{"id":44,"date":"2013-02-22T19:45:37","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T19:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vassar-chadwick.com\/club\/?p=44"},"modified":"2013-02-22T19:45:37","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T19:45:37","slug":"usate-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vassar-chadwick.com\/club\/usate-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"USATE 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again Vassar-Chadwick sent multiple teams to one of the most enjoyable tournaments of the year, the US Amateur Team East. Participants included the following (with their final score and rating change in\u00a0parenthesis):<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vassar-Chadwick.com<\/strong> (3.5)<\/p>\n<p>Board 1: Ernie Johnson (2, -20) \u00a0 \u00a0 Board 1 is a thankless job&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Board 2: Scott Strattner (4, -1)<\/p>\n<p>Board 3: Ken Evans (4, -11)<\/p>\n<p>Board 4: Darius Jafary (5.5, +10) \u00a0 \u00a0 Congrats to Darius for a tremendous result!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vassar-Chadwick B <\/strong>(3.0)<\/p>\n<p>Board 1: David Bedoukian (2, -8)<\/p>\n<p>Board 2: Dr. Craig Fisher (4, +27) \u00a0 \u00a0 That&#8217;s a healthy jump in rating points!<\/p>\n<p>Board 3: Bob Simmons (1.5, 0)<\/p>\n<p>Board 4: Dan Rosa (3.5, +12)<\/p>\n<p>as well as:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Northeastern Huskies<\/strong> (2.5)<\/p>\n<p>Board 1: David Antonucci (0, -44) \u00a0 \u00a0 Did I mention how difficult it is to play board 1?<\/p>\n<p>Board 2: Michael Raphael (2.5, -16)<\/p>\n<p>Neither the group or individual scores (or rating adjustment) can tell the full picture. You may sweat out a grueling 6 hour draw against a scrappy youngster who seems to play the right move every time, only to find out his rating is 350 points less than yours. All kids are underrated! What makes USATE a memorable time is the camaraderie and spectacle of joining over a thousand other chess-obsessed folks for team-oriented combat. I am already looking forward to next year &#8211; and next time I&#8217;m going to take a quick draw to make sure I can make it to <a title=\"Arthur's Tavern - Parsippany\" href=\"http:\/\/www.arthurstavern.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Arthur&#8217;s<\/a> for their great prime rib.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"NJ State Chess Federation\" href=\"http:\/\/njscf.org\/2013-world-amateur-team-east\/\" target=\"_blank\">Team results and prizes<\/a>. <a title=\"USCF MSA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uschess.org\/assets\/msa_joomla\/XtblMain.php?201302183732.1-12524932\" target=\"_blank\">USCF crosstable<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again Vassar-Chadwick sent multiple teams to one of the most enjoyable tournaments of the year, the US Amateur Team East. Participants included the following (with their final score and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tournaments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vassar-chadwick.com\/club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vassar-chadwick.com\/club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vassar-chadwick.com\/club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vassar-chadwick.com\/club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vassar-chadwick.com\/club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/vassar-chadwick.com\/club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45,"href":"http:\/\/vassar-chadwick.com\/club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vassar-chadwick.com\/club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vassar-chadwick.com\/club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vassar-chadwick.com\/club\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}