{"id":20883,"date":"2017-12-24T14:26:03","date_gmt":"2017-12-24T13:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/12\/24\/israeli-chess-players-denied-visas-for-event-in-saudi-arabia\/"},"modified":"2017-12-24T14:26:03","modified_gmt":"2017-12-24T13:26:03","slug":"israeli-chess-players-denied-visas-for-event-in-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=20883","title":{"rendered":"Israeli chess players denied visas for event in Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel Chess Federation says it may take legal action after players barred from travelling to speed chess championshipIsraeli players have been denied visas to participate in a speed chess championship hosted by Saudi Arabia this week, a vice-president of the World Chess Federation (Fide) has said. Seven Israeli players had requested visas for the tournament, taking place from 26-30 December. It would have been the first time Saudi Arabia had publicly hosted Israelis, as the Gulf state does not recognise Israel and there are no formal ties between them. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/dec\/24\/israeli-chess-players-denied-visas-for-event-in-saudi-arabia\" target=\"_blank\">Israeli chess players denied visas for event in Saudi Arabia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel Chess Federation says it may take legal action after players barred from travelling to speed chess championshipIsraeli players have been denied visas to participate in a speed chess championship hosted by Saudi Arabia this week, a vice-president of the World Chess Federation (Fide) has said. Seven Israeli players had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}