{"id":212,"date":"2010-05-10T23:52:51","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T21:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/?p=212"},"modified":"2010-05-10T23:52:51","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T21:52:51","slug":"a-chess-prodigy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/a-chess-prodigy","title":{"rendered":"A chess prodigy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dorje is progressing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/some-light-reading\">with his chess<\/a>, and is now pretty good.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, he&#8217;s progressing so quickly I can&#8217;t beat him now. In our last game I was demolished while only managing to take 3 of his pawns.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few minor variations on the rules though. The pieces get set up as Dorje wishes. He&#8217;s allowed to make as many moves as he likes at once. All moves are permitted. And when two pieces meet, and get into a &#8220;fight&#8221;, Dorje is the judge as to which piece is left standing.<\/p>\n<p>So while I&#8217;m not holding thumbs at having spawned Africa&#8217;s second <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grandmaster_%28chess%29\">grandmaster<\/a>, Dorje is getting great pleasure from beating me, again and again. And again&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dorje is progressing with his chess, and is now pretty good. In fact, he&#8217;s progressing so quickly I can&#8217;t beat him now. In our last game I was demolished while only managing to take 3 of his pawns. There are a few minor variations on the rules though. The pieces get set up as Dorje [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}