{"id":9859,"date":"2013-11-10T00:04:37","date_gmt":"2013-11-10T05:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minitosu.com\/?p=9859"},"modified":"2013-11-10T00:26:23","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T05:26:23","slug":"chess-mates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/?p=9859","title":{"rendered":"Chess Mates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/110182_ps29_chess_rookies.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[chessrookies]\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9863\" alt=\"110182_ps29_chess_rookies\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/110182_ps29_chess_rookies.jpg?resize=535%2C357\" width=\"535\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/110182_ps29_chess_rookies.jpg?w=535&amp;ssl=1 535w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/110182_ps29_chess_rookies.jpg?resize=128%2C85&amp;ssl=1 128w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/110182_ps29_chess_rookies.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/110164_fourth_game.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[chessrookies]\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-9861\" alt=\"110164_fourth_game\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/110164_fourth_game.jpg?resize=128%2C85\" width=\"128\" height=\"85\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/110164_fourth_game.jpg?resize=128%2C85&amp;ssl=1 128w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/110164_fourth_game.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/110164_fourth_game.jpg?w=535&amp;ssl=1 535w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_5825_lunch_break.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[chessrookies]\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-9865\" alt=\"IMG_5825_lunch_break\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_5825_lunch_break.jpg?resize=128%2C85\" width=\"128\" height=\"85\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_5825_lunch_break.jpg?resize=128%2C85&amp;ssl=1 128w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_5825_lunch_break.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_5825_lunch_break.jpg?w=535&amp;ssl=1 535w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_5839_public_school_door_knob_2.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[chessrookies]\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-9866\" alt=\"IMG_5839_public_school_door_knob_2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_5839_public_school_door_knob_2.jpg?resize=128%2C85\" width=\"128\" height=\"85\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_5839_public_school_door_knob_2.jpg?resize=128%2C85&amp;ssl=1 128w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_5839_public_school_door_knob_2.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_5839_public_school_door_knob_2.jpg?w=535&amp;ssl=1 535w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 128px) 100vw, 128px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/110154_public_school_door_knob.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[chessrookies]\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"110154_public_school_door_knob\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minitosu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/110154_public_school_door_knob.jpg?resize=85%2C128\" width=\"85\" height=\"128\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"gmw_\">Today, Mika participated in her first-ever <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chessintheschools.org\/s\/index.cfm?SSID=19\" target=\"_blank\">chess tournament<\/a>. It was also the first time her school&#8217;s chess club attended any &#8220;rookie&#8221; event, and our five pioneers met about 500 seriously determined elementary school kids from the New York Metro area. The first two games, Mika played very well and ended in a draw. One game with just the two Kings left standing, the other after going into overtime and playing for more than one hour. In the afternoon, her attention faded and\/or she got paired up with significantly stronger players &#8211; and she lost games 3 and 4. Still, a solid achievement for somebody who doesn&#8217;t play much beyond the one weekly afterschool lesson. Bonus for the accompanying parent (me): the host school still had some original, <a href=\"http:\/\/nyti.ms\/1dbxwIP\" target=\"_blank\">100-year old doorknobs<\/a> &#8230; beautiful type detail of a bygone era!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Mika participated in her first-ever chess tournament. It was also the first time her school&#8217;s chess club attended any &#8220;rookie&#8221; event, and our five pioneers met about 500 seriously determined elementary school kids from the New York Metro area. The first two games, Mika played very well and ended in a draw. One game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[867,447,706],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9859"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9859"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9872,"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9859\/revisions\/9872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minitosu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}