{"id":5503,"date":"2017-02-17T13:30:21","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T18:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=5503"},"modified":"2019-06-04T16:23:08","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T21:23:08","slug":"chess-club-hosts-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2017\/02\/17\/chess-club-hosts-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Chess Club hosts tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/02\/Chess-Club.png\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/02\/Chess-Club-150x150.png\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5504 size-thumbnail\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/02\/Chess-Club-66x66.png 66w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/02\/Chess-Club-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>The Chess Club at Missouri Western State University will host a tournament open to the general public at 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 25 in the Hoff Conference Rooms, Blum Student Union rooms 218-219. There is a $10 entry fee for non-members.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament winner will receive a customized trophy made by club secretary\/treasurer Jaylen Words, sophomore graphic design major from St. Joseph.<\/p>\n<p>Words; club president Cecilia Tackett, freshman computer information systems major from Savannah, Missouri; and vice-president Ben Hart, sophomore graphic design major from Osborn, Missouri recently visited a fifth-grade classroom at Oak Grove Elementary in St. Joseph to teach the students how to play chess.<\/p>\n<p><em>Missouri Western State University is a comprehensive regional university providing a blend of traditional liberal arts and professional degree programs. The university offers student-centered, high quality instruction that focuses on experience-based learning, community service, and state-of-the-art technology. Missouri Western is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\">www.missouriwestern.edu<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chess Club at Missouri Western State University will host a tournament open to the general public at 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 25 in the Hoff Conference Rooms, Blum Student Union rooms 218-219. There is a $10 entry fee for non-members. The tournament winner will receive a customized trophy made by club secretary\/treasurer Jaylen Words, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8796,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5503\/revisions\/8796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}