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It was great to see a crass, rude, arrogant genius humbled by stoicism.

Hey, that describes you beating me in chess! :-)

Except you're the genius and not me. And I'd describe you not so much as stoic, but rather silently ruthless. Like a big cat on the hunt, tracking an unsuspecting fawn as it nibbles on the new shoots of spring. You wait with an eternal patience. The fawn will drop its head to feast on some tempting morsel and at that moment you'll strike.

There! He fell into the trap set by the flawless execution of the 1908 Alexiev-Crawford reverse rook gambit! And just like that the pawn is moved to the center of the board. The fawn is left gasping for breath, it's eyes wide in fright. The big cat then stretches out and waits.

And waits.

And waits.