{"id":103713,"date":"2017-08-13T18:36:58","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T13:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=103713"},"modified":"2017-08-13T18:38:58","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T13:08:58","slug":"chess-icon-kasparov-comes-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/chess-icon-kasparov-comes-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Chess Icon Kasparov comes back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a move electrifying the world of chess, former world champion Garry Kasparov is coming out of a 12-year retirement Monday to take on a new generation of players who have long worshiped him as the closest thing to a \u201cchess god.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kasparov utterly dominated the sport from 1985 to 2000. Since his withdrawal from a tournament in Linares, Spain in March 2005, the Russian\u2019s absence has left many chess fanatics feeling orphaned.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-103714 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/kasparov-twitter_806x605_51499326711.jpg\" alt=\" Chess Icon Kasparov comes back\" width=\"671\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/kasparov-twitter_806x605_51499326711.jpg 806w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/kasparov-twitter_806x605_51499326711-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 671px) 100vw, 671px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So there was considerable surprise when he agreed to play in the new Rapid and Blitz tournament in St. Louis, Missouri, which follows closely after the annual Sinquefield Cup competition, a major stop on the world tour, in the same city on the Mississippi River.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kasparov, who became the youngest world champion ever at age 22 in 1985, is now 54, more than a decade past the age when professional chess players typically retire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a move electrifying the world of chess, former world champion Garry Kasparov is coming out of a 12-year retirement Monday to take on a new generation of players who have long worshiped him as the closest thing to a \u201cchess god.\u201d Kasparov utterly dominated the sport from 1985 to 2000. Since his withdrawal from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29609,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports-news","category-top-stories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/66-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}