{"id":3939,"date":"2018-10-16T16:25:29","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T00:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/?p=3939"},"modified":"2018-11-06T15:38:02","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T23:38:02","slug":"national-chess-day-in-vancouver-wa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/national-chess-day-in-vancouver-wa\/","title":{"rendered":"National Chess Day in Vancouver WA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Chess Day was Saturday October 13, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>On that day a Simultaneous Exhibition by <strong>Grandmaster James Tarjan<\/strong> was held at the Vancouver Mall, 8700 NE Vancouver Mall Drive, Vancouver WA near Macy&#8217;s entrance to the mall by the large chess set on the lower level that gets a lot of play. Play took place over 14 boards and took about 3 hours. A mixture of adults and kids and one woman took part. This was a free event for players and spectators. The grandmaster won all his games.<\/p>\n<p>The organizer was Russell (Rusty) Miller e-mail: <a href=\"mailto:russellmiller22@comcast.net\">russellmiller22@comcast.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The sponsors were: Vancouver Mall, Northwest Chess, US Chess provided chess mags, Chess Butler provided chess books for prizes e-mail: <a href=\"mailto:info@chessbutler.com\">info@chessbutler.com<\/a>, Esther Schrader, EinsteinWise Academy provided the sets and boards and their website is: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.EinsteinWise.com\/\">www.EinsteinWise.com<\/a>, IQ Credit Union in Vancouver WA provided the pens for players to keep a score of their game.<\/p>\n<p>Pictures of the event can be found on Russell&#8217;s flickr account: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/27748810@N03\/albums\/72157674461762828\">https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/27748810@N03\/albums\/72157674461762828<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Chess Day was Saturday October 13, 2018. On that day a Simultaneous Exhibition by Grandmaster James Tarjan was held at the Vancouver Mall, 8700 NE Vancouver Mall Drive, Vancouver WA near Macy&#8217;s entrance to the mall by the large chess set on the lower level that gets a lot of play. Play took place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[89,266],"class_list":["post-3939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announce","tag-national-chess-day","tag-tarjan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939","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=3939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}