Chess Koans

                            Traditional Zen Koans

 1)   What is the sound of one hand clapping?

 2)   A pilgrim traveled many months to reach the monastery of the Zen Master.  When he arrived, he asked the master:  "May I become your student?  I want to spend the rest of my life here, seeking enlightenment."

       The master said "Have you eaten your rice?"

       The pilgrim said "Yes."

       "Then wash your bowl."

        The pilgrim said "Ah."  And he left, enlightened.

Anybody got any chess koans?

I'll start:

A student was playing chess on his phone during a class.

The teacher called on the student and asked him what he was doing.

The student replied that he was trying to master the game.

The teacher said, "There exists a state in which you will not attempt to master the game, and the game will not attempt to master you."

The student asked, "What is this state?"

The teacher said, "Give me your phone, and I will show you."

The student gave him the phone, and the teacher threw it to the ground, breaking it into pieces. The student was enlightened.

Hey, Blobby -- I just re-started this under General Chess Discussion -- so That's where the Action will be!  (teehee)

Right ... I guess ... why don't you try posting on the Other (identical) forum and we'll see what happens....? ()

No! No!  Post it on the Other site!  ;-D!!

Seems wise ...... Oh, that means you ARE Enlighted! !

I had to look up "koans". Never heard of it before:)

What happened to all the other posts in this thread ?

Oh! There are two threads!

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/chess-koans

Whew!

MIL what to do if these double threads are making me dizzy?  I need air.

A Koan is if I asked MIL to dinner we went dutch, and she called me cheap, that's a Koan?   

A Koan is something with a wide base which tapers to a point.

You're all enlightened now.

A Koan is an edible thingy which holds ice cream but spelled wrong.

A koan is the sticky build up of stuff on the remote?

A koan doesn't fall far from the tree.

A chess player sought enlightment by reading koans. "Master," he said, "what is the purpose of having two chess koan threads?"  The Master replied "If there were not two threads, chess players would suffer no confusion."

And the chess player was enlightened.

For Mother's Day I'm having roast pork and koan on the cob.

Your mother will be proud.

A chess hustler was playing  game for $10 with black. The white knight delivered a smothered mate and put him in the red. He renounced his name.