{"id":298946,"date":"2019-05-07T06:06:11","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T20:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=298946"},"modified":"2019-05-07T06:06:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T20:06:11","slug":"steve-jang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/steve-jang\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Jang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Q: What future did your parents envision for you and were you able to fulfil it?<br \/>\nA: My parents wanted me to be in business and help them at their grocery market and pizza stores. However, I wanted to go to medical school. Going to medical school was tough and hard and so I gave up and eventually started my own business.<\/p>\n<p>Q: How did your interest in chess began?<br \/>\nA: My interest in chess sparked when I was 9th grade in Canada. I started having good matches with my Math teacher and winning. Also, winning county championship in California was sweet, too.<\/p>\n<p>Q: About two years ago, you opened a great coffee place in the heart of Garapan along Beach Road\u2014 Ete-Cafe. What do you project this place to be? What does the word \u201cEte\u201d mean?<br \/>\nA: Ete is a French word for summer. Saipan\u2019s weather is warm and hot and so I named it Ete Caf\u00e9. \u00a0Ete Caf\u00e9 opened on March 16, 2018, just little over one year.<br \/>\nI\u2019d like to see Ete Caf\u00e9 be a quiet cozy place where people can sit down and enjoy chatting or doing their work. Ambience was created so that all age groups like it.<\/p>\n<p>Q: What\u2019s common between coffee and chess?<br \/>\nA: Hmm\u2026interesting question! I am not sure\u00a0what\u2019s common between chess and coffee but if I were to take a guess, I would love to have a beautiful checkmate while having coffee and talk trash! Hahaha.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_298957\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-298957\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Steve-Jang-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-298957\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Steve-Jang-pix-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-298957\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Jang, owner Caf\u00e9 Ete and president\/CEO of H&amp;C International, LLC, poses with YoungStyle contributor Alex Megino. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Q: What\u2019s your favorite chess piece and what chess piece best describes you?<br \/>\nA: My favorite chess piece is the queen. The queen is the most powerful piece on the chessboard. Does the queen piece best describe me? Hmmm\u2026I can\u2019t \u2026. many days and times, I feel like a pawn.<\/p>\n<p>Q: What is your most memorable chess match?<br \/>\nA: My most memorable chess match was in Canada and state county high school championship in Southern California, representing my own school. I beat the top senior players from other high schools.\u00a0That felt good!<\/p>\n<p>Q: How much time do you need to understand the strengths and abilities of your chess opponent?<br \/>\nA: Understanding the strength and abilities of ones rival is very important.\u00a0Recollecting different moves and defensive moves is always a plus.<\/p>\n<p>Q: What\u2019s your corporate move in a situation when you are losing the game?<br \/>\nA: I don\u2019t have a corporate move when I am down a piece. However, my plan and strategy is not to trade pieces with my opponent. I become very defensive, make sure all the pieces are protected from one another.<\/p>\n<p>Q: On whose side is the truth, black or white?<br \/>\nA: Of course, I like white better. You get to move first and have the advantage of attacking. I tend to be defensive when I hold black side.<\/p>\n<p>Q: what is your favorite quote?<br \/>\nA: Hmmm\u2026I have many favorite quotes but if I were to take one \u2026 I like to quote from Robert H. Schuller \u2026<br \/>\n\u201cProblems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: What future did your parents envision for you and were you able to fulfil&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":298957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[12779],"class_list":["post-298946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-youngstyle","tag-steve-jang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}