Thread 18096691

>Doesn't solve the problem at all just chimps out
This is like the equivalent of playing Magnus Carlsen at chess, then flipping over the chessboard and saying "Checkmate Magnus"

>>18096691 (OP)
After he cut the knot the knot was for naught and so it's hard to say he did not unknot that knot

>>18096691 (OP)
The answer is whiteness. Instead of trying to unravel the entire political power structure into something he could bend to his will, he cut the knot along its most auspicious line in order to unite His people.

>>18096691 (OP)
>if you win it's chimping out
Shameful. What would Master Sun say of you?

>"Checkmate Magnus"
except for the fact there were no such rules or stipulations for the knot as there are for chess. it only had to be "untied"

>>18096711
There's no rule in chess that says you can't point a gun at your opponents head and force them to resign