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If you were at an old shrine, and spirits from the after world contacted you there giving you lottery numbers, would you go and place a bet or buy some tickets? Let's say you do but the spirits who spoke to you went and gave you the wrong lottery numbers, would you return and smash their shrine up to get revenge for your loss of time and money?

Someone did. But to be fair, if I were going to smash up a shrine I would have to have a very good reason, and being given the wrong lottery numbers is right up there if you ask me. But I would do it whilst sober and not drunk, like the man in the story did. I mean of all the things to go wrong at a shrine, it had to be that! Those spirits stitched him up proper! That aside, what would you assess the FIDE rating of the person in question to be? Based on his logic and calculation skills, I think he might be a GM.

https://www.77kaoded.com/news/diawkongsin/2318069

No one is going to comment and that's not surprising. I found that article and the many threads attached to it to be so funny, maybe I should have kept it to myself and not posted.

I guess the forum must just be lacking in fluent readers of sand script or whatever language that website is written in, kind of makes sense a ghost would screw you over though - every time you ever hear stories about them they are going round haunting or possessing people so it's safe to assume they don't much like the living.

James Plaskett wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 13, 2023 11:46 pm

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Thanks James, that's a rather intriguing blog you have there. Going on the original post, I am assuming its not the case that in your long career you never followed suit, went to a shrine, heard voices from beyond the grave offering advice over your opening repertoire, put them into practice OTB and lost as a result, then returned to the same shrine and smashed it up?

Oh every day that happens!

he he, good man. Keep up the fighting spirit.