{"id":7477,"date":"2011-04-05T09:35:01","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T13:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=7477"},"modified":"2011-04-05T09:35:01","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T13:35:01","slug":"bahamas-national-chess-open-starts-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/04\/bahamas-national-chess-open-starts-next-week","title":{"rendered":"Bahamas National Chess Open Starts Next Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is less than two weeks before the start of the highly competitive Bahamas National Chess Open 2011. At least four former National Champions will compete for the title.<\/p>\n<p>The 2nd Bahamas National Chess Open 2011 is scheduled for Friday April 15 to Sunday April 17. A guest player from Tallahassee, Dr. Daaim Shabazz, has confirmed his participation in the event.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Shabazz is rated by both the World Chess Federation and the US Chess Federation. This tournament is expected to be the BCF&#8217;s most exciting and strongest tournament for 2011.<\/p>\n<p>There are three sections &#8211; Candidates (Invitation only), Open and Scholastic and also $1,000 in cash prizes available to winners of the three categories!<\/p>\n<p>Invited players include the following: Ken Gibson &#8211; 2008 and 2010 Bahamas National Champion; Yan Lyansky &#8211; 2009 Bahamas National Champion; Charles Duncombe &#8211; 2006 Bahamas National Champion; NM Byron Small &#8211; 1992 and 1997 Bahamas National Champion Marvin Taylor.<\/p>\n<p>Other invited players include: Elton Joseph, Joseph Ferguson, Chappel Whyms and Hatchie Robinson.<\/p>\n<p>The BCF is coming off a successful 2011 Scholastic Chess Championship won by Travis Miller from Government High School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2nd Bahamas National Chess Open 2011 is set to begin Friday April 15, featuring four national champions and a guest player from Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[131],"class_list":["post-7477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-sports-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}