{"id":324,"date":"2012-12-09T19:25:58","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T03:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/?p=324"},"modified":"2017-05-05T17:22:36","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T01:22:36","slug":"western-idaho-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/western-idaho-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Idaho Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_343\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-343\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/western-idaho-open\/dsc_1284-large\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-343\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-343\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC_1284-Large-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"Alex Yermolinsky, Joshua Sinanan, Nick Raptis\" width=\"660\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC_1284-Large-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC_1284-Large-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC_1284-Large-448x300.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-343\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2012 Western Idaho Open, Boise, Idaho. l-r: GM Alex Yermolinsky, Joshua Sinanan, and Nick Raptis (sporting a Northwest Chess t-shirt). Photo credit: Jeff Roland.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The 2012 <strong>Western Idaho Open<\/strong>, December 8-9, 2012 in Boise, Idaho was won by GM Alex Yermolinsky (Sious Falls, SD) with 4.5 points. FM Nick Raptis (Portland) was 2nd place with 4 points. There was a 4-way tie for 3rd-6th place between Joshua Sinanan (Seattle), Paul Johnson (Boise), Caleb Abernathy (Meridian, ID), and Peter Olsoy (Boise) with 3.5 points each.<\/p>\n<p>In the Reserve Section, Gary Hollingsworth (Pocatello, ID) and Jarod Buus (Nampa, ID) tied for 1st-2nd place with 4 points each. There was a tie for 3rd-5th place between Jamie Lang (Meridian), Michaela Abernathy (Meridian), and Kevin Patterson (Meridian) with 3.5 points each.<\/p>\n<p>I wish to thank everyone who played and supported this tournament. \u00a0Many players expressed a desire to play but couldn&#8217;t make it for one reason or another, but interest was high. \u00a0Boise State University (BSU) was a great site, and the staff at BSU did a fantastic job in\u00a0accommodating\u00a0our every need.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Idaho Chess Association\" href=\"http:\/\/www.idahochessassociation.org\/westernidahoopen2012.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Here is a link to the complete report, including article, pictures, all the games, and even scans of all the score sheet images.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2012 Western Idaho Open, December 8-9, 2012 in Boise, Idaho was won by GM Alex Yermolinsky (Sious Falls, SD) with 4.5 points. FM Nick Raptis (Portland) was 2nd place with 4 points. There was a 4-way tie for 3rd-6th place between Joshua Sinanan (Seattle), Paul Johnson (Boise), Caleb Abernathy (Meridian, ID), and Peter Olsoy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tourn","tag-idaho"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}