{"id":2062,"date":"2012-11-26T23:44:53","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T23:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/info.to-cs.org\/?p=2062"},"modified":"2012-11-28T05:02:16","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T05:02:16","slug":"tocs-chess-team-won-award-in-american-open-chess-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/info.to-cs.org\/?p=2062","title":{"rendered":"TOCS Chess Team Won Award in American Open Chess Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I&#8217;d like to congratulate all my students and their parents who have attended the annual American Open Chess Championship this weekend.Our TOCS teams worked hard in the 2-day intense competition and had some successes.<\/p>\n<p>In the Saturday tournament, our beginner players fared well in their groups; Daniel Wang won the fifth place in his section. Good job!<\/p>\n<p>In the Sunday tournament, we had some experienced players competing. All the kids fought hard and did their best. Justin Ho managed to win his last round game when he had 1 second left. Good spirit! Siva and Owen each won a medal for their good performances. Our star player Andy Shi won 4 out<var id=\"yiv1467355608yui-ie-cursor\"><\/var>\u00a0of 5 games against the best players in his section and earned the third place. He got a giant trophy! With the together effort of our TOCS kids, we won a nice team trophy for the third place!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to thank all the parents for their dedication and help in the American Open. In addition, I would like to thank my dad for helping me organize the teams in both Saturday and Sunday, while I played in my own section of the American Open.<\/p>\n<p>There are more tournaments coming up in the near future. I wish more kids can participate and share the success. This is also one of my important goals in teaching our TOCS chess class.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, congratulations to everyone!<\/p>\n<p>Thank you,<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Simone\u00a0Liao<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>Co-Teacher of TOCS Chess Class<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to congratulate all my students and their parents who have attended the annual American Open Chess Championship this weekend.Our TOCS teams worked hard in the 2-day intense competition and had some successes. In the Saturday tournament, our beginner &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/info.to-cs.org\/?p=2062\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":899,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.to-cs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.to-cs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.to-cs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.to-cs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/899"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.to-cs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2062"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/info.to-cs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2064,"href":"https:\/\/info.to-cs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062\/revisions\/2064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.to-cs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.to-cs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.to-cs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}