{"id":666,"date":"2016-09-28T11:08:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T11:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/neve\/index.php\/2016\/09\/28\/european-riichi-championship-2016\/"},"modified":"2022-09-04T10:59:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T10:59:30","slug":"european-riichi-championship-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/09\/28\/european-riichi-championship-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"European Riichi Championship 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are proud to have organised the biggest Riichi tournament staged in Europe to date, with no less than 21 countries providing 128 entrants. 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The leading British players were Daina Chiba (8th) Yixuan Liu (14th) and John Duckworth with a creditable 18th place backing up his achievement in the World Championship in Paris in 2015 where he was the best performing European player<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are proud to have organised the biggest Riichi tournament staged in Europe to date, with no less than 21 countries providing 128 entrants. The Mayor of Farnham provided a welcoming reception for distinguished visitors from overseas, and kindly agreed to open the tournament officially. The leading places were taken by players from Russia, Netherlands,&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/09\/28\/european-riichi-championship-2016\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">European Riichi Championship 2016<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,22,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-european","category-riichi","category-tournament-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":774,"href":"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions\/774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukmahjong.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}