{"id":781,"date":"2010-02-15T09:05:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T17:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danamackenzie.com\/blog\/?p=781"},"modified":"2010-02-15T09:05:35","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T17:05:35","slug":"get-well-wishes-to-brian-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/?p=781","title":{"rendered":"Get-well wishes to Brian Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Wall, ex-Colorado champion, inventor of such crazy openings as the Fishing Pole and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chessville.com\/Wall\/FullMetalJacket.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Full Metal Jacket<\/a>, occasional reader of this blog, and a guy who apparently has no other life than chess because he manages to post several times a day to his BrianWallChess newsgroup and play zillions of bullet games on ICC,<\/p>\n<p>(deep breath)<\/p>\n<p>yes, <em>that<\/em> Brian Wall is in the hospital, apparently having suffered a heart attack. I don&#8217;t know anything about it except what I read on the BrianWallChess discussion list this morning. The best information seems to come from DuWayne Langseth, who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I talked to Brian Wall this afternoon on the phone and he sounded better than ever.  He said &#8220;this has made me humor enhanced&#8221;.  If you know Brian, besides being a walking encyclopedia set of chess, he is a funny, entertaining guy. Well, I laughed most of the time we talked.<\/p>\n<p>We were scheduled with him to meet at our hotel next Friday to have him motivate our kids and do a group chess lesson the night before the big Scholastic State Championship, and I assumed this would completely derail that plan.  He said, &#8220;I&#8217;ll be there!&#8221;.  I was skeptical, but he left nodoubt that he&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0 up to it.  It sounds like he&#8217;s had some great medical attention and they have a plan to help him recover.<\/p>\n<p>If I hadn&#8217;t heard he had a heart attack, I would not have<br \/>\nknown from talking to him.  I&#8217;m encouraged and hopeful<br \/>\nthat he&#8217;ll be with us for a long time to come.  At the<br \/>\nend of our conversation, he said &#8220;I can dodge bullets,<br \/>\nbaby!&#8221;.  I knew he could on the chess board.<\/p>\n<p>DuWayne Langseth<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Even though I have not had the pleasure to meet Brian in person or over the chessboard, I hope to have the chance to do so soon. For that to happen, we need him to make a full recovery. Get well soon, Brian!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Wall, ex-Colorado champion, inventor of such crazy openings as the Fishing Pole and the Full Metal Jacket, occasional reader of this blog, and a guy who apparently has no other life than chess because he manages to post several times a day to his BrianWallChess newsgroup and play zillions of bullet games on ICC, [&hellip;]<\/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":[25],"tags":[1287,1285,1286,471],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","tag-blog-readers","tag-fishing-pole","tag-full-metal-jacket","tag-heart-attack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781","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=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}