{"id":253775,"date":"2025-07-19T23:21:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T13:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=9a00b1854ee495a2d7931b2677e55f3a"},"modified":"2025-07-19T23:21:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T13:21:00","slug":"west-midlands-railway-hosts-uks-first-on-train-chess-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=253775","title":{"rendered":"West Midlands Railway hosts UK\u2019s first on-train chess tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/WMR-hosts-UKs-first-chess-tournament-on-a-train.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"Chess tournament participants (L-R) Afolarin Oyeleke (26), Joseph Wilson (20), Benjamen Abakpereh (26), Godson Obikoru (27)\" style=\"display: block; margin: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; max-width: 100%;\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/WMR-hosts-UKs-first-chess-tournament-on-a-train.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/WMR-hosts-UKs-first-chess-tournament-on-a-train-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/WMR-hosts-UKs-first-chess-tournament-on-a-train-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/WMR-hosts-UKs-first-chess-tournament-on-a-train-750x422.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/WMR-hosts-UKs-first-chess-tournament-on-a-train-624x351.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/WMR-hosts-UKs-first-chess-tournament-on-a-train-600x338.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>West Midlands Railway (WMR) is boasting that the chess tournament it has hosted today (18 July) is the UK\u2019s first on board a moving train.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Midlands Railway (WMR) is boasting that the chess tournament it has hosted today (18 July) is the UK\u2019s first on board a moving train.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2406,3832,3833,2370,2309,47,2376,2413],"tags":[12406],"class_list":["post-253775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birmingham","category-class-730","category-lichfield","category-midlands","category-network","category-rail-news","category-west-midlands","category-west-midlands-railway","tag-rail-advent"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253776,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253775\/revisions\/253776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}