{"id":6727,"date":"2017-01-12T08:24:31","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T13:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=6727"},"modified":"2017-01-12T08:24:31","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T13:24:31","slug":"iran-two-renowned-chess-champions-boycott-2017-tehran-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/6727\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Two renowned chess champions boycott 2017 Tehran game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6728 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/011101-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"011101\" width=\"469\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/011101-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/011101.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 469px) 100vw, 469px\" \/>Two female chess champions announced that they are not going to take part in the 2017 championship competitions in Tehran.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Irina Krush<\/span> from the US mentioned lack of security and <span style=\"color: #333399;\">Mariya Muzychuk<\/span> from Ukraine mentioned the obligation to wear the veil as their reasons for not participating in the games. (The state-run ISNA and Tasnim news agencies \u2013 January 10, 2017)<\/p>\n<p>Irina Krush, 34, is an American chess international grandmaster who has won the US Women&#8217;s Chess Championship in 1998, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Mariya Muzychuk, 25, is a Ukrainian chess player and Women&#8217;s World Chess Champion from April 2015 to March 2016. She is also a twice women&#8217;s champion of Ukraine (2012, 2013), World Team and European Team champion with Ukraine in 2013 and bronze medal winner of the 2012 and 2014 Chess Olympiad with Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Two female chess champions announced that they are not going to take part in the 2017 championship competitions in Tehran. Irina Krush from the US <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/6727\/\" title=\"Iran: Two renowned chess champions boycott 2017 Tehran game\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-society-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6729,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6727\/revisions\/6729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}