{"id":81101,"date":"2021-02-06T20:51:07","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T15:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?page_id=81101"},"modified":"2021-02-06T20:51:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T15:21:07","slug":"chess-as-a-hobby","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/chess-as-a-hobby\/","title":{"rendered":"Chess as a hobby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(i) At\u00a0<strong>what level do you play Chess<\/strong>\u00a0viz. college, club, amateur, professional internet Chess, or just for fun.<\/p>\n<p>(ii)\u00a0<strong>Know in brief about the history of this game, important players specially in India<\/strong>(V. Anand, Dibyendu Barua, S.S. Ganguly, Koenru Humpy etc. and other G.Ms., Kasparov, Karpov Kamsky, Kramnik,, Bobby Fischer, Topalov, etc)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Know about tournaments professional bodies (PCA, FIDE) various forms of playing Chess (Classical, Blitz, Blindfold).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Know about rules, terminologies, moves of chess e.g. Castling rules e.g. Ruy Lopez opening, Queen\u2019s Gambit, Sicilian defence, etc.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(iv) Should<strong>\u00a0Chess be an Olympic sport<\/strong>? What should be done to popularize Chess, specially in India?<\/p>\n<p>(v) Who are\u00a0<strong>India\u2019s current national champions<\/strong>? Chess players at national level also find it difficult to get sponsors. Is it true? What can be done about it? What role do you envisage, the Government, private sector should play in popularizing chess?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(i) At\u00a0what level do you play Chess\u00a0viz. college, club, amateur, professional internet Chess, or just for fun. (ii)\u00a0Know in brief about the history of this game, important players specially in India(V. Anand, Dibyendu Barua, S.S. Ganguly, Koenru Humpy etc. and other G.Ms., Kasparov, Karpov Kamsky, Kramnik,, Bobby Fischer, Topalov, etc) Know about tournaments professional bodies&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/chess-as-a-hobby\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chess as a hobby<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10309,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-81101","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10309"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}