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fundamentals

On-Yomi: キ — Kun-Yomi: もと、もとい

Koohii stories:

1) [vosmiura] 11-12-2007(218): Fundamentals of chess: use the rooks to protect your ground.

2) [bigloui] 9-4-2006(28): A Bushel-basket full of earth contains the fundementals of farming. i.e. earth.

3) [radical_tyro] 13-7-2007(27): Before playing chess, you must learn the fundamentals: begin by placing a rook on the ground.

4) [Hyland1] 22-5-2013(20): I took a course on the fundamentals of bushel basket-weaving. They teach you everything from the ground up. (sweetneet variation).

5) [Django] 18-1-2008(16): One doesn't become a grand master over night. Before he could graduate to using a real chess board, Garry Kasparov had to master the fundamentals of the game by drawing chess boards in a piledirt. (a pile of dirt that he was for some reason straddling, I might add).

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