{"id":18501,"date":"2022-04-05T06:12:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T09:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=18501"},"modified":"2022-04-05T06:12:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T09:12:11","slug":"meet-9-year-old-kari-hanach-of-lebanese-ancestry-chess-champion-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2022\/04\/05\/meet-9-year-old-kari-hanach-of-lebanese-ancestry-chess-champion-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet 9-year-old Kari Hanach, of Lebanese ancestry, chess champion in the UK!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Congrats.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18504\" width=\"470\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Congrats.jpg 624w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Congrats-300x137.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 85vw, 470px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Lebanon has many brilliant chess players. Some win tournaments abroad. Some participate in domestic tournaments, even post-explosions and in pandemics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-961\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"iuXByf1xTI\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.the961.com\/lebanese-chess-tournament-third-edition-beirut\/\">A Chess Tournament Was Just Held In Beirut<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;A Chess Tournament Was Just Held In Beirut&#8221; &#8212; 961\" src=\"https:\/\/www.the961.com\/lebanese-chess-tournament-third-edition-beirut\/embed\/#?secret=p8n87LNbE7#?secret=iuXByf1xTI\" data-secret=\"iuXByf1xTI\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Well today, Lebanon is proud as his UK-based-champion is just 9-year-old (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lorientlejour.com\/article\/1292709\/a-9-ans-un-joueur-dechecs-libanais-devient-champion-en-angleterre.html\">https:\/\/www.lorientlejour.com\/article\/1292709\/a-9-ans-un-joueur-dechecs-libanais-devient-champion-en-angleterre.html<\/a>).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is refreshing to finally read a piece of happy news related to Lebanon. Bravo Kari and &#8220;Mabrouk&#8221; to you and to your proud family from Bambi :)! Keep up your passion, talent, practice, and attitude!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"9-Year-Old Boy Defeats A Professional Chess Streamer\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CS3RauXJzBA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, Bambi cannot conclude this brief post without a song to Kari and his parents. Guess which song? Of course, it is the <em>Mabrouk <\/em>song to their\/our champion :).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Ramy Ayach- Mabrouk (\u0631\u0627\u0645\u064a \u0627\u064a\u0627\u0634- \u0645\u0627\u0628\u0631\u0648\u0643)\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3KyBbiiUQDU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/heart-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18507\" width=\"146\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/heart-5.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/heart-5-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 146px) 85vw, 146px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lebanon has many brilliant chess players. Some win tournaments abroad. Some participate in domestic tournaments, even post-explosions and in pandemics. Well today, Lebanon is proud as his UK-based-champion is just 9-year-old (https:\/\/www.lorientlejour.com\/article\/1292709\/a-9-ans-un-joueur-dechecs-libanais-devient-champion-en-angleterre.html). It is refreshing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18501"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18510,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18501\/revisions\/18510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}