{"id":2084,"date":"2018-11-16T21:26:50","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T13:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.co.uk\/SU\/?p=2084"},"modified":"2018-11-16T21:26:51","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T13:26:51","slug":"its-a-phenomenal-time-to-be-a-chess-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/its-a-phenomenal-time-to-be-a-chess-fan\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a phenomenal time to be a chess fan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/s--7O260aVb--\/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800\/w0nhfgocrtmtey2ui0rn.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Carlson vs Caruana, London 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Carlsen-Caruana is the matchup that the chess world was hoping for. It\u2019s world No. 1 versus world No. 2\u2014the first World Championship match between the top two since Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov went at it for the fifth and final time in 1990. Caruana only sits three Elo rating points behind Carlsen at 2832 to 2835, both the highest combined rating and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chess.com\/news\/view\/carlsen-caruana-top-rating-list-before-title-match\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the smallest ratings difference in World Championship history<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iWP0ggStlVA\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8216;I don&#8217;t see you guys rating<br>The kind of mate I&#8217;m contemplating<br>I&#8217;d let you watch, I would invite you<br>But the queens we use would not excite you&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Carlsen-Caruana is the matchup that the chess world was hoping for. It\u2019s world No. 1 versus world No. 2\u2014the first World Championship match between the top two since Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov went at it for the fifth and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/its-a-phenomenal-time-to-be-a-chess-fan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chess"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2086,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084\/revisions\/2086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}