{"id":844240,"date":"2026-08-03T11:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T11:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/844240\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T11:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T11:12:11","slug":"open-thread-a-chess-shop-employee-lucked-into-a-match-against-victor-wembanyama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/844240\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread: A chess shop employee lucked into a match against Victor Wembanyama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cI got to ask him three questions (the staff encouraged us to do so but it\u2019s quite hard to talk while trying to stay focus on a game of chess).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Q1: \u201cDid you get the chance to meet with the rookies?\u201d<br \/>Wemby: \u201cNo, I was in France this whole time.\u201d<br \/>Q2: \u201cAre you eager to meet them?\u201d<br \/>Wemby: \u201cOf course.\u201d<br \/>Q3: \u201cDo you know Quaintance and Reed play chess as well?\u201d<br \/>Wemby: \u201cNo I didn\u2019t. Wait no, I knew about Quaintance but not about Reed\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Obviously, there\u2019s so much more I wanted to ask but, like I said, not easy to think clearly while playing chess. Especially a 3-minutes format, especially against Victor freaking Wembanyama!\u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI got to ask him three questions (the staff encouraged us to do so but it\u2019s quite hard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":844241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,268059,82],"class_list":["post-844240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-san-antonio-spurs-discussion","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}