{"id":53086,"date":"2018-11-08T16:43:48","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T21:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=53086"},"modified":"2018-11-08T18:54:44","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T23:54:44","slug":"checkmate-stalemate-forfeit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/checkmate-stalemate-forfeit\/","title":{"rendered":"Checkmate, stalemate, forfeit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow, for the first time in 46 years, an American, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chessgames.com\/perl\/chessplayer?pid=76172\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fabiano Caruana<\/a>, will challenge the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chessgames.com\/perl\/chessplayer?pid=52948\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">world chess champion<\/a> for the title. The last time this happened, it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chessgames.com\/perl\/chess.pl?tid=54397\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">major news<\/a>. This time, though, apparently no one much cares. I searched the online edition of the Wichita newspaper today to see if there has been any mention of Caruana. This is what I found:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/caruana.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/caruana-603x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"603\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-53082\" srcset=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/caruana-603x640.jpg 603w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/caruana-768x815.jpg 768w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/caruana.jpg 926w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These don&#8217;t seem to have much to do with chess.<\/p>\n<p>Out of curiosity, I did a search for &#8220;chess.&#8221; Here are the first few results:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/chess.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/chess-490x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-53083\" srcset=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/chess-490x640.jpg 490w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/chess-768x1003.jpg 768w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/chess-784x1024.jpg 784w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/chess.jpg 915w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 85vw, 490px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So the <i>Wichita Eagle<\/i> squanders thousands of column inches every year on tedious ball games and incredible quantities of tripe, drivel and sanctimonious BS, but it can&#8217;t be bothered to spare a few inches for chess unless there&#8217;s a political angle to exploit.<\/p>\n<p>You can follow the games live <a href=\"https:\/\/worldchess.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> for $20. There will also be coverage <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chessgames.com\/perl\/chess.pl?tid=94088\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow, for the first time in 46 years, an American, Fabiano Caruana, will challenge the world chess champion for the title. The last time this happened, it was major news. This time, though, apparently no one much cares. I searched the online edition of the Wichita newspaper today to see if there has been any &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/checkmate-stalemate-forfeit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Checkmate, stalemate, forfeit&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-dOe","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53086"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53099,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53086\/revisions\/53099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}