{"id":289,"date":"2017-05-12T14:43:58","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T19:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dusers.drexel.edu\/~chess\/?p=289"},"modified":"2017-05-12T14:43:58","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T19:43:58","slug":"drexel-places-2nd-at-state-collegiate-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techserv.drexel.edu\/~chess\/2017\/05\/12\/drexel-places-2nd-at-state-collegiate-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Drexel Places 2nd at State Collegiate Championship!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dusers.drexel.edu\/~chess\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170312_174403.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-280 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dusers.drexel.edu\/~chess\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170312_174403.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20170312_174403\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.techserv.drexel.edu\/~chess\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170312_174403.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.techserv.drexel.edu\/~chess\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170312_174403-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.techserv.drexel.edu\/~chess\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_20170312_174403-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On March 11 and 12, four players from the Drexel Chess Club spent the weekend before Week 10 competing at the annual Pennsylvania Collegiate Chess Championship. Although they arrived with a small team, they put up a valiant effort, finishing second with a final score of 11 points. They were only 0.5 points behind first-place winners Shippensburg, who were the defending champs.<\/p>\n<p>The team was led by Paul, who finished with a great score of 4.5 points out of 5 in the U1400 section, finishing as the top collegiate player in the section, and tying for first overall in the section. He won a trophy and a cash prize for his efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Additional contributors were Josh, who scored 3\/5 in the U1800 section and finished as the top collegiate player in that section, Angelo, who scored 2\/5 in the difficult Open section, and Nate, who scored 1.5\/5 in the U1400 section.<\/p>\n<p>Great job to the entire team for performing well and keeping the Drexel tradition of competing at states alive!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 11 and 12, four players from the Drexel Chess Club spent the weekend before Week 10 competing at the annual Pennsylvania Collegiate Chess Championship. Although they arrived with a small team, they put up a valiant effort, finishing second with a final score of 11 points. They were only 0.5 points behind first-place &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techserv.drexel.edu\/~chess\/2017\/05\/12\/drexel-places-2nd-at-state-collegiate-championship\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Drexel Places 2nd at State Collegiate Championship!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tournament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techserv.drexel.edu\/~chess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techserv.drexel.edu\/~chess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techserv.drexel.edu\/~chess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techserv.drexel.edu\/~chess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techserv.drexel.edu\/~chess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.techserv.drexel.edu\/~chess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"https:\/\/www.techserv.drexel.edu\/~chess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techserv.drexel.edu\/~chess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techserv.drexel.edu\/~chess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techserv.drexel.edu\/~chess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}