{"id":1175,"date":"2023-10-24T13:28:51","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T13:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/10\/24\/lichess-a-free-chess-site-to-rival-the-icc\/"},"modified":"2023-10-24T13:28:51","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T13:28:51","slug":"lichess-a-free-chess-site-to-rival-the-icc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/10\/24\/lichess-a-free-chess-site-to-rival-the-icc\/","title":{"rendered":"LiChess: A Free Chess Site to Rival the ICC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Chess is a beautiful thing, a gift of the gods, an oasis of sanity in an insane world. Thanks to Traitor Joe and the chucklephuckery of his supporters, we are teetering on the brink of WW3. It is an exciting time to be alive in part because it may prove to be an <em>exiting<\/em> time. If you need a break from the madness, Caissa&#39;s arms beckon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">I&#39;ve been patzin&#39; <\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">around at <a href=\"https:\/\/lichess.org\/\">LiChess<\/a> the last few days under the handle, SeldomSeenSlim. My preferred time control is three-minute blitz with a two-second increment. That way, I do not take too much time from my other, my main mistress, fair Philosophia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"> <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c02c8d39ce3c6200c-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Boethius and  Philosophia\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c02c8d39ce3c6200c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c02c8d39ce3c6200c-500wi\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Boethius and  Philosophia\" \/><\/a><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chess is a beautiful thing, a gift of the gods, an oasis of sanity in an insane world. Thanks to Traitor Joe and the chucklephuckery of his supporters, we are teetering on the brink of WW3. It is an exciting time to be alive in part because it may prove to be an exiting time. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/10\/24\/lichess-a-free-chess-site-to-rival-the-icc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LiChess: A Free Chess Site to Rival the ICC&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chess"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175","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=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}