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That's a great feeling isn't it? :)
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GREAT is your gongfu. :pray: :D
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(Gongfu = skill ?)
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SadisticCynic wrote:(Gongfu = skill ?)
Yep. Skill, art, mastery. It's the real word that "kung fu" is based on. :)

(In fact, "kung fu" should actually be pronounced "gong fu", it's just that most people don't know the rules of the Wade-Giles romanization. ;) Aiya! )
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Freakzilla wrote:I noticed one of the CAD people at work had a new, glass chess set on his desk and he asked if I'd like to play a game at lunch. As the morning went on he started talking shit...

Lunch came around and I checkmated him in four moves:

http://www.101chesstips.com/four-move-checkmate.jsp" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

:P

That was the highlight of my day so far...
If you don't know the four move checkmate, you don't deserve to own a chess board!
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Schu wrote:
Freakzilla wrote:I noticed one of the CAD people at work had a new, glass chess set on his desk and he asked if I'd like to play a game at lunch. As the morning went on he started talking shit...

Lunch came around and I checkmated him in four moves:

http://www.101chesstips.com/four-move-checkmate.jsp" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

:P

That was the highlight of my day so far...
If you don't know the four move checkmate, you don't deserve to own a chess board!
...and you especially shouldn't talk shit. :P Good thing is, now he knows and I'm sure it will never happen again.
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