{"id":63,"date":"2005-04-18T23:24:25","date_gmt":"2005-04-19T07:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.horace.org\/blog\/?p=63"},"modified":"2009-04-14T20:38:32","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T04:38:32","slug":"last-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horace.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/18\/last-game\/","title":{"rendered":"last game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Bell is leaving the company, today is his last day.  He is the grand master at work, and he is the person got me interested in playing Chess.  He used to played with Jackson alot, Jackson quit playing after his interest faded after a while, but Andrew still play with me quite often.  Although I still not able to beat him, I did learn a lot from his moves and strategy.  Through him, I can see my weakness in my playing.  Today I had my last chess game with him before he left.  It&#8217;s a close game, and I lost to him in the end-game moves.  Playing against Gordon is fun,  I don&#8217;t think my skill will improve much from his pure responsive moves.  In the games I lost to him, either Andrew is the puppet master or I just made plain silly mistakes.  Now after Andrew is gone, I think I will cut my chess at work to just once per week.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Bell is leaving the company, today is his last day. He is the grand master at work, and he is the person got me interested in playing Chess. He used to played with Jackson alot, Jackson quit playing after his interest faded after a while, but Andrew still play with me quite often. 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