{"id":672,"date":"2023-12-10T09:29:33","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T09:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/piermontchess.com\/?p=672"},"modified":"2023-12-17T18:49:35","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T18:49:35","slug":"select-games-from-december-classic-day-2-12-9-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/piermontchess.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/10\/select-games-from-december-classic-day-2-12-9-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Select Games From December Classic Day 2, 12\/9\/23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>*<em>If you would like us to post one of your games, send us a PGN file from lichess.com or chess.com, or hand in a scoresheet at the end of any tournament.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Josh Pinchuk vs. Billy Zifchak<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/lichess.org\/embed\/game\/Bve5Oc4m?theme=auto&#038;bg=auto\"\nwidth=600 height=397 frameborder=0><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>A solid game lost by an unfortunate blunder. Josh kept things tight with 96% accuracy. Though Billy&#8217;s strong opening earned him 85%, it wasn&#8217;t enough to make up the loss of his knight, and the defense quickly came apart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tom Nassisi vs. Kareem Khan <\/h5>\n\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/lichess.org\/embed\/game\/Cr7779di?theme=auto&#038;bg=auto#0\"\nwidth=600 height=397 frameborder=0><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Tom and Kareem had great battle! Tom unfortunately was a move late for a nasty queen pin, and Kareem ultimately took the win with well connected rooks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Peter Graham vs. Kareem Khan<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/lichess.org\/embed\/game\/ykN4FHrq?theme=auto&#038;bg=auto#0\"\nwidth=600 height=397 frameborder=0><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>An incredible performance from Kareem (91% accuracy!) even though Peter took this game with the masterful (96%!) utilization of his off-beat Polish opening. Great job by both!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Billy Zifchak vs. Anna Kupchik<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/lichess.org\/embed\/game\/A9AnGQIy?theme=auto&#038;bg=auto#0\"\nwidth=600 height=397 frameborder=0><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>A wild game for Billy and Anna.  He stumbled his way through an English opening, while she did a great job coordinating pieces, and taking an early lead with lots of pressure down the middle of the board.  Billy weaseled out of a cramped position with a discovered attack on Anna&#8217;s queen which turned the tables, but Anna held on to move 52! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*If you would like us to post one of your games, send us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/piermontchess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/piermontchess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/piermontchess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piermontchess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piermontchess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/piermontchess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":715,"href":"https:\/\/piermontchess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions\/715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/piermontchess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piermontchess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piermontchess.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}