{"id":1038,"date":"2016-03-15T02:39:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T02:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2016-03-15T02:39:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T02:39:04","slug":"interschool-chess-tournament-1072015-jb-diamond-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/?p=1038","title":{"rendered":"INTERSCHOOL CHESS TOURNAMENT ~ 10\/7\/2015 @ JB DIAMOND SCHOOL"},"content":{"rendered":"

I used to play chess before, but at a very basic personal level without seriousness. However, this time I realized the seriousness of chess as a sport and applied for the selections of the school team. It was a great experience, especially because I had to start giving attention to small details and rules of the sport. It was also very challenging for me as I had taken no coaching for the sport at any point of time in the past. With the support of one of my friends who was amazing at chess, I learned all the rules in a few days and also got selected for the team. This was kind of unexpected and hence I recognized my potential in a new sport. The competition itself was very tough, and I think I will need to prepare more for the next time, therefore evoking the need of undertaking challenges. But the exposure, as such, of learning a new sport altogether and representing the school for it was great and I\u2019ll be glad to play more Chess in the coming years. I learned that trying new sports expands my horizon and gives exercise to different parts of the mind – which is something that I will remember for the rest of my life. I used to play only football for most of highschool, but playing chess gave me an insight into an entirely new game.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I used to play chess before, but at a very basic personal level without seriousness. However, this time I realized the seriousness of chess as a sport and applied for the selections of the school team. It was a great experience, especially because I had to start giving attention to small details and rules of the sport. It was also<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vinit-nirav-jogani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1655,"href":"https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions\/1655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.fountainheadschools.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}