{"id":243017,"date":"2024-06-27T00:35:54","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T19:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=243017"},"modified":"2024-06-27T00:35:54","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T19:05:54","slug":"gukesh-starts-as-favourite-praggnanandhaa-cynosure-of-all-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/06\/27\/gukesh-starts-as-favourite-praggnanandhaa-cynosure-of-all-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Gukesh starts as favourite, Praggnanandhaa cynosure of all eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bucharest, 26 Jun: World Championship challenger D Gukesh starts as the favourite to win his first major tournament since the triumph at the Candidates while R Praggnanandhaa will also eye success in the 2024 Grand Chess Tour (GCT), the sport&#8217;s richest tournament, which begins here from Thursday.<br \/>\nThe prestigious tourney attracts some of the world&#8217;s top chess players, all vying for supremacy and a share of the significant prize fund.<br \/>\nHeld in the vibrant city of Bucharest, the tournament not only promises high-stakes matches but also a celebration of chess culture in a region that is rich with history and passion for the game.<br \/>\nPlayers and spectators alike can look forward to intense competition, brilliant strategies, and moments of sheer genius as the battle for chess glory unfolds. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bucharest, 26 Jun: World Championship challenger D Gukesh starts as the favourite to win his first major tournament since the triumph at the Candidates while R Praggnanandhaa will also eye success in the 2024 Grand Chess Tour (GCT), the sport&#8217;s richest tournament, which begins here from Thursday. The prestigious tourney attracts some of the world&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-243017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}