strong>reports on Facebook:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes. I was the TD, and I&#8217;m still not comfortable with the arcane nuances of submitting a tournament for rating. None of the folks who are experienced with the process were around when the tournament ended.<\/p>\n<p>The G60 will be rated this coming Tuesday, before we start the September Tuesday quads. My apologies for the delay.<\/p>\n<p>We had 31 players, so the tournament was split into two sections. The upper section was won by <strong>Nick Raptis<\/strong> with 3.5\/4, followed by <strong>Becca Lampman<\/strong>, <strong>Mike Goffe<\/strong>, and <strong>Ethan Wu<\/strong> at 3\/4. The lower section was won by <strong>Jeremy Le Grove<\/strong> with 3.5\/4, followed by <strong>Masakazu Shimada<\/strong>, <strong>Brian Berger<\/strong>, and <strong>Marcus Leung<\/strong> at 3\/4. <strong>Kushal Pai<\/strong> and <strong>Matthew Witt<\/strong> shared the U1400 prize with 2.5\/4.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uschess.org\/msa\/XtblMain.php?201508298602\">Crosstable link<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portland CC Aug G\/60 event held on August 29, 2015 Lennart Bjorksten reports on Facebook: &#8220;Yes. I was the TD, and I&#8217;m still not comfortable with the arcane nuances of submitting a tournament for rating. None of the folks who are experienced with the process were around when the tournament ended. The G60 will be [&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":[26],"class_list":["post-2698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tourn","tag-portland-chess-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698","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=2698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}