{"id":68243,"date":"2014-09-08T14:38:14","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T12:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=68243"},"modified":"2014-09-08T14:38:14","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T12:38:14","slug":"checkmate-local-youngster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2014\/09\/08\/checkmate-local-youngster\/","title":{"rendered":"Checkmate for local youngster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Laerskool Oosterkruin&#8217;s Ru\u00e0n M\u00f6ller (6) has been selected to represent Ekurhuleni Junior Chess&#8217;s u-8 A team at the South African National Chess Championships, to be held in Kimberly, from January 3 to 10, next year.<\/p>\n<p>M\u00f6ller is a student at Little Knights Chess Academy and didn&#8217;t know how to play the game of chess prior to this year.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>With hard work, dedication and natural talent,\u00a0M\u00f6ller is making his way to the top, one move at a time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;M\u00f6ller says he loves the game of chess, because it makes him smart and he gets to make a lot of new friends,&#8221;\u00a0M\u00f6ller&#8217;s coach, Rayno Botha.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Apart form watching cartoons, building blocks and playing outside,\u00a0M\u00f6ller often enjoys a game of Chess on the iPad.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;M\u00f6ller is a true Little Knight,&#8221; added Botha.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='a3958f37452db4cf3a068826d0dd8a5c'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Youngster headed for SA Chess Championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":552,"featured_media":68246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[4697,4698,979,1159,2749,4699,1119,1724],"class_list":["post-68243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-chess","tag-ekurhuleni-junior-chess","tag-germiston","tag-laerskool-oosterkruin","tag-puleng-sekabate","tag-south-african-national-chess-championships","tag-sport-2","tag-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["chess","Ekurhuleni Junior Chess","germiston","Laerskool Oosterkruin","Puleng Sekabate","South African National Chess Championships","sport","sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/552"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}