Is that checkmate, Daddy?
The Little Lady wriggled and wiggled and jiggled on her chair excitedly as her gaze flicked back and forth between me and the chessboard placed between us.
A contemptuous Jabba-like chortling issued out of my face.
Checkmate. Ha, was she having a laugh? I mean, she was fucking eight-years-old. How the fuck was an eight-year-old going to checkmate me?
I mean for fuck sake. I had just watched the whole of The Queens Gambit there was no way I was getting horsed by a child at the ancient game of Kings.
I examined the board to see what absolutely bilge my beautiful young daughter was talking. No doubt she had secreted a fucking unicorn or something onto the board and it was waterbending or some such tosh.
We had been playing non-stop for a couple of months. Someone had mentioned it in her school and she had asked me to teach her.
And teach her I did.
I taught her all the best styles of play. Dragon-Style, Flowing River, you name it, I showed her it. I showed her moves of devastating simplicity and beauty that would bring an opponent to their knees offering their own heart out on bloody loser hands after having torn it from their very own chest.
She had taken to it like a duck to water, insisting on at least a game daily. After the first couple of weeks, she had actually begun playing like a sentient organism and not like a squid flobbing about in a pan of hot water.
She was never going to beat me though. My brain was like a supercomputer with quantum lava spurting through its many crevices.
I didn't want her to lose heart though so I went relatively easy on her when playing and tried my best to keep the winning celebrations down to under a couple of minutes at the end of each game.
Something was wrong though.
I frowned portentously then twitched as a frisson of something that could have been described as fear riffled through my chest.
This wasn't right? I examined the board before me, there was no unicorn. Instead, her Castle was in the row immediately before my king and her queen had sailed in like an old wooden prostitute to grab me in what looked, at least on the surface, Checkmate.
I stifled down one of those burpy shits you get when genuinely terrified.
NO.
The word shouted in my mind.
I mean, just no? I was a ninja at this game. I was so ninja I was practically shitting smoke bombs and throwing stars.
I threw my head back and laughed in nervous horror at this thing that my daughter had become.
It is, Daddy. Isn't it? It's checkmate?
I looked at the board again. Yup, it was fucking checkmate. The little bastard had stabbed me in the back by fucking winning. How dare she?
I pondered my options.
I could graciously and magnanimously accept defeat.
I could shout that there was a massive fox in the garden and when everybody got up to look, tip the board up and mess up all the pieces?
I could look for an excuse, like the laptop that open to my left with the homepage of https://cubdefi.com/ open showing my little cubs plopping out of the ether and into my wallet.
I could claim the mighty Sunday hangover had clouded my thinking and that the beer was to blame?
I took a deep breath.
The Little Lady looked up at me, her eyes gleaming with happiness and excitement.
My decision was made, I would be magnanimous in defeat. It was only fair.
Just then, to my utter astonishment, a massive fox ran into the garden...
Indeed. It is for the best really Boom. To admit defeat would well lesson you in her eyes and that simply would cause the child some harm no doubt. You did the manly thing Boom. No other option, really.
Indeed, she is lucky that they outlawed smacking or I might have to give her a stern paddling to drive home the message!! :0D
Of course! Like they say “Spare the rod, spoil the child.” A good rap on the knuckles taught a lot of manners back in the day lol :D
Haha, if my wife saw these comments there would be murder afoot!!! :0D
Raaar!! I see you, you cute little snow leopard!!!! Muaaowwwr!!
I thought you were bullshitting at first but no... There it is!
Quick, swat the little fecker and get it mounted!
Minted, you mean. NFT it in the butt.
OH yeah, get it on the NFT train. Mkqe it a GIF and 10X the value!!!
Could charge an arm and a leg; then one has something to feed the foxes. In the industry, we call that a "Positive Feedback Loop."
Wow! A perfectly crafted corny joke!
This is what made some doodle artists rich, Boomy you should get in the nft too, it's crazy how some sell their stuff
I like this phrase (Just at that moment, to my total amazement, a huge fox came running into the garden...) but I don't know if I believe it ha,ha,ha, think it's your little lady, what more could you ask for?
Hehe, I could never really be so mean as to deny her her victory. Unless of course... A massive fox ran into the garden! :0D
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ENGAGEtokens.That was the first time I ever saw a Fox or any four-legged spoiler alert in the garden with a flag. Didn't make sense.. like double up on my back rows with a Rook and a Queen. I get it now.
Always gotta double Rook/Queen style! :OD
Didn't mean to short change you, had my trigger set. Here, this will even it out, did you feel it?
Its astonishing!? I didn't feel a thing! Are you a dentist?
I know that dentist. Same dude who does the cough test before x-rays. Never understood why you gotta be naked waist down at the dentist.
But damn I got a nice smile!
A nice smile but the hint of hot fish yoghurt that just won't go away.
Bloody dentists.
I love it. Made me laugh. I watched The Queens Gambit not long ago. And i played several games with @khing.khong a few months back. I think the score was maybe around 8-3 to him. Perhaps he will confirm or correct.
I also played several games a couple of weeks ago with Sean, who stayed at Atmanna while he plastered the outside walls of the house (thanks to @mountainhigh for sorting that). I think the score was about 5-1 to me. They were all good games. During one game though we noticed both my bishops (i think it was) were on the same colour squares, so moved one to where we thought it should have been and continued the game. I won that game but i offered to call it a void game. In hindsight though perhaps the game should have been forfeited by me due to the error. Not sure.
Anyway, thanks for making me smile.
Namaste
ps. Perhaps #NSFW could be added due to the language?
Not sure what the score was in the End, around 8-3 or maybe 8-4. Great game, had 2 games last night won 1 lost 1. To be continued. Looking forward to our next game brother Atma 🙏🏽
It is a fantastic game. I was really keen to get my daughter into it as early as possible as it is something that will stay with her forever. Which I think is a nice gift for the future!
Its always a bummer when you notice something odd about the pairing on the same colour or something that suggests the game is a bogey somewhat.
I don't think nsfw would be at all appropriate, it's a tag for images so that people who are in a formal occasion don't have to fret that someone may see there screen and be horrified by what has popped up on it. Language is a fine thing and needs no warnings. Says I at least :OD
Ah, i wasn't clear on the definition.
and who am i to judge anyway?
Peace & Love brother
Queen's gambit rocked, although I thought the little girl was going to creep me out!
Oh, see that fox??
It was good wasn't it!!
I know what you mean, the main character head a face that would work well in a horror movie!!!
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Did you finish the enire series?
Yes indeed, totally enjoyed it!
Yes!! Now, I need to find another like that one. Cheers to the maintenance man!!
It's a total pest isn't it, the constant search for TV to watch after you finish one! We ended up watching a Finnish crime drama! It was actually quite good
You cannot just say that and then not drop a name! I can't recall any Finnish crime drama so out with it!
Hahahahahaha check mateee, see, your good genes in junior version are starting to catch up on you. Bravo to her!
I have a feeling she will be running even more rings around me the older she gets!
Crafty little devils aren’t they? These kids. They up and surprise you when you least expect it! Thankful for that mysterious fox, out of thin air!
They are indeed! Chekky little devil monkeys! You never realise just how cheeky before you have them!
Ah, The fantastic Mr Fox to the rescue! Check (it out) mate?
Oh ho I spy a pun in my eye!!
Foxes do have their uses!!! ;0)
Thanks for continuing to make Hive awesome.
... and what did the fox say?