{"id":41,"date":"2012-08-06T07:07:59","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T15:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/?p=41"},"modified":"2017-05-05T16:26:05","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T00:26:05","slug":"first-side-event-completed-at-2012-u-s-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/first-side-event-completed-at-2012-u-s-open\/","title":{"rendered":"First Side Event Completed at 2012 U.S. Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/JoshS13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-51\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/JoshS13-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/JoshS13-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/JoshS13.jpg 589w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a><strong>Josh Sinanan of Washington,\u00a0pictured above,\u00a0finished tied for 5th place with 3.5\/5 after losing to co-winner Nick Raptis in the final round.<\/strong> Photo credit: Russell Miller.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Open Weekend Swiss, the first side event of this year&#8217;s tournament held August 4-5, was won by Nick Raptis of Oregon and Francisco Guadalupe II of Texas who tied for first with 4.5 points in five rounds. Yogi Saputra and Takuma Sato-Duncan, both of Oregon, tied for 3rd-4th with 4-1. Josh Sinanan of Washington, Carl Haessler of Oregon and Michael Goffe of Oregon were the Northwest players in the group tied for 5th through 9th with 3.5 points.<\/p>\n<p>41 Players entered the event including 16 players from Oregon and 13 from Washington. The complete cross table <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uschess.org\/msa\/XtblMain.php?201208054882\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">can be viewed here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Sinanan of Washington,\u00a0pictured above,\u00a0finished tied for 5th place with 3.5\/5 after losing to co-winner Nick Raptis in the final round. Photo credit: Russell Miller. The U.S. Open Weekend Swiss, the first side event of this year&#8217;s tournament held August 4-5, was won by Nick Raptis of Oregon and Francisco Guadalupe II of Texas who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9,8,7],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-usopen","tag-haessler","tag-raptis","tag-sinanan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nwchess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}