So I can see that you've done nothing since I've been gone. Typical.

**It is Fake** · Posted On: 8/29/2012 5:27pm

Originally Posted by Permalost

Last week, a friend of mine and I learned that we both played chess, so we played a game. I won in a few moves with classic dick strategy of going straight for the king with the queen along a diagonal within the first few moves of the game when the king's still surrounded by its own pieces. Is there a name for that?

Yes, luck.

**Mr. Machette** · Posted On: 8/29/2012 5:28pm

Originally Posted by W. Rabbit

Who said I was trying? I wasn't the one who started picking on Omega's word choices.

Wait...you didn't read the actual thread did you? You just came in this one to cry.

I refuse to enter into a semantic argument with you about semantics.

That just way too meta...

**ChenPengFi** · Posted On: 8/29/2012 5:33pm

Originally Posted by Permalost

Last week, a friend of mine and I learned that we both played chess, so we played a game. I won in a few moves with classic dick strategy of going straight for the king with the queen along a diagonal within the first few moves of the game when the king's still surrounded by its own pieces. Is there a name for that?

What Fake said, but sounds like "Scholar's mate", or the "Fool's mate".

**RWaggs** · Posted On: 8/29/2012 5:33pm

Originally Posted by Permalost

Last week, a friend of mine and I learned that we both played chess, so we played a game. I won in a few moves with classic dick strategy of going straight for the king with the queen along a diagonal within the first few moves of the game when the king's still surrounded by its own pieces. Is there a name for that?

There is. I can't remember what it is....and your friend does not "play chess" if it worked.

**Permalost** · Posted On: 8/29/2012 5:35pm

Originally Posted by RWaggs

There is. I can't remember what it is....and your friend does not "play chess" if it worked.

This was an ADHD motorcycle afficionado who learned to play on a trip to China, so I figured his game wasn't very good.

**Wing-Kwan-Fu** · Posted On: 8/29/2012 9:17pm

This isn't Your Word Usage Sucks, but neither is it Your Chess Partner Sucks...

Originally Posted by W. Rabbit

A gambetto means to trick your opponent into ending up on his ass, using your legs.

To run a gambit means to throw your opponent onto his ass by being deceptive..

Find a source for this and I will eat my balls live on webcam.

Originally Posted by Omega Supreme

1 round kickboxing
1 round grappling
1 round sanda
1 round mma
1 round weapons
1 round Jiu Jitsu

So you ran the gamut of rulesets with him. Or he "ran the gauntlet"--but only him, because he was the one getting his ass kicked. Your gambit, in this case, would have been the first tactic with which you opened a given round, or any risky trick you used.

In Googling this stuff (you should try it!) I also found the fun fact that "run the gauntlet" was originally "run the gantlet" or "...gantelope", but we mixed it up with "gauntlet" as in "an armored glove", and it stuck. Also this.

I happen to like talking about word usage almost as much as I like playing jiujitsu...but I wouldn't do this in a thread that wasn't already so, well. So like this.

***Omega Supreme*** · Posted On: 8/29/2012 9:35pm

Originally Posted by Wing-Kwan-Fu

This isn't Your Word Usage Sucks, but neither is it Your Chess Partner Sucks...

Find a source for this and I will eat my balls live on webcam.

So you ran the gamut of rulesets with him. Or he "ran the gauntlet"--but only him, because he was the one getting his ass kicked. Your gambit, in this case, would have been the first tactic with which you opened a given round, or any risky trick you used.

In Googling this stuff (you should try it!) I also found the fun fact that "run the gauntlet" was originally "run the gantlet" or "...gantelope", but we mixed it up with "gauntlet" as in "an armored glove", and it stuck. Also this.

I happen to like talking about word usage almost as much as I like playing jiujitsu...but I wouldn't do this in a thread that wasn't already so, well. So like this.

Yeah...no. I chose to use the word gambit which is a synonym for gauntlet.

I'm not going to keep going around in circles on this matter.

**Tom .C** · Posted On: 8/29/2012 9:40pm

Originally Posted by Omega Supreme

Yeah...no. I chose to use the word gambit which is a synonym for gauntlet.

I'm not going to keep going around in circles on this matter.

If you don't change it to "a Hurricane of Fightey Stuff" sadly, I'll never get it.

**ermghoti** · Posted On: 8/30/2012 10:35am

HURTICANE!

**Smackjack** · Posted On: 8/31/2012 12:19pm

Originally Posted by Alex

I have to assume he thinks he is faster than he actually is. or hes fucking retarded or something. i keep my hands fucking glued to my face because i know im an inelegant, slow sonofabitch.

That and it's also in part of his TKD training. I do something similar, sometimes on purpose, it's kind of predictable to see what your opponent is doing next when there is some distance.
however, if the opponent happens to be fast, my hands become glued to my head.
IMO. I think it's a bad habit that comes out involuntarily or subconsciously. Against a decent boxer(golden gloves competitor status), and you'll be in for a treat if you continue to do that.