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EldonTexodus
06/29/09

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Why... oh why... does EVERY frickin' picture of a chessboard have it set up wrong? A white square should be in the right hand corner for each player, not the left.
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GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
06/29/09

@EldonTexodus: If it's every picture, have you ever pondered that perhaps YOU'RE dyslexic?
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bucho54
06/29/09

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Very cool to look at, but most likely very impractical. I doubt you can touch those tubes to move them when they warm up. Unless they don't get as hot as tubes in tube amps.
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GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
06/29/09

@bucho54: Yeah, that's the reason the Corn-baller chess set never caught on.
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badhatharry
06/29/09

@WearingBlue4BillyMays_GitEmSte...: You all are off having a great time playing chess and corn holing while Buster's left out.
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PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:
06/29/09

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Can they randomly light up so you can play whack-a-mole with it since chess sucks?
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DefineStatutory
06/29/09

@Purple Monkey Dishwasher:

aww...were you that kid who always played checkers because all those different moves were confusing? :)

I'm not a chess snob by any means, but with a decent opponent, chess is a great game.
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Kaiser-Machead
06/29/09

@Purple Monkey Dishwasher: Don't let these chess fanboys get you down. They'll never appreciate the subtle awesomeness of Connect Four.
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GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
06/29/09

@Kaiser-Machead: I got you Sis. 4 in a row!
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Hello Mister Walrus
06/29/09

@DefineStatutory: You people have no sense of humor.

But anyway, if there was StarCraft 500 years ago, do you think people would have bothered to invent chess?
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GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
06/29/09

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Can the next one have Nixie tubes instead of vacuum tubes? I like them more.
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