{"id":605,"date":"2015-05-12T16:17:14","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T16:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zodiackillerciphers.com\/?p=605"},"modified":"2015-05-12T16:17:54","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T16:17:54","slug":"did-a-chess-grandmaster-solve-the-340","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zodiackillerciphers.com\/did-a-chess-grandmaster-solve-the-340\/","title":{"rendered":"Did a chess grandmaster solve the 340?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The World Chess Federation in Las Vegas, NV is involved in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/2015\/05\/12\/chess-hall-of-fame-fight-resumes.htm\" target=\"_new\">a dispute over trademark infringement<\/a>.  The web site for the World Chess Federation has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcfchess.org\/wp\/about-stan-vaughan\/\" target=\"_new\">profile<\/a> of its founder Stan Vaughan which includes this claim:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Grand Master Stan\u2019s expertise as a cryptanalyst led him being noted for having solved two of the most important previously unsolved ciphers in the world: The Shugborough Hall Monument cipher for which he had received an award from the Reform Club, <b>and the Zodiac Serial Killer 340 character cipher<\/b>. Stan was also a National Trivial Pursuit Champion of 1986.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I cannot find any references that mention his solution.  Does anyone know anything about it?  I am attempting to contact Mr. Vaughan to see if he will give more information about his solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Chess Federation in Las Vegas, NV is involved in a dispute over trademark infringement. The web site for the World Chess Federation has a profile of its founder Stan Vaughan which includes this claim: Grand Master Stan\u2019s expertise&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zodiackillerciphers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zodiackillerciphers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zodiackillerciphers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zodiackillerciphers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zodiackillerciphers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/zodiackillerciphers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":607,"href":"https:\/\/zodiackillerciphers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zodiackillerciphers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zodiackillerciphers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zodiackillerciphers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}