{"id":2220,"date":"2021-01-13T17:48:22","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T17:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/?p=2220"},"modified":"2021-01-13T19:13:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T19:13:31","slug":"one-night-in-bangkok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/?p=2220","title":{"rendered":"One night in Bangkok"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"347\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/bogiches.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2221\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taking a look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/lichess.org\/blog\/X-2TABUAANCqhnH5\/lichess-end-of-year-update-2020\">lichess.org 2020 wrap-up<\/a>, one notices two distinct bumps in chess players; the first stemming from the pandemic, the second from the popularity of the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Queen%27s_Gambit_(miniseries)\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Queen%27s_Gambit_(miniseries)\" target=\"_blank\">Queen&#8217;s Gambit<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.prismic.io\/lichess\/5c40c742-6024-4bf6-b158-158261b168cb_2020players.png?auto=compress,format\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a new chess player myself, I wanted to recommend the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perpetualchesspod.com\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.perpetualchesspod.com\" target=\"_blank\">Perpetual Chess Podcast<\/a>, which interviews individuals involved in all levels of the world of chess. I was especially inspired by the interview with <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perpetualchesspod.com\/new-blog\/2017\/5\/23\/episode-25-delayed\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.perpetualchesspod.com\/new-blog\/2017\/5\/23\/episode-25-delayed\" target=\"_blank\">Thibault Duplessis<\/a>, the founder of the free and ad-free <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lichess.org\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/lichess.org\" target=\"_blank\">lichess.org<\/a>. Another interview I enjoyed was with adult improver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.perpetualchesspod.com\/new-blog\/2020\/10\/24\/book-recap-talking-winning-chess-strategies-with-neal-bruce\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.perpetualchesspod.com\/new-blog\/2020\/10\/24\/book-recap-talking-winning-chess-strategies-with-neal-bruce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Neal Bruce discussing Yasser Sereiwan&#8217;s book Winning Chess Strategies<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The picture below is a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lewis_chessmen#\/media\/File:Beserker,_Lewis_Chessmen,_British_Museum.jpg\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lewis_chessmen#\/media\/File:Beserker,_Lewis_Chessmen,_British_Museum.jpg\" data-rel=\"prettyPhoto[2220]\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">berserker<\/a>&#8221; from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lewis_chessmen\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lewis_chessmen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">historic Lewis chessmen<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"745\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/NMSlcm-745x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/NMSlcm-745x1024.jpg 745w, https:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/NMSlcm-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/NMSlcm-768x1055.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/NMSlcm-1118x1536.jpg 1118w, https:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/NMSlcm.jpg 1456w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking a look at the lichess.org 2020 wrap-up, one notices two distinct bumps in chess players; the first stemming from the pandemic, the second from the popularity of the Queen&#8217;s Gambit. As a new chess player myself, I wanted to recommend the Perpetual Chess Podcast, which interviews individuals involved in[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2220"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2228,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220\/revisions\/2228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}