{"id":66510,"date":"2011-02-15T12:08:31","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T08:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=66510"},"modified":"2011-02-15T12:08:58","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T08:08:58","slug":"kasparov-wins-20000-lari-in-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/02\/15\/kasparov-wins-20000-lari-in-georgia.html","title":{"rendered":"Kasparov Wins 20,000 Lari in Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World-renown chess player, Russian opposition member Garry Kasparov, who is currently in Georgia, participated in the Georgian TV program &#8220;Who Wants 20,000?&#8221; (a spin on &#8220;Who Wants to be a Millionaire?&#8221;) on the Rustavi-2 channel \u2014 and became the first participant of all time who was able to correctly answer all of the presenters&#8217; 15 questions.<\/p>\n<p>Kasparov won 20,000 Georgian lari (more than $11,000 US), promising to give the money to charity. Specifically, the money will be used for heart surgery on two children.<\/p>\n<p>Note, Kasparov was able to respond to the last question only with the help of his wife.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope the money will help the children, so you can say my day was not in vain,&#8221; he said after the broadcast, while admitting he had been nervous.<\/p>\n<p>Note, the former world chess champion will be in Tbilisi for 5 days, during which time he plans to give a few lectures to Georgian students and meet with representatives of Georgia&#8217;s chess federation.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> World-renown chess player, Russian opposition member Garry Kasparov, who is currently in Georgia, participated in the Georgian&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[21795,21794,21862],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}