{"id":6777,"date":"2026-01-26T18:29:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T01:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=6777"},"modified":"2026-01-27T18:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T01:30:10","slug":"the-black-and-white-world-of-chess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2026\/01\/26\/the-black-and-white-world-of-chess\/","title":{"rendered":"The Black And White World Of Chess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Naomi preferred the chessboard to reality. When playing, every piece and every rule is precise. Away from the game, nothing seems certain. Why am I feeling these emotions, and what do they mean? Did he really say that? Could this really be happening?<\/p>\n<p>The only deviations in chess come from unexpected moves, whether it&#8217;s double exclamation point brilliance or a tragic blunder that would have seemed inconceivable from a player of such caliber, they still exist within the framework of the board. <\/p>\n<p>So how can it hurt more to be betrayed by someone you love than to lose a match?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naomi preferred the chessboard to reality. When playing, every piece and every rule is precise. Away from the game, nothing seems certain. Why am I feeling these emotions, and what do they mean? Did he really say that? Could this really be happening? The only deviations in chess come from unexpected moves, whether it&#8217;s double [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[13858,6805,13857,13859,4264,13854,13855,2147,13856,13860,2479,5252,12889,2907,6500,9052,1774,2359],"class_list":["post-6777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-blunder","tag-board","tag-brilliance","tag-caliber","tag-chess","tag-chessboard","tag-deviations","tag-emotions","tag-exclamation-point","tag-framework","tag-game","tag-match","tag-moves","tag-nothing","tag-piece","tag-player","tag-reality","tag-rule"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6778,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6777\/revisions\/6778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}