{"id":9683,"date":"2012-05-25T12:43:06","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T12:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/05\/25\/cat-blogging-friday-alekhine-and-his-cat-chess\/"},"modified":"2012-05-25T12:43:06","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T12:43:06","slug":"cat-blogging-friday-alekhine-and-his-cat-chess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/05\/25\/cat-blogging-friday-alekhine-and-his-cat-chess\/","title":{"rendered":"Cat Blogging Friday: Alekhine and his Cat, Chess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c016305d55816970d-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alekhine-cat\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c016305d55816970d\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c016305d55816970d-800wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Alekhine-cat\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Reuben Fine, <em>The Psychology of the Chess Player<\/em> (Dover 1967), p. 53:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">In 1935, an international team tournament was held in Warsaw.&#0160; Alekhine played top board for France, of which he was a naturalized citizen.&#0160; However, on this trip he arrived at the Polish border without a passport.&#0160; When the officials asked him for his papers he replied: &quot;I am Alekhine, chess champion of the world.&#0160; I have a cat called Chess. &#0160;I do not need papers.&quot; The matter had to be straightened out by the highest authorities.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuben Fine, The Psychology of the Chess Player (Dover 1967), p. 53: In 1935, an international team tournament was held in Warsaw.&#0160; Alekhine played top board for France, of which he was a naturalized citizen.&#0160; However, on this trip he arrived at the Polish border without a passport.&#0160; When the officials asked him for his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/05\/25\/cat-blogging-friday-alekhine-and-his-cat-chess\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cat Blogging Friday: Alekhine and his Cat, Chess&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cats","category-chess"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9683","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=9683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}