{"id":2784,"date":"2015-11-09T19:32:15","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T03:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/?p=2784"},"modified":"2017-05-16T20:06:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T04:06:01","slug":"washington-challengers-cup-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/washington-challengers-cup-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Challenger&#8217;s Cup Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From Washington Chess Federation Facebook page.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>GM Dmitry Skorchenko<\/strong> and <strong>LM Viktors Pupols<\/strong> tied for first place in the annual Washington Challenger&#8217;s Cup each with 3.5\/4, which took place Nov. 7-8 at Seattle Chess Club. For his victory, Viktors is seeded into the 2016 WA State Championship in February. The tournament was directed by <strong>Fred Kleist<\/strong> and hosted by the Washington Chess Federation. It attracted 60 players in two sections, Open and Reserve U1800. <strong>Travis Elisara<\/strong> of Tumwater won clear first in the reserve section with a perfect 5\/5!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Link to US Chess <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uschess.org\/msa\/XtblMain.php?201511088552\">crosstable<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2786\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2786\" style=\"width: 2048px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/PupolsChallengersCup.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2786\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/PupolsChallengersCup.jpg\" alt=\"Pupols at Challenger's Cup.\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/PupolsChallengersCup.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/PupolsChallengersCup-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/PupolsChallengersCup-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2786\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pupols at Challenger&#8217;s Cup.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Washington Chess Federation Facebook page. &#8220;GM Dmitry Skorchenko and LM Viktors Pupols tied for first place in the annual Washington Challenger&#8217;s Cup each with 3.5\/4, which took place Nov. 7-8 at Seattle Chess Club. For his victory, Viktors is seeded into the 2016 WA State Championship in February. The tournament was directed by Fred [&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":[37],"class_list":["post-2784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tourn","tag-washington-chess-federation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784","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=2784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}