{"id":3328,"date":"2011-07-14T07:10:39","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T15:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=3328"},"modified":"2011-07-14T07:10:39","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T15:10:39","slug":"chennai-to-host-world-chess-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=3328","title":{"rendered":"Chennai to Host World Chess Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holder Viswanathan Anand will clash with Boris Gelfand of Israel for the 2012 World Chess Championship title, which will be held in India for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa has accepted a proposal to conduct the event either in April or May next year during a meeting with World Chess Federation (FIDE) president Kirsan Illyumzhinov.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time that India would be hosting the prestigious tournament, which would be held at a cost of around Rs 20 crore, a state government release said.<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting, Illyumzhinov mooted the proposal to conduct the games in Chennai to which the Jayalalithaa agreed, the release added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holder Viswanathan Anand will clash with Boris Gelfand of Israel for the 2012 World Chess Championship title, which will be held in India for the first time. Tamil Nadu chief &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=3328\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4954,4955,4956,4139,207,1455,4957,4958,4959],"class_list":["post-3328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs-club","tag-boris-gelfand-of-israel","tag-chennai","tag-chennai-to-host-world-chess-championship","tag-chess","tag-current-affairs","tag-current-affairs-to-know","tag-fide","tag-host-world-chess-championship","tag-world-chess-federation","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}