{"id":2533,"date":"2010-01-05T21:18:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T21:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2533"},"modified":"2010-01-05T21:18:38","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T21:18:38","slug":"rook_to_queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2533","title":{"rendered":"Rook To Queen’s Bishop’s Fist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Professor Hawking: <\/p>\n

Felicitations and Happy New Year! I trust this message finds you in good spirits and I hope you had a pleasant holiday season. Did you receive the iTunes gift card I sent you? I know what a big Shakira fan you are.<\/p>\n

I’m writing to suggest a slight format change for our forthcoming zero-g deathmatch (btw, how does next New Year’s Eve work for you? The promoter is bugging me to get something on the calendar.). Two words: chess boxing<\/a>. It’s all the rage right now. The rules are simple. Six rounds of chess alternated with five rounds of boxing. The winner is decided by checkmate or knockout. <\/p>\n

I have a feeling that you’re the better chess player, but I’m reasonably certain I can give you a concussion by the fourth round, thus putting us on more equal footing at the chess board. Plus, it opens up a whole new world of merchandising possibilities. Commemorative chess sets, boards, the works. <\/p>\n

Let me know what you think. In the meantime, I’ll be brushing up on my King’s Gambit. <\/p>\n

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Dear Professor Hawking: Felicitations and Happy New Year! I trust this message finds you in good spirits and I hope you had a pleasant holiday season. Did you receive the iTunes gift card I sent you? I know what a big Shakira fan you are. I’m writing to suggest a slight format change for our […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-ER","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}