{"id":1003,"date":"2006-04-24T10:29:40","date_gmt":"2006-04-24T18:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/04\/in_the_eternal_words_of_murray_head_edward_r_murrow_the_worlds_your_oyster.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T11:36:07","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T16:36:07","slug":"in_the_eternal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/in_the_eternal.html","title":{"rendered":"In The Eternal Words Of Murray Head: Edward R. Murrow, The World&#8217;s Your Oyster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/411593p-348152c.html\">The city don&#8217;t know that the city is getting the cr\u00c3\u00a8me de la cr\u00c3\u00a8me of the chess world<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Brooklyn&#8217;s Edward R. Murrow High School chess team scored a checkmate last night as it captured another national title.<\/p>\n<p>The eight-member team from Midwood won the National High School Chess Championship for the third straight year with a razor-thin half-point victory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a great pleasure to have the honor of winning the title again for the last time,&#8221; said team captain Ilya Kotlyanskiy, a 17-year-old senior, who will graduate in June. &#8220;We proved our skills.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The three-day tournament in Milwaukee came down to the wire with the Brooklyn team needing to win their final two games to capture glory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It feels great to win it all by ourselves and not have to share the title with anyone,&#8221; said junior Sal Bercys, 16, the highest-ranked player on the team.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Edward R. Murrow tied for the championship with Catalina Foothills High School of Tucson, this year&#8217;s runner-up. It was the sixth first-place crown for Edward R. Murrow in the team&#8217;s 22-year history.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The team later celebrated at Chuck E. Cheese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city don&#8217;t know that the city is getting the cr\u00c3\u00a8me de la cr\u00c3\u00a8me of the chess world: Brooklyn&#8217;s Edward R. Murrow High School chess team scored a checkmate last night as it captured another national title. The eight-member team from Midwood won the National High School Chess Championship for the third straight year with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}