{"id":34,"date":"2020-08-30T14:01:30","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T14:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegospel.rocks\/?page_id=34"},"modified":"2022-11-11T03:03:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T03:03:35","slug":"chess","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thegospel.rocks\/?page_id=34","title":{"rendered":"Chess"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Since my youth I have been a competitive chess player and avid chess fan. I&#8217;m currently near my peak rating, just above 2000, having achieved the &#8220;expert&#8221; status in recent years. A recent tournament highlight was beating an FM (FIDE master) who himself had beaten Peter Svidler back in the 90s.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Now my chess enjoyment comes mainly from reading game books, like Kasparov&#8217;s <em>Chess Predecessors<\/em> series and <em>The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal<\/em>, though I still play rated games when I can.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Here is <a href=\"https:\/\/fredericksburg.com\/fls\/local-chess-player-seeks-master-status\/article_df765fc6-02e3-5d21-b76b-96b87237ec41.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/fredericksburg.com\/fls\/local-chess-player-seeks-master-status\/article_df765fc6-02e3-5d21-b76b-96b87237ec41.html\">a newspaper article<\/a> that tells part of my chess story.<\/p>\r\n<p>Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opc.org\/nh.html?article_id=1082\">my reflection<\/a> on how hobbies like chess can be enjoyed to the glory of God.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since my youth I have been a competitive chess player and avid chess fan. I&#8217;m currently near my peak rating, just above 2000, having achieved the &#8220;expert&#8221; status in recent years. A recent tournament highlight was beating an FM (FIDE master) who himself had beaten Peter Svidler back in the 90s. Now my chess enjoyment &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thegospel.rocks\/?page_id=34\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chess&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-34","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegospel.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegospel.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegospel.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegospel.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegospel.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thegospel.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"https:\/\/thegospel.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegospel.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}