New to chess, or curious about how it all works?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How to play<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n There are plenty of freely available resources online, including an interactive how-to-play section on Lichess: lichess.org\/learn<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Community<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Want to meet other people interested in the game? Check out our list of chess clubs<\/a> to find one near you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Worldwide<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The strongest chess players are called Masters, and the best of them earn the title of Grandmaster. Chess also has a regular World Championship match, the history of which you can read about here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For a list of the best players in the world, see the following: FIDE Top Players<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n For a list of the best players in Alberta or across Canada, use the following tool from the Chess Federation of Canada: CFC Top Players<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n And to learn about the chess ‘rating’, see here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New to chess, or curious about how it all works? How to play There are plenty of freely available resources online, including an interactive how-to-play section on Lichess: lichess.org\/learn Community Want to meet other people interested in the game? Check out our list of chess clubs to find one near you. Worldwide The strongest chess… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4083","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","clear"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4083"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4088,"href":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4083\/revisions\/4088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.albertachess.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}