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winnowing fan

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Koohii stories:

1) [mantixen] 27-7-2009(11): A winnowing fan made of bamboo is used to cool off the basketball player.

2) [blannk] 21-1-2010(10): Bamboo, chess. Winnow, from Old English windwian, to remove (as chaff) by a current of air. It's a little known fact that Bobby Fischer's classic win with black in the third game against Boris Spassky was the result of one white pawn made of bamboo rather than boxwood, which was light enough to be blown away when the mechanism Fischer had rigged to his clock turned on a winnowing fan in the remote control camera he had been fiddling with before the match.

3) [At0m5k] 19-8-2009(10): The hard working peasants get a little annoyed watching the aristocrats sitting around playing chess, so they start a revolt and whack the chess board and pieces away with their bamboo winnowing baskets..

4) [dancingblade] 7-9-2010(6): The chess player has a bamboo fan that he brings along to his matches for good luck. It has the power to make the user WIN NOW. Thus it is a winnowing fan.

5) [Elphalpo] 15-7-2010(3): A bunch of chess pieces got dropped into a pile of bamboo sticks, so they used a winnowing fan to separate the bamboo from the chess pieces.

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