{"id":737,"date":"2018-10-22T16:45:42","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T20:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogs.euni.org\/?p=737"},"modified":"2018-10-22T16:45:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T20:45:42","slug":"the-chess-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogs.euni.org\/?p=737","title":{"rendered":"The Chess Match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One Sunday afternoon, a chess match was being held at the King\u2019s Hills Chess Club where bets were being made on Henry MacDuff versus Melvin Longspur. 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