{"id":66500,"date":"2018-11-09T23:59:51","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T22:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/11\/09\/clash-of-chess-stars-ends-in-dramatic-draw-after-seven-gruelling-hours\/"},"modified":"2018-11-09T23:59:51","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T22:59:51","slug":"clash-of-chess-stars-ends-in-dramatic-draw-after-seven-gruelling-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=66500","title":{"rendered":"Clash of chess stars ends in dramatic draw after seven gruelling hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Norwegian champion Magnus Carlsen throws away victory against Fabiano Caruana The opening game of a world chess championship is often tense and overly tepid. But there was fire on the board in London as the Norwegian champion Magnus Carlsen sacrificed a pawn for a venomous attack against his challenger Fabiano Caruana, only to throw away victory in a dramatic time scramble.Eventually Caruana \u2013 who is bidding to become the first American since Bobby Fischer in 1972 to win the world title \u2013 was able to claim a draw. But he had to endure 115 moves and seven hours of slow torture before the players called it a night. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2018\/nov\/09\/king-toppled-before-play-begins-in-caruana-carlsen-chess-match\" target=\"_blank\">Clash of chess stars ends in dramatic draw after seven gruelling hours<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norwegian champion Magnus Carlsen throws away victory against Fabiano Caruana The opening game of a world chess championship is often tense and overly tepid. But there was fire on the board in London as the Norwegian champion Magnus Carlsen sacrificed a pawn for a venomous attack against his challenger Fabiano [&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-66500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66500","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=66500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}