{"id":1029,"date":"2016-06-10T03:12:22","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T09:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cruithni.wordpress.com\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2016-06-10T03:12:22","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T09:12:22","slug":"viktor-korchnoi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=1029","title":{"rendered":"Viktor Korchnoi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was downloading a database of his chess games and decided to read his Wikipedia entry to see what he&#8217;s been up to. This was a bit of a shock.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1030\" src=\"https:\/\/cruithni.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/06\/vk.jpg\" alt=\"vk\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/vk.jpg 480w, https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/vk-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/vk-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi (23 March 1931 \u2013 6 June 2016) was a chess grandmaster and writer. He is considered one of the strongest players never to have become World Chess Champion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Any chess fans can download a database of 1155 of his games <a href=\"http:\/\/chess-db.com\/public\/pinfo.jsp?id=1300016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Viktor_Korchnoi\">Viktor Korchnoi &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius:2px;text-indent:20px;width:auto;padding:0 4px 0 0;text-align:center;font:bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#ffffff;background:#bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px;position:absolute;opacity:.85;z-index:8675309;display:none;cursor:pointer;top:118px;left:120px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius:2px;text-indent:20px;width:auto;padding:0 4px 0 0;text-align:center;font:bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#ffffff;background:#bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px;position:absolute;opacity:.85;z-index:8675309;display:none;cursor:pointer;top:118px;left:120px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was downloading a database of his chess games and decided to read his Wikipedia entry to see what he&#8217;s been up to. This was a bit of a shock. Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi (23 March 1931 \u2013 6 June 2016) was a chess grandmaster and writer. He is considered one of the strongest players never &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=1029\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Viktor Korchnoi<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbies-caissa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}