{"id":39803,"date":"2004-04-14T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-14T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2004\/04\/14\/playing-on-an-entirely-different-level\/"},"modified":"2004-04-14T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-14T07:00:00","slug":"playing-on-an-entirely-different-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20040414-00\/?p=39803","title":{"rendered":"Playing on an entirely different level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  Competitive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scrabble.com\/\">Scrabble<sup>&reg;<\/sup><\/a>  is another game entirely.  For example,  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scrabble-assoc.com\/games\/wsc2001\/25\/\">  here&#8217;s a game from the 2001 World Championship<\/a>.  You can follow it  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scrabble-assoc.com\/games\/wsc2001\/25\/000.html\">  move-by-move<\/a>,  or you can   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scrabble-assoc.com\/tourneys\/2001\/wsc\/build\/notes\/25.html\">  read the game commentary<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>  The name &#8220;Stefan&#8221; you see in the commentary is  <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/\">Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/i>  reporter Stefan Fatsis,  author of  <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spikemagazine.com\/0402wordfreak.htm\">Word Freak:  Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius and Obsession  in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players<\/a><\/i>,  a book that is on my list of &#8220;books I really want to read&#8221;.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Competitive Scrabble&reg; is another game entirely. For example, here&#8217;s a game from the 2001 World Championship. You can follow it move-by-move, or you can read the game commentary. The name &#8220;Stefan&#8221; you see in the commentary is Wall Street Journal reporter Stefan Fatsis, author of Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius and Obsession in the World [&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-39803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Competitive Scrabble&reg; is another game entirely. For example, here&#8217;s a game from the 2001 World Championship. You can follow it move-by-move, or you can read the game commentary. The name &#8220;Stefan&#8221; you see in the commentary is Wall Street Journal reporter Stefan Fatsis, author of Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius and Obsession in the World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39803","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=39803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39803\/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=39803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}