{"id":3762,"date":"2022-09-19T03:31:23","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T03:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/?p=3762"},"modified":"2022-09-19T03:31:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T03:31:23","slug":"aca-honors-dr-bill-taylor-at-25th-mho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/2022\/09\/19\/aca-honors-dr-bill-taylor-at-25th-mho\/","title":{"rendered":"ACA Honors Dr. Bill Taylor at  25th MHO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It has been 3 years in the making thanks to COVID, but Dr. Bill Taylor finally ran his last MHO Open.  The ACA had recently passed a motion honoring and thanking Dr. Taylor for his organizing, teaching and other chess contributions for the last few decades.  The ACA was finally able to present him with a plaque to recognize his achievements at his last MHO.  Many thanks for Ford Wong, who was instrumental in bringing this about and did the presentation.  Thank you Dr. Taylor!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"552\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.albertachess.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/MHO25_2_3.jpg?resize=736%2C552\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3763\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.albertachess.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/MHO25_2_3.jpg?resize=1024%2C768 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.albertachess.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/MHO25_2_3.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.albertachess.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/MHO25_2_3.jpg?resize=768%2C576 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.albertachess.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/MHO25_2_3.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.albertachess.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/MHO25_2_3.jpg?w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.albertachess.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/MHO25_2_3.jpg?w=1472 1472w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" \/><figcaption>Dr. Bill Taylor accepts plaque from Ford Wong.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"552\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.albertachess.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/MHO25_2_5.jpg?resize=736%2C552\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.albertachess.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/MHO25_2_5.jpg?resize=1024%2C768 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.albertachess.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/MHO25_2_5.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.albertachess.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/MHO25_2_5.jpg?resize=768%2C576 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.albertachess.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/MHO25_2_5.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.albertachess.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/MHO25_2_5.jpg?resize=1400%2C1050 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.albertachess.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/MHO25_2_5.jpg?resize=600%2C450 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.albertachess.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/MHO25_2_5.jpg?w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.albertachess.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/MHO25_2_5.jpg?w=1472 1472w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" \/><figcaption>Ford also presents flowers to Dr. Taylor.<br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"552\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.albertachess.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/MHO25_2_2.jpg?resize=736%2C552\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3761\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.albertachess.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/MHO25_2_2.jpg?resize=1024%2C768 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.albertachess.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/MHO25_2_2.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.albertachess.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/MHO25_2_2.jpg?resize=768%2C576 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.albertachess.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/MHO25_2_2.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.albertachess.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/MHO25_2_2.jpg?w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.albertachess.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/MHO25_2_2.jpg?w=1472 1472w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" \/><figcaption>Ford Wong delivers speech honoring Dr. Taylor&#8217;s contribution to chess over the decades.<br>s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been 3 years in the making thanks to COVID, but Dr. Bill Taylor finally ran his last MHO Open. The ACA had recently passed a motion honoring and thanking Dr. Taylor for his organizing, teaching and other chess contributions for the last few decades. The ACA was finally able to present him with&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/2022\/09\/19\/aca-honors-dr-bill-taylor-at-25th-mho\/#more-3762\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","clear","has-post-thumbnail","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3767,"href":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3762\/revisions\/3767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}