{"id":66645,"date":"2018-11-11T01:12:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T00:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/11\/11\/carlsen-and-caruana-deadlocked-in-battle-of-mozart-and-killah-priest-of-chess\/"},"modified":"2018-11-11T01:12:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T00:12:00","slug":"carlsen-and-caruana-deadlocked-in-battle-of-mozart-and-killah-priest-of-chess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=66645","title":{"rendered":"Carlsen and Caruana deadlocked in battle of Mozart and Killah Priest of chess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The captivating rivalry at the World Championship in London may finally bring the game in from the coldNorth-west India, the sixth century. Two men play a board game on an eight\u2011by-eight grid. The pieces are divided into four ranks, representing military divisions: five foot soldiers, three cavalry, one chariot, one elephant. At the end of the game, one man says: \u201cThat was great. We should play that again.\u201d His opponent nods: \u201cYeah, it was fun.\u201d Then his brow furrows: \u201cBut I don\u2019t know, was it cool?\u201dNew Orleans, circa 1875. Paul Morphy, the dominant chess master of his era, a legend of the sport by the age of 21, walks up and down the long veranda of his home. Over and over, in French, he mutters: \u201cHe will plant the banner of Castile upon the walls of Madrid to the cry of the victorious city, and the little king will go away looking very sheepish.\u201d Morphy is not yet 40 years old and hasn\u2019t played competitively for a decade. It is assumed he has been driven to madness by the infinite possibilities of chess: that there are more possible moves in a game than atoms in the universe. But perhaps not; maybe he\u2019s just ruminating: \u201cWill this game I\u2019ve played better than anyone in history ever be cool?\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2018\/nov\/11\/magnus-carlsen-fabiano-caruana-mozart-killah-priest-chess-world-championship\" target=\"_blank\">Carlsen and Caruana deadlocked in battle of Mozart and Killah Priest of chess<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The captivating rivalry at the World Championship in London may finally bring the game in from the coldNorth-west India, the sixth century. Two men play a board game on an eight\u2011by-eight grid. The pieces are divided into four ranks, representing military divisions: five foot soldiers, three cavalry, one chariot, one [&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-66645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66645","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=66645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}