{"id":2577,"date":"2014-03-13T15:39:05","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T15:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/?p=2577"},"modified":"2014-03-13T15:39:05","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T15:39:05","slug":"chess-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/2014\/03\/13\/chess-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"CHESS CHAMPION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie Buchanan was crowned last Monday as the new chess champion of Braidhurst High School 2014.\u00a0\u00a0 There were 32 pupils who battled it out in a knockout tournament to compete for the shield.\u00a0\u00a0 Jamie cruised through the four rounds to beat Gary Stokes in the final who was also a strong contender to win the title.<\/p>\n<p>The last chess champion from Braidhurst was Kit Won in 1997.\u00a0\u00a0 Mr Clark hopes to have many chess champions in the years to come due to the club\u2019s success as there are so many keen players.\u00a0\u00a0 Braidhurst is even looking to enter a few pupils into next year\u2019s state championship.<\/p>\n<p>Pupils from all year groups have enjoyed the strategic complexities of the game which offers challenge and stimulating exercise.\u00a0\u00a0 Played in a vibrant atmosphere at Monday lunch times, the game of chess has brought fun and competition to all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie Buchanan was crowned last Monday as the new chess champion of Braidhurst High School 2014.\u00a0\u00a0 There were 32 pupils who battled it out in a knockout tournament to compete for the shield.\u00a0\u00a0 Jamie cruised through the four rounds to beat Gary Stokes in the final who was also a strong contender to win the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/2014\/03\/13\/chess-champion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CHESS CHAMPION<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13966,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14908],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whole-school-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13966"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2578,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions\/2578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}