{"id":45025,"date":"2015-06-05T00:47:04","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T00:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=45025"},"modified":"2015-06-05T00:47:04","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T00:47:04","slug":"twitter-games-chess-and-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=45025","title":{"rendered":"Twitter games: chess and war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; more for the fun and war games file ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s <strong>Aaron Zelin<\/strong>&#8216;s piece,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Islamic State&#39;s Saudi Chess Match &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/azelin\">@azelin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WashInstitute\">@WashInstitute<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/48hnDEr1RD\">http:\/\/t.co\/48hnDEr1RD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Aaron Y. Zelin (@azelin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/azelin\/status\/605822087719063553\">June 2, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s this <strong>DoubleTweet<\/strong> from <strong>Daveed Gartenstein-Ross<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If you thought chess and war were exactly the same, prepare to have your mind blown. <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/FVvx7QEqxc\">http:\/\/t.co\/FVvx7QEqxc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Gartenstein-Ross (@DaveedGR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DaveedGR\/status\/606489888607715328\">June 4, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and (brilliantly played!) <strong>Phineas Fahrquar<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DaveedGR\">@DaveedGR<\/a> So, wait. My private doesn&#39;t promote to general if it makes it to the enemy HQ? Shoot&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Phineas Fahrquar (@irishspy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/irishspy\/status\/606490593489911808\">June 4, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Both the linked pieces are worth your while:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<li>Aaron Zelin, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtoninstitute.org\/policy-analysis\/view\/the-islamic-states-saudi-chess-match\">The Islamic State&#8217;s Saudi Chess Match<\/a>\n<li>Giorgio Bertolin. <a href=\"http:\/\/kingsofwar.org.uk\/2015\/06\/why-chess-is-not-the-right-metaphor-for-human-conflict\/\">Why chess is not the right metaphor for human conflict<\/a><\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; more for the fun and war games file ] . There&#8217;s Aaron Zelin&#8216;s piece, The Islamic State&#39;s Saudi Chess Match &#8211; @azelin, @WashInstitute: http:\/\/t.co\/48hnDEr1RD &mdash; Aaron Y. Zelin (@azelin) June 2, 2015 ** Then there&#8217;s this DoubleTweet from Daveed Gartenstein-Ross: If you thought chess and war were exactly the same, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[841,770,1151,529,393,1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aaron-zelin","category-daveed-gartenstein-ross","category-doubletweets","category-games","category-twitter","category-uncategorized","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45025"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45034,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45025\/revisions\/45034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}