{"id":2060,"date":"2014-11-14T01:31:29","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T01:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/?p=2060"},"modified":"2014-11-14T01:33:02","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T01:33:02","slug":"new-orleans-chess-fest-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/?p=2060","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans Chess Fest in the News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chesskid.com\/article\/view\/chesskid-lands-in-new-orleans\">ChessKids.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The first-ever <strong>New Orleans Chess Fest<\/strong>\u00a0teamed up with <strong>ChessKid.com<\/strong> in October. A full day of simuls, blindfold chess, &#8220;living&#8221; chess, and even an appearance from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chesskid.com\/video\/player\/the-opera-game-part-12\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Morphy<\/a> capped a full day of chess.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nola.com\/new_orleans\/2014\/11\/familes_celebrate_at_chess_fes.html\">Nola.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mike Klein, content manager for chess.com and chesskid.com and the headliner for Chess Fest, said important lessons can be learned from playing the game.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In a chess game you can&#8217;t hide,&#8221; Klein said. &#8220;If you don&#8217;t know something, you&#8217;re probably going to lose and that child has to learn how to win gracefully and also how to take his losses well too. So I like playing up the personal responsibility angle of the game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tisserand has also seen the benefits of playing chess. He talked about one student whom he found particularly rewarding to work with. &#8220;She said, &#8216;Chess is teaching me that my decisions matter.&#8217; And that is one thing that I think chess teaches kids,&#8221; Tisserand said. &#8220;They have to decide every move. You know, what kind of game they&#8217;re going to play and then they&#8217;re going to feel the results right away.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ChessKids.com: The first-ever New Orleans Chess Fest\u00a0teamed up with ChessKid.com in October. A full day of simuls, blindfold chess, &#8220;living&#8221; chess, and even an appearance from Paul Morphy capped a full day of chess. Nola.com: Mike Klein, content manager for chess.com and chesskid.com and the headliner for Chess Fest, said important lessons can be learned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14,91],"tags":[90,18],"class_list":{"0":"post-2060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chess-news","8":"category-new-orleans-2","9":"tag-chess-fest","10":"tag-new-orleans","11":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/judeacers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/simul-crop.jpg?fit=1000%2C1000&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1KM1s-xe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judeacers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}