{"id":353,"date":"2014-04-27T10:44:41","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T10:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/?p=353"},"modified":"2014-11-20T19:19:01","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T19:19:01","slug":"shannon-holds-cm-frank-sears-to-a-draw-round-2-of-2nd-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/shannon-holds-cm-frank-sears-to-a-draw-round-2-of-2nd-qualifier\/","title":{"rendered":"Shannon holds CM Frank Sears to a draw (round 2 of 2nd qualifier)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Round 2 action at the 2nd Qualifier for the 2014 national Championships saw many drawn games, but perhaps none was more amazing than the draw between CM Frank \u00a0Sears and CARIFTA Gold medalist, young Shannon Yearwood.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Shannon-draws-with-Sears.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-354\" alt=\"Shannon draws with Sears\" src=\"http:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Shannon-draws-with-Sears-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Shannon-draws-with-Sears-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Shannon-draws-with-Sears-600x450.jpg 600w, http:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Shannon-draws-with-Sears-900x675.jpg 900w, http:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Shannon-draws-with-Sears.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shannon dropped a pawn early in the opening but fought back after to make up for her early error. In a knight and pawns endgame against Sears, who is one of T&amp;Ts best endgame specialist, Shannon Yearwood found a lovely knight and pawn sacrifice to force a draw. So wonderful was this game (initially pointed out to us by CM Joshua Johnson) that Frank Sears clapped his young opponent after the game. In the post-game interview, when asked how she felt, Shannon said: &#8220;relieved&#8221;. She then sat around after her game (the final game of the night) to see analysis on the endgame conducted by Andrew Bowles, Cecil Lee and others. When asked what were his thoughts Sears replied, &#8220;she has good temperament&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Full results of round 2:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Daryl Davis \u00bd \u00a0\u2013 Cecil Lee \u00bd<\/p>\n<p>Frank Sears \u00bd \u2013 Shannon Yearwood \u00bd<\/p>\n<p>Zurich Smith 0 \u2013 Colin Knight 1<\/p>\n<p>David Jones 1 \u2013 Rishon Ramlogan 0<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Bowles 1 \u2013 Sean Yearwood 0<\/p>\n<p>Ken Fitzpatrick 0 \u2013 Leonard Duncan 1<\/p>\n<p>Carlyle Singh 0 \u2013 Hayden Lee 1<\/p>\n<p>Mikel Martin \u00bd \u2013 Daniel Bhola \u00bd<\/p>\n<p>Hermes Mentor 1 \u2013 Carl Jacobs 0<\/p>\n<p>Bye \u2013 Brian Leemoon 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Round 2 action at the 2nd Qualifier for the 2014 national Championships saw many drawn games, but perhaps none was more amazing than the draw between CM Frank \u00a0Sears and CARIFTA Gold medalist, young Shannon Yearwood. Shannon dropped a pawn early in the opening but fought back after to make up for her early error.<a class=\"sup-readmore\" href=\"http:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/shannon-holds-cm-frank-sears-to-a-draw-round-2-of-2nd-qualifier\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[28,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-qualifiers-2014","category-tournaments-2014"],"better_featured_image":null,"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356,"href":"http:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}