{"id":10887,"date":"2014-05-01T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T13:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=10887"},"modified":"2014-05-01T07:59:29","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T11:59:29","slug":"the-economics-of-competitive-college-chess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/the-economics-of-competitive-college-chess\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Competitive College Chess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/050114_1154_TheEconomic1.jpg\" alt=\"*Ice creaking*\" width=\"644\" height=\"429\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Colleges are spending millions to compete in the top chess leagues writes Michael S. Rosenwald:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Webster University spends $635,000 a year on its 15 player college chess team.<\/li>\n<li>University officials argue that the media coverage this generates is worth $2.8 million.<\/li>\n<li>Others can spend even more. One coach was looking for $1 million in funding \u2013 a quarter of which was to be her base salary.<\/li>\n<li>The rest of that money would be used for scholarships to attract top chess prodigies from around the world.<\/li>\n<li>UMBC, for example, funds five fellows who receive free tuition and $15,000 a year for food and housing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the world of collegiate chess competitions, who the leading universities are, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/is-webster-university-spending-1-million-to-dominate-college-chess-and-crush-umbc\/2014\/04\/28\/15b9f7dc-cf0c-11e3-a6b1-45c4dffb85a6_story.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/is-webster-university-spending-1-million-to-dominate-college-chess-and-crush-umbc\/2014\/04\/28\/15b9f7dc-cf0c-11e3-a6b1-45c4dffb85a6_story.html\">The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colleges are spending millions to compete in the top chess leagues writes Michael S. Rosenwald: Webster University spends $635,000 a year on its 15 player college chess team. University officials argue that the media coverage this generates is worth $2.8 million. Others can spend even more. One coach was looking for $1 million in funding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/050114_1154_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10887"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10891,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10887\/revisions\/10891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}