{"id":19588,"date":"2013-02-14T15:51:21","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T20:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19588"},"modified":"2013-02-14T15:51:21","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T20:51:21","slug":"teen-chess-prodigy-smashes-record-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19588","title":{"rendered":"Teen Chess Prodigy Smashes Record Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; At the age of 14, <strong>Justus Williams<\/strong> is one of the top-ranked youth chess players in the world. According to the U.S. Chess Federation, <strong>Justus<\/strong>, who was 12 at the time, became the youngest African-American National Master ever.\u00a0 And he led his Bronx middle school team to the national championship. To top it all off, <strong>Justus<\/strong> recently traveled to the World Youth Chess Championship in Slovenia, where he competed for the title of the world\u2019s best chess player under 14.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Justus<\/strong> has said he wants to be an international banker when he gets older. In the meantime, he\u2019s working on video chess tutorials and is launching a national campaign to expose kids to chess.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t think I was going to be good at chess, so just try everything, and try the things you don\u2019t think you\u2019d be good at. If those don\u2019t work out, then try the things that you don\u2019t think you\u2019ll like,\u201d<strong> Justus<\/strong> told the Norwood News.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; At the age of 14, Justus Williams is one of the top-ranked youth chess players in the world. According to the U.S. Chess Federation, Justus, who was 12 at the time, became the youngest African-American National Master ever.\u00a0 And he led his Bronx middle school team to the national championship. To top [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}