{"id":13097,"date":"2025-02-10T20:04:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T20:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/wordpress\/lavie\/?p=13097"},"modified":"2025-02-10T20:04:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T20:04:57","slug":"chess-club-brings-students-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2025\/02\/10\/chess-club-brings-students-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Chess club brings students together"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"dslc-theme-content\"><div id=\"dslc-theme-content-inner\">\n<p>(By Chris Timasonravichkit \u201928, staff writer)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The LVC chess club is the place for students of all skill levels looking to make connections, learn new skills and engage in friendly competition.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since its founding as a probationary club in October, the club has quickly grown in popularity and has big plans looking forward.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe big plans are expanding, officially becoming a club and getting a tournament started,\u201d Eric Estes, chess club president, said.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After gaining full status, Estes hopes to host regular chess tournaments every spring. With 15 members and growing, chess club has fostered community among its members united by a common love for the game.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSince starting here [at LVC], I really wanted to build connections,\u201d John Gemmell, chess club treasurer, said.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chess club plans to continue meeting weekly on Fridays at 5 p.m. in Clyde A. Lynch Memorial Hall room 189. Interested students are encouraged to reach out to <a href=\"mailto:ewe001@lvc.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ewe001@lvc.edu<\/a> for more information.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>(By Chris Timasonravichkit \u201928, staff writer) The LVC chess club is the place for students of all skill levels looking to make connections, learn new skills and engage in friendly competition.&nbsp;&nbsp; Since its founding as <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2025\/02\/10\/chess-club-brings-students-together\/\" title=\"Chess club brings students together\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"category-features","9":"category-front-page","10":"category-homepage"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}