Playing my daily lunchtime game of Chinese chess with Laozhang, Beijing 1980. He regularly instructed me to re-consider moves (even suggesting alternatives), always won, and never missed an opportunity to tell anyone who would listen what an amazing chess player I was. We shared less than an hour together, four times a week for several months, but this picture always reminds me of the many life (and chess) lessons this revolutionary veteran with only one front tooth taught me.
Whenever there are three of us walking together, one must be my teacher. -Confucius
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