As many of my blog readers know, I’m working on a book project that has taken a lot of my time away from chess this year. That’s why I haven’t played in a chess tournament since February. It’s been hard to pass up on so many tournaments, because I usually like to play in at least five or six tournaments a year. It’s also been harder for me to keep the blog fresh with interesting material, because tournaments are usually my best topics.<\/p>\n
Well, now it’s really coming down to crunch time for the book. My deadline is less than three months away, and I have to give all my attention to finishing it. I can’t really do a quality job on the book and also spend the amount of time it takes to write a quality chess blog. So with a little bit of sorrow, I’m going to take a break from the chess blog for the rest of the year.<\/span><\/p>\n I hate it when blogs take a hiatus or a vacation or whatever you might call it, because too often they never come back. But this is just for three months! It is definitely my intention to come back, and I mean both writing the blog and playing in tournament chess. I appreciate all of you who have read my blog regularly over the years, and I hope you will come back in January, when I expect to start posting again. Meanwhile, good luck and good skill to all of you who are still participating in the chess arena. I’ll join you soon!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As many of my blog readers know, I’m working on a book project that has taken a lot of my time away from chess this year. That’s why I haven’t played in a chess tournament since February. It’s been hard to pass up on so many tournaments, because I usually like to play in at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1363,171],"tags":[3661,2137,871,1020],"class_list":["post-4526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-news","category-ruminations","tag-appreciations","tag-hiatus","tag-real-life","tag-vacation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4527,"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526\/revisions\/4527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}