{"id":3847,"date":"2017-11-02T21:38:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T05:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/?p=3847"},"modified":"2017-11-08T01:43:36","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T09:43:36","slug":"sluggers-qualify-for-2018-pro-chess-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/sluggers-qualify-for-2018-pro-chess-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Sluggers Qualify for 2018 PRO Chess League"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With the help of returning Slugger and World No. 10 GM Hikaru Nakamura, it is my pleasure to announce that the Seattle Sluggers have officially qualified for the 2018 PRO Chess League!\u00a0 Here is a link to the detailed qualifier article:<\/div>\n
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Other Sluggers who helped the team qualify include GM Georgi Margvelashvili, IM Bryce Tiglon, and FM Anthony He!\u00a0 We finished in second place with 35 points behind the new Chinese team, the Chengdu Pandas, and half-a-point ahead of 3rd place finishers, the Australia Kangaroos.<\/div>\n
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Here is the tentative 2018 Sluggers Roster:<\/div>\n
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Pos<\/b><\/td>\nName<\/b><\/td>\nFIDE Rating (Sept 17)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nGM Hikaru Nakamura<\/td>\n2781<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nGM Gabriel Sargissian<\/td>\n2652<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nGM Tigran Petrosian<\/td>\n2615<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nGM Victor Mikhalevski<\/td>\n2547<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nGM Giorgi Margvelashvili<\/td>\n2530<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nIM Georgi Orlov<\/td>\n2481<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nIM Bryce Tiglon<\/td>\n2439<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nFM Roland Feng<\/td>\n2369<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nFM Anthony He<\/td>\n2281<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nNM Kyle Haining<\/td>\n2169<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Alt<\/td>\nBenjamin Mukumbya<\/td>\n1924<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
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Matches will take place on Wednesday evenings and occasionally on Saturday afternoons with a tentative start date of Wed. January 17, 2018.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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With the help of returning Slugger and World No. 10 GM Hikaru Nakamura, it is my pleasure to announce that the Seattle Sluggers have officially qualified for the 2018 PRO Chess League!\u00a0 Here is a link to the detailed qualifier article: https:\/\/www.chess.com\/news\/view\/6-teams-qualify-for-pro-chess-league-you-pick-2-more Other Sluggers who helped the team qualify include GM Georgi Margvelashvili, IM Bryce […]<\/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":[196,216,236,235,237,35],"class_list":["post-3847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tourn","tag-anthony-he","tag-bryce-tiglon","tag-giorgi-margvelashvili","tag-hikaru-nakamura","tag-pro-chess-league","tag-seattle-sluggers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847","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=3847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}