{"id":32928,"date":"2012-06-05T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/dominicans-bid-for-new-guinness-record-for-chess\/"},"modified":"2012-06-05T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T01:43:56","slug":"dominicans-bid-for-new-guinness-record-for-chess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2012\/06\/05\/dominicans-bid-for-new-guinness-record-for-chess\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominicans bid for new Guinness Record for chess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The president of the Dominican Chess Federation, Pedro Dominguez Brito has announced the celebration of a chess tournament with more than 25,000 players competing along a 5km stretch of the Malecon seafront boulevard in Santo Domingo. The event is planned for 12 August. The Embassy of Taiwan is co-sponsoring the event with a donation of 25,000 chess sets and 1,170 digital clocks. The current record is held by India, with 20,480 players at a 2010 event. <\/p>\n<p> www.facebook.com\/events\/199925450130935\/<\/p>\n<p> For more on upcoming events, see http:\/\/www.dr1.com\/calendar <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president of the Dominican Chess Federation, Pedro Dominguez Brito has announced the celebration of a chess tournament with more than 25,000 players competing along a 5km stretch of the Malecon seafront boulevard in Santo Domingo. The event is planned for 12 August. The Embassy of Taiwan is co-sponsoring the event with a donation of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2012\/06\/05\/dominicans-bid-for-new-guinness-record-for-chess\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[231,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}