{"id":23743,"date":"2008-01-21T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/01\/21\/if-they-had-felt-a-little-more-mischievous-when-they-titled-the-article-excerpts-from-fischer-spassky-games\/"},"modified":"2008-01-21T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T10:00:01","slug":"if-they-had-felt-a-little-more-mischievous-when-they-titled-the-article-excerpts-from-fischer-spassky-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20080121-01\/?p=23743","title":{"rendered":"If they had felt a little more mischievous when they titled the article Excerpts from Fischer-Spassky games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> In response to the recent passing of chess celebrity Bobby Fischer, the Associated Press published an article titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/01\/18\/AR2008011802942.html\"> <i>Excerpts from Fischer-Spassky Games<\/i><\/a>. The article consists of excerpts from the organization&#8217;s coverage of the so-called Match of the Century in 1972. <\/p>\n<p> But given the title, I wondered whether the article had merely gone like this: <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\">\n<p> <b>Game 3<\/b>: 27. Qd2 Rbe8 28. Re3 h5 29. R3e2 Kh7 30. Re3 Kg8 <\/p>\n<p> <b>Game 6<\/b>: 17. Be2 Nd7 18. Nd4 Qf8 19. Nxe6 fxe6 <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> There you go, excerpts from Fischer-Spassky games. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the recent passing of chess celebrity Bobby Fischer, the Associated Press published an article titled Excerpts from Fischer-Spassky Games. The article consists of excerpts from the organization&#8217;s coverage of the so-called Match of the Century in 1972. But given the title, I wondered whether the article had merely gone like this: Game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-23743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>In response to the recent passing of chess celebrity Bobby Fischer, the Associated Press published an article titled Excerpts from Fischer-Spassky Games. The article consists of excerpts from the organization&#8217;s coverage of the so-called Match of the Century in 1972. But given the title, I wondered whether the article had merely gone like this: Game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}