{"id":2908,"date":"2016-02-25T00:51:25","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T08:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/?p=2908"},"modified":"2017-05-19T20:07:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T04:07:28","slug":"washington-presidents-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/washington-presidents-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington President’s Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2016 Washington President’s Cup<\/strong> took place at Seattle Chess Club February 13-14. The tournament was hosted by Washington Chess Federation and directed by WCF tournament coordinator Dan Mathews, with assistance from Duane Polich and Murlin Varner. 67 players took part in two sections: Open and Reserve U1600. Sloan Setiadikurnia, Travis Miller, and Zachary Zhang tied for first place in\u00a0the Open section with 3.5\/4! Northwest Chess Grand Prix Admin Murlin Varner won the reserve section with 4.5\/5! A selection of games from the tournament can be viewed here<\/a>. The\u00a0US Chess rating report can be found here<\/a>. Below is the complete list of the prize winners:<\/p>\n

Open<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Sloan<\/a>
Sloan Setiadikurnia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sloan Setiadikurnia<\/strong>, 3.5, 1st Place\/2nd Place\/1stU1900, $271.67<\/p>\n

\"Travis<\/a>
Travis Miller<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Travis Miller<\/strong>,\u00a03.5, 1st Place\/2nd Place\/1st U1900, $271.67<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Zachary
Zachary Zhang<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Zachary Zhang<\/strong>, 3.5, 1st Place\/2nd Place\/1st U1900, $271.67 (seeded into 2017 WA Premier based on highest tiebreaks)
\nMinda Chen<\/strong>, 3.0, 1st U1700, $82.50
\nJasen Reeves<\/strong>, 3.0, 1st U1700, $82.50<\/p>\n

Reserve<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Murlin Varner<\/strong>, 4.5, 1st Place, $300
\nBoas Lee<\/strong>, 4.0, 2nd Place, $250
\nAidan Lawler<\/strong>, 3.5, 1st U1400, $55
\nAndy Tien<\/strong>, 3.5, 1st U1400, $55
\nAlison Xiao<\/strong>, 3.5, 1st U1400, $55
\nJoseph Levine<\/strong>, 3.5, 1st U1200\/Unrated, $82.50
\nEmily Tang<\/strong>, 3.5, 1st U1200\/Unrated, $82.50<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 2016 Washington President’s Cup took place at Seattle Chess Club February 13-14. The tournament was hosted by Washington Chess Federation and directed by WCF tournament coordinator Dan Mathews, with assistance from Duane Polich and Murlin Varner. 67 players took part in two sections: Open and Reserve U1600. Sloan Setiadikurnia, Travis Miller, and Zachary Zhang […]<\/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":[165,36,37],"class_list":["post-2908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tourn","tag-presidents-cup","tag-seattle-chess-club","tag-washington-chess-federation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908","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=2908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}