{"id":3057,"date":"2017-03-13T16:50:04","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T00:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/?p=3057"},"modified":"2017-04-27T19:29:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T03:29:35","slug":"jason-yu-wins-wa-barber-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/jason-yu-wins-wa-barber-qualifier\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Yu wins WA Barber Qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From\u00a0Washington Chess Federation Facebook Post.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The 2017 WA State Barber Qualifier held on March 11-12 at Chinook Middle School in Bellevue and Seattle Chess Club in Northgate. A little over 100 players took part in 6 sections: K-3U800, K-3U1400, 4-6U1000, 4-12U1400, K-12 U1600, and K-8 Open. The tournament was directed by <strong>David<\/strong> <strong>Hendricks<\/strong> with assistance from <strong>Josh Sinanan<\/strong>, <strong>Dan Mathews<\/strong>, and <strong>Chouchan Airapetian<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>For US Chess crosstables <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uschess.org\/msa\/XtblMain.php?201703121332\">CLICK HERE<\/a>;\u00a0for Northwest Chess Ratings table <a href=\"http:\/\/chess.ratingsnw.com\/report16-17\/Barber.html\">CLICK HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to <strong>Jason Yu<\/strong>, a 5th grader at Spiritridge Elementary School in Bellevue, for winning clear first in the K-8 Open section with 4.5\/5 for the second consecutive year! For his victory, Jason qualifies to represent Washington State at the Barber Tournament of K-8 Champions and wins a $750 travel stipend donated by the Washington Chess Federation. The Barber tournament will be held in Norfolk, VA concurrently with the U.S. Open July 29 &#8211; August 6. Three players tied for second place in the K-8 Open with 4 points apiece: <strong>Eric Zhang<\/strong>, <strong>Owen<\/strong> <strong>Xuan<\/strong>, and <strong>Advaith Vijayakumar<\/strong>. Congratulations to all of the winners!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00a0Washington Chess Federation Facebook Post. The 2017 WA State Barber Qualifier held on March 11-12 at Chinook Middle School in Bellevue and Seattle Chess Club in Northgate. A little over 100 players took part in 6 sections: K-3U800, K-3U1400, 4-6U1000, 4-12U1400, K-12 U1600, and K-8 Open. The tournament was directed by David Hendricks with assistance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[227],"class_list":["post-3057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scholastic","tag-2017-wa-barber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057","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=3057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}