Golden State Warriors\u2019 Quinten Post became the first-ever NBA Chess Champion after he won the blitz tournament at the inaugural Chesstival in Los Angeles. <\/p>\n
The Chesstival is a cross-over event hosted by Magnus Carlsen\u2019s Freestyle Chess and American basketballer Derrick Rose. <\/p>\n
Post claimed the title with a dominating performance, acquiring 4.5 points out a maximum of five. Rajon Rondo, who used to represent Boston Celtics, finished second with four points. <\/p>\n
Chesstival also had a Head & Hand tournament, which saw chess grandmasters team-up with NBA stars. In this format, the GMs call which piece to be played, while the hoopsters get to pick where to move the piece. <\/p>\n
Dallas Mavericks forward Grant Williams and chess legend Judit Polgar won Head & Hand tournament, with Carlsen and Rose faltering in the quarterfinal. <\/p>\n
The Chesstival was a promotional event for the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam, which starts on Wednesday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Golden State Warriors\u2019 Quinten Post became the first-ever NBA Chess Champion after he won the blitz tournament at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3786],"tags":[7,31804,31806,31805,479,164,4025,4024,6,31807,1102,31803,31798,31800,31802,31801,31799,255],"class_list":{"0":"post-171980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golden-state-warriors","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-chesstival","10":"tag-chesstival-nba","11":"tag-chesstival-results","12":"tag-golden-state","13":"tag-golden-state-warriors","14":"tag-goldenstate","15":"tag-goldenstatewarriors","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-nba-chess","18":"tag-quinten-post","19":"tag-quinten-post-blitz","20":"tag-quinten-post-chess","21":"tag-quinten-post-chess-champion","22":"tag-quinten-post-chess-freestule","23":"tag-quinten-post-chesstival","24":"tag-quinten-post-nba","25":"tag-warriors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114856617908648981","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}