{"id":23683,"date":"2019-02-26T15:51:44","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T21:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/?p=23683"},"modified":"2019-02-26T15:51:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T21:51:44","slug":"the-glory-of-the-imsa-chess-team-and-the-2019-state-chess-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/2019\/02\/26\/the-glory-of-the-imsa-chess-team-and-the-2019-state-chess-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"The Glory of the IMSA Chess Team and the 2019 State Chess Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IMSA is known for being a school that nurtures students&#8217; minds and increases their level of knowledge. The chess team,&nbsp;which has performed extremely well for the past couple of years, is demonstrative of this. However, after last year, when integral seniors graduated and IMSA&#8217;s longtime chess coach, <strong>Dr. Porzio,<\/strong> left the academy,&nbsp;the chess team was left in shambles. Recreating the chess team posed a huge problem, but with the right chess coach, <strong>Maurice Haney,&nbsp;<\/strong>we were finally able to pull through. He was able to reaffirm that IMSA&#8217;s chess team was still very much alive.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Being that the seniors had left in the previous year, most of the current team is compromised of sophomores with a few upperclassmen mixed in. However, this did not stop them from attempting to reach the top at the State chess tournament. The tournament occurred on a 2-day span from Friday to Saturday, and the avenue selected was the Peoria Civic Center. This tournament definitely tested both the team&#8217;s cooperation and their mentality. Throughout the course of the tournament, they faced multiple obstacles: however, in the end, they were able to pull through, as evidenced by their score of 5 points out of the 7 points possible. This is only the beginning for the new chess team, and, hopefully, they continue to do well at State for years to come!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/Dy-PJiJUcAYGcYB.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for chess state peoria IMSA\" width=\"261\" height=\"347\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IMSA is known for being a school that nurtures students&#8217; minds and increases their level of knowledge. The chess team,&nbsp;which has performed extremely well for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"featured_media":23684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1019,3036],"tags":[3087,3053],"coauthors":[2971],"class_list":["post-23683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-imsanews","category-sports","tag-chess-team","tag-state-finals"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23683"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23758,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23683\/revisions\/23758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23683"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=23683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}