{"id":8599,"date":"2023-07-18T09:24:52","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T14:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/?p=8599"},"modified":"2023-07-18T09:24:52","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T14:24:52","slug":"members-of-mu-chess-community-win-national-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/2023\/07\/18\/members-of-mu-chess-community-win-national-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Members of MU chess community win national awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-medium is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/07\/Tokhirjonova-photo-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of Begim Tokhirjonova\" class=\"wp-image-8600\" width=\"260\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/07\/Tokhirjonova-photo-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/07\/Tokhirjonova-photo-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/07\/Tokhirjonova-photo-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/07\/Tokhirjonova-photo.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Begim Tokhirjonova<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mizzou Chess is again receiving national recognition for excellence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MU student Begim Tokhirjonova was recently <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnew.uschess.org%2F2023-us-chess-annual-awards-recipients&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cgerlingk%40missouri.edu%7C1bb02b8e7ad44174f40008db83b1fa79%7Ce3fefdbef7e9401ba51a355e01b05a89%7C0%7C0%7C638248572725500304%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=96HmhwXGuCurHTL3EMhTp0HuYUZ8%2BtwgTjeVQG4tEZw%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\">named the 2023 U.S. Chess Federation Woman Chessplayer of the Year<\/a>. Originally from Uzbekistan, she is an International Woman Grandmaster and was part of the inaugural <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/chess.missouri.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mizzou Chess Team<\/a> in 2019 \u2013 putting our Tigers on an upward trajectory. Begim is completing a degree in business administration with an emphasis in management, a minor in entrepreneurship and innovation, and a global business certificate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-medium is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ChessTeamEvent_Sinquefield-14-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of Rex Sinquefield, Begim Tokhirjonova, President Choi and Curator Jeanne Cairns Sinquefield at an MU Chess Team reception in April 2022.\" class=\"wp-image-8601\" width=\"281\" height=\"187\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(Left to right) Rex Sinquefield, Begim Tokhirjonova, President Choi and Curator Jeanne Cairns Sinquefield at an MU Chess Team reception in April 2022.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.S. Chess Federation also announced that Curator Jeanne Cairns Sinquefield and Rex Sinquefield received the Gold Koltanowski Award for growing the country\u2019s chess community. Both are <a href=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/applauding-our-chess-team-and-supporters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dedicated supporters<\/a> of MU Chess \u2013 as well as our music programs through the visionary <a href=\"https:\/\/newmusic.missouri.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mizzou New Music Initiative<\/a> and the Sinquefield Music Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to all!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Mun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MU student Begim Tokhirjonova was recently named the 2023 U.S. Chess Federation Woman Chessplayer of the Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}