{"id":2373,"date":"2011-08-04T19:41:54","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T23:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghostlysubstance.swgbex.com\/Blog\/?p=2373"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:37:53","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:37:53","slug":"shinki-kohiru-fubuki-playing-chess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/?p=2373","title":{"rendered":"Shinki Kohiru &#038; Fubuki playing Chess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello again! This time I thought I&#8217;d experiment with how intelligent my Shinki&#8217;s are with Chess, and to see how well they play. Why not? Would also boost their positive morale program!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/august\/P1110314.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"551\" height=\"310\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Link &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/august\/P1110314.jpg\">MySite<\/a>) &#8211; <em>The pre-game stare down.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(All images taken with a Lumix GF1 &#8211; Pancake lens.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Was a mostly nice day so brought Kohiru and Fubuki out to witness the brief joys of Canadian summer. Was a bit hot and humid so we settled on a game of chess, even if they never played before and are programmed in a Japanese manner. Well, shall we see how well the game goes?<\/p>\n<p>There was a large Raven, or a massive crow, scavenging for food when I arrived. S\/he kept on overlooking these Shinki&#8217;s playing their Chess game every now and again probably imagining them as the crackers that the birdy just ate. Was amusing to observe.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/august\/P1110276.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"552\" height=\"310\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Link &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/august\/P1110276.jpg\">MySite<\/a>) &#8211; <em>Chess board being set up.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/august\/P1110277.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"554\" height=\"310\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Link &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/august\/P1110277.jpg\">MySite<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/august\/P1110280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"310\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Link &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/august\/P1110280.jpg\">MySite<\/a>) &#8211; <em>The first move!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/august\/P1110283.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"552\" height=\"310\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Link &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/august\/P1110283.jpg\">MySite<\/a>) &#8211; <em>Surprisingly you couldn&#8217;t hear any noises or hums from their hardware from the over-thinking.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/august\/P1110284.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"310\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Link &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/august\/P1110284.jpg\">MySite<\/a>) &#8211; <em>Horse attacks pawn!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/august\/P1110285.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"310\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Link &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/august\/P1110285.jpg\">MySite<\/a>) &#8211; <em>Fubuki points out the lurking Raven.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/august\/P1110287.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"310\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Link &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/august\/P1110287.jpg\">MySite<\/a>) &#8211;<em> Shinki&#8217;s attack animals? Never. They&#8217;re too kind&#8230;.I hope.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/august\/P1110290.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"554\" height=\"310\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Link &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/august\/P1110290.jpg\">MySite<\/a>) &#8211; <em>Raven? Massive crow?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/august\/P1110293.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"551\" height=\"310\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Link &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/august\/P1110293.jpg\">MySite<\/a>) &#8211; <em>But back to the game at hand, progress was made!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/august\/P1110295.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"551\" height=\"310\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Link &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/august\/P1110295.jpg\">MySite<\/a>) &#8211; <em>Kohiru doesn&#8217;t mind the loses. It&#8217;s all fun and games!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/august\/P1110296.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"310\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Link &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/august\/P1110296.jpg\">MySite<\/a>) &#8211;<em> Check!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/august\/P1110297.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"310\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Link &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/august\/P1110297.jpg\">MySite<\/a>) &#8211; <em>Hello again!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/august\/P1110299.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"554\" height=\"310\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Link &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/august\/P1110299.jpg\">MySite<\/a>) &#8211; <em>Too painful! The attack hurts!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/august\/P1110302.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"310\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Link &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/august\/P1110302.jpg\">MySite<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Was partly cloudy so the sun was constantly going in and out of the clouds. The blurryness! Noo! Still a nice image!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/august\/P1110304.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"551\" height=\"310\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Link &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/august\/P1110304.jpg\">MySite<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>&#8211; Fubuki shouts: &#8220;Look Master! I won! I won!<\/em><br \/>\n<em>&#8211; *Kohiru claps*<\/em><br \/>\n<em>&#8211; Me: Awesome! Did you girls have fun? <\/em><br \/>\n<em>&#8211; Kohiru and Fubuki: Hai!~ (yes).<\/em><br \/>\n<em>&#8211; Me: Glad to hear! \ud83d\ude42<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/august\/P1110306.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"341\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Link &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/august\/P1110306.jpg\">MySite<\/a>) &#8211;<em> And the good girls that they are, they decided to clean up after themselves haha.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/august\/P1110311.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"310\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Link &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/august\/P1110311.jpg\">MySite<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Then they decided to simply &#8220;hang out&#8221;. Oh the puns, so horrid XD.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/august\/P1110315.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"554\" height=\"310\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Link &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/august\/P1110315.jpg\">MySite<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/august\/P1110320.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"551\" height=\"310\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Link &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/august\/P1110320.jpg\">MySite<\/a>) &#8211; <em>Fubuki tried climbing up but the branch was quite light.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/august\/P1110324.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"414\" height=\"310\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Link &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/august\/P1110324.jpg\">MySite<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/august\/P1110330.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"414\" height=\"310\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Link &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/august\/P1110330.jpg\">MySite<\/a>) &#8211; Quite a balance :o.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/august\/P1110331.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"340\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Link &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arcticukitsu.com\/Blog\/blogpics\/august\/P1110331.jpg\">MySite<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Ah, awesome! Guess I&#8217;ll let them try other board games next to see how that goes haha! And it got a bit too humid for my liking so they jumped back into their travel case and back home we went. Wanted to take more images but as I said, the humidity there was nuts. A few more summer days left then more fall photoshoots. Anyways, hope you enjoyed and thanks for viewing!<\/p>\n<p>Peace! Kon!~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello again! This time I thought I&#8217;d experiment with how intelligent my Shinki&#8217;s are with Chess, and to see how well they play. Why not? Would also boost their positive morale program! (Link &#8211; MySite) &#8211; The pre-game stare down. 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