you set up your players then , you take a king
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| User: "Bacon" |
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| Title: Re: LIKE CHESS |
06 May 2006 09:33:18 PM |
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On Sat, 6 May 2006 19:19:58 -0700, "%" <persent@gmail.com> wrote:
you set up your players then , you take a king
I never understood the term Check Mate, are you saying "check it out
Mate, I've won the game."
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| User: "%" |
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| Title: Re: LIKE CHESS |
06 May 2006 09:44:44 PM |
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"Bacon" <rbkfour@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:a1nq5250alu3ibjthk5bgfcca4ui13jpc0@4ax.com...
On Sat, 6 May 2006 19:19:58 -0700, "%" <persent@gmail.com> wrote:
you set up your players then , you take a king
I never understood the term Check Mate, are you saying "check it out
Mate, I've won the game."
no , it's more like , i'm set to kick your *****
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| User: "The Chief Instigator" |
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07 May 2006 12:35:51 AM |
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Bacon <rbkfour@yahoo.com> writes:
On Sat, 6 May 2006 19:19:58 -0700, "%" <persent@gmail.com> wrote:
you set up your players then , you take a king
I never understood the term Check Mate, are you saying "check it out
Mate, I've won the game."
Actually, it's from Persian: "shah mat" - the king is dead. (Russian
borrowed it, and chess in Russian is "shakhmati".)
--
Patrick "The Chief Instigator" Humphrey (patrick@io.com) Houston, Texas
chiefinstigator.us.tt/aeros.php (TCI's 2005-06 Houston Aeros)
LAST GAME: Milwaukee 7, Houston 0 (May 6)
NEXT GAME: Sunday, May 7 vs. Milwaukee, 6:05 (Game 3)
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| User: "slunky" |
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06 May 2006 09:35:58 PM |
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_/ Bacon wrote \_
I never understood the term Check Mate, are you saying "check it out
Mate, I've won the game."
I think it's "check and mate" really. When I was a kid, we'd play that
anytime you put the king in check, you punched the person.
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-slunky
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| User: "%" |
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| Title: Re: LIKE CHESS |
06 May 2006 09:45:47 PM |
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"slunky" <slunky@globalzero.org> wrote in message
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_/ Bacon wrote \_
I never understood the term Check Mate, are you saying "check it out
Mate, I've won the game."
I think it's "check and mate" really. When I was a kid, we'd play that
anytime you put the king in check, you punched the person.
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-slunky
we got hit with a dominoe on the nose when we lost
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| User: "cal" |
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| Title: Re: LIKE CHESS |
07 May 2006 12:20:59 AM |
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"slunky" <slunky@globalzero.org> wrote in message
news:slrne5qn7v.2ldk.slunky@latitude.zero...
_/ Bacon wrote \_
I never understood the term Check Mate, are you saying "check it out
Mate, I've won the game."
I think it's "check and mate" really. When I was a kid, we'd play that
anytime you put the king in check, you punched the person.
yeah, then the other person accidentally pushes the board off the table and
says "oh no, just when i was winning."
i think checkmate is one word. it comes from german, schachmatt, and it
probably goes all the way back to some ancient persian word like shahmat.
shah meaning king as in the shah of iran, and mat probably meaning dead or
captured or something.
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| User: "slunky" |
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| Title: Re: LIKE CHESS |
07 May 2006 12:24:08 AM |
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_/ cal wrote \_
shah meaning king as in the shah of iran, and mat probably meaning dead or
captured or something.
It means ambushed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkmate
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-slunky
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