{"id":505,"date":"2015-08-06T20:50:56","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T20:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/?p=505"},"modified":"2015-08-06T20:50:56","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T20:50:56","slug":"kasparov-chess-foundation-announces-inaugural-2015-greater-california-scholastic-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/?p=505","title":{"rendered":"Kasparov Chess Foundation Announces  Inaugural 2015 Greater California Scholastic Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New York, NY, Aug. 5, 2015 \u2014 <\/strong>Kasparov Chess Foundation is proud to announce the first Greater California Scholastic Championships, to take place on Aug. 15 \u2013 16, 2015, at the Maple Park Community Center, 800 E. Maple Street, Glendale, CA.\u00a0 The Greater California event joins KCF\u2019s Regional Scholastic Championship Series, including Greater Chicago, Greater Mid-Atlantic, and Greater New York tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>The Foundation is sponsoring its first West Coast tournament in association with American Chess Academy and Beyond Chess.\u00a0 The Greater California Scholastic Championships welcomes students from K \u2013 12 grades, in public, private, and home school.\u00a0 The tournament is broken up into two sections, as follows:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>K \u2013 12 Section: 6 Rounds, G\/60<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday, Aug. 15, 2015<\/strong>: 10am, 12:30pm, 3:00pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday, Aug. 16, 2015<\/strong>: 10am, 12:30pm, 3:00pm, 5:15pm (Trophy Ceremony)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>JV Section: 5 Double Rounds, G\/30<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday, Aug. 15, 2015<\/strong>: 10am, 12:30pm, 3:00pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday, Aug. 16, 2015<\/strong>: 10am, 12:30pm, 3:00pm (Trophy Ceremony)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fee<\/strong>:\u00a0 $60 by Aug. 5<sup>th<\/sup>, $75 thereafter.\u00a0 Make checks payable to American Chess Academy, and mail to \u201cACA\u201d 411 N. Jackson St., Apt. 101, Glendale, CA 91206.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact<\/strong>: Armen <a href=\"mailto:americanchessacademy@gmail.com\">americanchessacademy@gmail.com<\/a>; email: <a href=\"mailto:artmik@charter.net\">artmik@charter.net<\/a>; Phone: (818) 640-5974.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prizes<\/strong>: 60 Trophies will be handed out, along with a $2,000 gift card prize fund.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Flier<\/strong>:\u00a0 To view our flier, please click on this link &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1W27Aaq\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1W27Aaq<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>About Kasparov Chess Foundation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Founded by World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov, KCF\u2019s mission is to bring the many educational benefits of chess to children worldwide by providing a complete chess curriculum and enrichment programs. The Foundation promotes the study of chess as a cognitive learning tool in curricular classes and after-school programs for elementary, middle and high schools, both in the public and private school sectors. The not-for-profit educational organization also organizes tournaments and competitions on a local and national basis. For more information, please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/\">https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">#\u00a0 #\u00a0 #<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY, Aug. 5, 2015 \u2014 Kasparov Chess Foundation is proud to announce the first Greater California Scholastic Championships, to take place on Aug. 15 \u2013 16, 2015, at the Maple Park Community Center, 800 E. Maple Street, Glendale, CA.\u00a0 The Greater California event joins KCF\u2019s Regional Scholastic Championship Series, including Greater Chicago, Greater [&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-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","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=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507,"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}