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For Christmas we received an extremely cool version of chess.\u00a0 Four player chess.\u00a0 It just looked so much fun, I imagined the three older boys playing it along with me and voila!\u00a0 There we were.\u00a0 It was tougher than it looked.\u00a0 It actually ended up going fast since the three oldest of us spent so much time focusing on each other we forgot to watch my 11 year old sneak in and take us out one at a time.\u00a0 Well, I took out my 16 year old, only to see that I was pretty much five moves from checkmate any way I turned.\u00a0 All this after I fell victim to my youngest boy\u2019s two and a half year old chess moves earlier in the day!\u00a0 Fun stuff!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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