{"id":3017,"date":"2016-12-14T23:49:12","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T07:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/?p=3017"},"modified":"2017-04-27T20:59:33","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T04:59:33","slug":"bellevue-8th-grader-naomi-bashkansky-wins-world-school-chess-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/bellevue-8th-grader-naomi-bashkansky-wins-world-school-chess-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Bellevue 8th grader Naomi Bashkansky wins World School Chess Championship!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Naomi\u00a0Bashkansky<\/strong> has just\u00a0won the\u00a02016\u00a0World School Chess Championship<\/strong> in the\u00a0Girls\u00a0Under 13 category, held on December 2 – 12 in Sochi, Russia. With 5 wins (full points) and 4 draws (half-points), she got 7 points in 9 games, and finished in the first place — without a single loss, undefeated.<\/p>\n

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As a winner she is awarded the\u00a0Woman FIDE Master<\/a>\u00a0(WFM) title, and is invited (expenses paid)\u00a0to the 2017 World School Chess Championship in Romania.<\/p>\n

Here are the full WSCC GU13 results:\u00a0http:\/\/chess-results.com\/tnr251725.aspx?lan=1&art=4&flag=30&wi=821<\/a>\u00a0— note the singular US flag on top!<\/p>\n

FIDE report:\u00a0http:\/\/www.fide.com\/component\/content\/article\/1-fide-news\/9952-2016-world-schools-championship-finished-in-sochi.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Naomi’s family chess travel blog post: http:\/\/chesstravel.blogspot.com\/2016\/11\/world-school-chess-championship.html<\/a><\/p>\n

\"image\"<\/a>It should also be noted that Daniel Shubin, a 6th grader at Open Window School in Bellevue, participated in the boys U11 section and\u00a0represented team USA in Sochi. In his first International event, Daniel scored 5 out of 9 (4 wins, 2 draws, 3 losses), an excellent result. \u00a0He tied for 21 place out of 66 participants, congratulations Daniel!<\/p>\n

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Naomi\u00a0Bashkansky has just\u00a0won the\u00a02016\u00a0World School Chess Championship in the\u00a0Girls\u00a0Under 13 category, held on December 2 – 12 in Sochi, Russia. With 5 wins (full points) and 4 draws (half-points), she got 7 points in 9 games, and finished in the first place — without a single loss, undefeated. As a winner she is awarded the\u00a0Woman […]<\/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":[221,178,223,222],"class_list":["post-3017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scholastic","category-tourn","tag-daniel-shubin","tag-naomi-bashkansky","tag-russia","tag-world-school-chess-championship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017","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=3017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}