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Old 16-10-2012, 12:54 AM #1
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Seeing as we have one for a lot of the other sports, we need one for the greatest and hardest sport off all.
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I make sure to practice at least an hour a day since I was seven. It is probably one of the hardest sports to master, up there with golf
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Tore a few arm muscles in my day.
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I've played about 20 games against a computer and won one... I'm not great.
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I get whacked against my Brother all the time.
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Can we move this from Sport to Chat & Games please Mods
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But Chess is a Sport.
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Might as well make Snakes and Ladders a sport then
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Go for it lol.
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General Interests sounds like the right section for this thread I think
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it a sport as much as football is a sport
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I did used to play quite a bit when I was younger actually, could probably check mate you in about 10 moves
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i would have you in about three moves
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess

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i would have you in about three moves
Scott would have you and any other Chess player in his bed in 1000 moves.
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I need to get a decent set... only one we have at home is a Simpsons one. We used to have a glass set too but that was a bit tacky. Standard light & dark wood >
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I have some polish handmade set upstairs, I will have to take a picture
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We have a great, fancy set my Grandma gave to us, the pieces are like in the shape of Arab vs Christian crusade armies
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well I have been trumped haven't I
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Yes you have, bet you had just got out your set and laid out all the pieces ready to take a picture as well
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No will do it tomorrow

We will have a chess board-off
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Unfortunately my board is 200 miles away back home, might have to postpone this for a few weeks
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Sounds like someone is not committed to this chess board-off
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