Blood and Violence: How chess saved my life.

So why exactly did chess save your life?

Harrah Sir Dubious Duck I look forward to reading more about your adventures in your chess life and life threatening scenarios where your true heroics are visibly apparent.

too much aikido makes 1 run like this

chess helps those who help themselves

Marco ...I on the other hand am very,very worried about your hand to hand combat skills. Clearly you have never been in a fight in your life and purely based on that I should call you names and probably block you.

Which is what I won't do because I am a people person and always try to help.

You sent me a picture of a guy in a full Muy Thai clinch getting kneed. The guy clinching and kneeing is a pro and it might be the third round for all you know so maybe the other guy was a bit slow. Moving out of the way of a knee when you are not in a proper clinch gives you both time and space to move away. I did not have the vet in a clinch at all and even a sub 1600 patzer could move out of the way ,all I had on my side was the element of surprise , so it didn't work. Why can't you just be happy for me? Why must you question and analyze the fight trying to cast a shadow over my account of events? You are taking something beautiful that happened between to people and turning it into something less beautiful. Why man?

You could say he demonstrated the strength of the Queens-side castle.

Dear Dubbie, you misunderstood.

First, I have been in some combats, because I used to go to Karate academy a lot of years ago.

I like to watch UFC fights. That is why I have some pretty good notions of combat.

It is hard for me to imagine how can a person miss a knee attack due a move from the opponent (in Karate, this move is called taisabaki, or ability to get out from attacks).

An attack with the knee is made when the opponent is very close.

I thought you were explaining it because you were drunk - and it is a nice reason, because you can easily miscalculate distance and target.

Nobody in this thread would get close enough to knee me. I like to work the jab, and the ribs.

Dear Marco, I apologize for my previous comment. Having attended an academy of one of the most useless non-contact martial arts in the universe at some point in the past and also watching the UFC clearly puts you in the league of those who know how a proper street fight goes down that has absolutely nothing to do with the parrot like rehearsals of the karate-ka let alone anything that happens with the highly skilled athletes in the UFC. Like my wife, she owns a car and watches F-1 racing from time to time which is why Ferrari always phones her for advice despite the fact that we don't have a single bollard left in out driveway and the fender on her car has been replaced 54 times. ( a bollard are those lights that make you see the drive way)

You probably have a little plastic trophy somewhere and a pile of karate belts you earned in your six months at the academy so the furthest thing from my mind would be to call you a complete and utter nincompoop .

But I am going to call you a moron.

Duck I think you should hire some chess bodyguards

That was no burn. That was a towering inferno

U smokin' quack lad?

This thread has been sabotaged by chess score. We will not give in to the terrorists

We will rebuild.

The terrorist has struck again.

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Some1 needs to settle his score. We will fight him on the pgns, we will fight him on the fens, we will ..