{"id":10513,"date":"2011-07-24T11:38:23","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T11:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/07\/24\/john-leslie-and-hostage-chess\/"},"modified":"2011-07-24T11:38:23","modified_gmt":"2011-07-24T11:38:23","slug":"john-leslie-and-hostage-chess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/07\/24\/john-leslie-and-hostage-chess\/","title":{"rendered":"John Leslie and Hostage Chess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">I learned recently that the philosopher<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uoguelph.ca\/~johnlesl\/\" target=\"_self\"> John Leslie<\/a> is the inventor of a chess variant, Hostage Chess. Left-click on the hyperlink and scroll down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">I have never played any of the chess variants, and they don&#39;t interest me. Penetrating the arcana of standard chess has me sufficiently occupied. Such a patzer am I that I could not explain the Lucena and <\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Philidor positions without consulting the manuals. But could you? And my endgame savvy is weak. My excuse is that I didn&#39;t get seriously into chess until I was deep into middle age.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">I can say of Caissa what Augustine said of the Eternal Unchanging Light: &quot;Too late have I loved thee.&quot; Not that the former takes the place of the latter, you understand.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learned recently that the philosopher John Leslie is the inventor of a chess variant, Hostage Chess. Left-click on the hyperlink and scroll down. I have never played any of the chess variants, and they don&#39;t interest me. Penetrating the arcana of standard chess has me sufficiently occupied. Such a patzer am I that I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/07\/24\/john-leslie-and-hostage-chess\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;John Leslie and Hostage Chess&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-chess"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}