{"id":7307,"date":"2018-02-23T18:09:26","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T16:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/equipos-de-futbol-belga-entrenan-en-mojacar\/"},"modified":"2018-02-26T14:08:11","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T12:08:11","slug":"mojacar-tournament-chess-junior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devmojacar.talleragencia.com\/en\/mojacar-tournament-chess-junior\/","title":{"rendered":"Moj\u00e1car\u00b4s junior chess tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The 1st Inter-Centre Chess Tournament was recently held in Moj\u00e1car, with young players from the town\u2019s Rey Alabez and Bartolom\u00e9 Flores Schools competing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It was organized by the Language Adaptation ATAL organisation, who worked in collaboration with both schools on the event and saw the maximum of 32 players taking part, with more lined up as reserves.<\/p>\n<p>Lots were drawn to pair off the young participants, with \u00c1lvaro Gonz\u00e1lez and Carlos Garc\u00eda-Alix coming through as winners on the day. It was a tough final that showed a high level of play and strategy, although in truth, the real success was achieved by the integration of the Spanish children with those from different countries.<\/p>\n<p>Learning to play chess can benefit a child\u2019s development as it helps mental skills and assists in their studies generally, but it has an even more important role in these two schools which have over twenty different nationalities studying together.<\/p>\n<p>Ana Jim\u00e9nez Lagos, a teacher in the ATAL group, has added chess to her timetable of activities as a very valuable tool to help students from other countries to integrate and break down language barriers by making friends and socializing, which she knows can sometimes be a difficult issue.<\/p>\n<p>The three year school programme is free and includes over 40 students from almost every country around the world and, will soon beavailable in Vera and Garrucha, towns which are also now enrolling children whose first language is not Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>ATAL\u2019s work is important in the development of coexistence and respect, as well as in generally overcoming the challenges children face in language and culture and, as part of the D\u00eda de Andaluc\u00eda celebrations the sterling work of Ana Jim\u00e9nez Lago is being recognised by the regional government.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1st Inter-Centre Chess Tournament was recently held in Moj\u00e1car, with young players from the town\u2019s Rey Alabez and Bartolom\u00e9 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,32,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualidad-en","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devmojacar.talleragencia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devmojacar.talleragencia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devmojacar.talleragencia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devmojacar.talleragencia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devmojacar.talleragencia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/devmojacar.talleragencia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7309,"href":"https:\/\/devmojacar.talleragencia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7307\/revisions\/7309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devmojacar.talleragencia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devmojacar.talleragencia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devmojacar.talleragencia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devmojacar.talleragencia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}