{"id":3929,"date":"2018-08-22T23:29:34","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T07:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/?p=3929"},"modified":"2022-12-16T22:44:22","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T06:44:22","slug":"jason-yu-becomes-national-master","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/jason-yu-becomes-national-master\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Yu becomes National Master"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Jason-Yu-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3936 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Jason-Yu-1-894x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Jason-Yu-1-894x1024.jpg 894w, https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Jason-Yu-1-262x300.jpg 262w, https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Jason-Yu-1.jpg 1013w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to <strong>Jason Yu<\/strong>\u00a0of Bellevue, Washington, who achieved a U.S. Chess rating of 2203 as a result of scoring 5 out of 9 points at the 2nd Annual Seattle Chess Classic, held at Seattle Chess Club August 15-19.\u00a0 Along the way to the title, Jason scored a draw against GM Tarjan and wins against FM Ignacio Perez and LM Viktors Pupols.\u00a0 Way to go Jason!!\u00a0 Here is a link to the crosstable:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uschess.org\/msa\/XtblMain.php?201808199902.2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.uschess.org\/msa\/XtblMain.php?201808199902.2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jason would like to thank all the coaches (WGM Elena Donaldson, IM Georgi Orlov, GM Emil Anka and GM Greg Serper) and people from the Seattle chess community that have helped him on his chess journey so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Jason Yu\u00a0of Bellevue, Washington, who achieved a U.S. Chess rating of 2203 as a result of scoring 5 out of 9 points at the 2nd Annual Seattle Chess Classic, held at Seattle Chess Club August 15-19.\u00a0 Along the way to the title, Jason scored a draw against GM Tarjan and wins against FM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":3936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[265,230,234],"class_list":["post-3929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tourn","tag-jason-yu","tag-national-master","tag-seattle-chess-classic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3929","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=3929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}