{"id":995,"date":"2026-05-27T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eugigufo.net\/en\/?p=995"},"modified":"2026-05-26T21:55:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:55:20","slug":"a-special-chess-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eugigufo.net\/en\/blog\/995\/","title":{"rendered":"A Special Chess Operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The science-fiction writer (a&nbsp;good one) and programmer (apparently an&nbsp;equally good one, although I&nbsp;am not very familiar with his digital products) Leonid Kaganov published yesterday a&nbsp;modern chess game entitled &laquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/lleo.me\/dnevnik\/2026\/05\/25_SSO\">OSS&nbsp;&mdash; Special Chess Operation<\/a>&raquo;.<br \/>\nIt&nbsp;had been quite a&nbsp;long time since&nbsp;I had last played even an&nbsp;ordinary game of&nbsp;chess (that&nbsp;is, one not involving special operations), but&nbsp;I nevertheless managed, on&nbsp;my&nbsp;very first attempt, to&nbsp;defeat the dark forces, superior both in&nbsp;numbers and cunning. The battle ended in&nbsp;a&nbsp;highly realistic fashion:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lleo.me\/dnevnik\/2026\/05\/25_SSO\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/eugigufo.net\/images\/wpblogs\/shakhmatylleome260526.jpg\" title=\"Special Chess Operation\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>\nI&nbsp;wish everyone the same success.<br \/>\nP.S. At&nbsp;the moment, Leonid Kaganov is&nbsp;looking for remote programming work in&nbsp;a&nbsp;Russian-speaking team based somewhere in&nbsp;the West. I&nbsp;cannot act as&nbsp;an&nbsp;intermediary in&nbsp;this matter, but I&nbsp;can at&nbsp;least publicise the fact itself. Well, I&nbsp;have just done&nbsp;so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The science-fiction writer (a&nbsp;good one) and programmer (apparently an&nbsp;equally good one, although I&nbsp;am not very familiar with his digital products) Leonid Kaganov published yesterday a&nbsp;modern chess game entitled &laquo;OSS&nbsp;&mdash; Special Chess Operation&raquo;. It&nbsp;had been quite a&nbsp;long time since&nbsp;I had last played even an&nbsp;ordinary game of&nbsp;chess (that&nbsp;is, one not involving special operations), but&nbsp;I nevertheless managed, on&nbsp;my&nbsp;very <a href=\"https:\/\/eugigufo.net\/en\/blog\/995\/\">[&#8230;]<br \/>Read more >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[21,20],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","tag-chess","tag-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eugigufo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eugigufo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eugigufo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eugigufo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eugigufo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eugigufo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":996,"href":"https:\/\/eugigufo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions\/996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eugigufo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eugigufo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eugigufo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}