{"id":1094,"date":"2020-01-07T22:20:51","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T22:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/?p=1094"},"modified":"2020-01-07T22:20:51","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T22:20:51","slug":"congratulations-to-gm-jacobson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/?p=1094","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to GM Jacobson!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The year has just started, but the Young Stars &#8211; Team USA program already has a new success story.<\/p>\n<p>It has been some time coming, and it certainly is good news: Brandon Jacobson has fulfilled his requirements for the grandmaster title! This comes after a very strong performance in the 2020 Charlotte Open. With 7.0\/9, Brandon was able to vanquish the field and finished solo first.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/?attachment_id=1095\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1095\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1095\" src=\"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/81408641_2618818308235767_7607101467421310976_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/81408641_2618818308235767_7607101467421310976_n.jpg 480w, https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/81408641_2618818308235767_7607101467421310976_n-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brandon with tournament organizer Peter Giannatos, receiving his plaque for first place as well as his first place check.<a href=\"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/?attachment_id=1096\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1096\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1096\" src=\"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/81758546_2610165015767763_8918802733230718976_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/81758546_2610165015767763_8918802733230718976_o.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/81758546_2610165015767763_8918802733230718976_o-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/81758546_2610165015767763_8918802733230718976_o-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/81758546_2610165015767763_8918802733230718976_o-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brandon in action during the tournament. After his fourth round loss to Aleksandr Lenderman, he never looked back! A crucial win with the black pieces over GM Akshat Chandra in round eight cemented his position in the standings, and a draw was more than enough to seal the deal for the tournament win and his final GM norm.<\/p>\n<p>Here are his results:<a href=\"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/?attachment_id=1097\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1097\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1097\" src=\"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jacobsonNorm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"505\" height=\"629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jacobsonNorm.jpg 505w, https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jacobsonNorm-241x300.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We congratulate Brandon and his family on this achievement and wish him the best in upcoming tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>Photos courtesy of the Charlotte Chess Center, organizers of the 2020 Charlotte Open. Pictures taken from their Facebook which can be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/charlottechesscenter\/\">found here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The year has just started, but the Young Stars &#8211; Team USA program already has a new success story. It has been some time coming, and it certainly is good news: Brandon Jacobson has fulfilled his requirements for the grandmaster title! This comes after a very strong performance in the 2020 Charlotte Open. With 7.0\/9, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1098,"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions\/1098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}