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OLDSTER IS A GAME CHOMP-ION

An elderly man bit the thumb off a 71-year-old foe during a fight over a board game at a Queens senior center, authorities said yesterday. Bok Jin Kim, 74, allegedly began taunting his victim, Sang Lee, as Lee was playing Go -- a Chinese game of strategy -- with a pal at the Korean American Senior Center in Corona the afternoon of July 15. "Why did you make that move?" Kim allegedly snipped at Lee. "You're going to lose!" Lee angrily responded, "It's none of your business," and the pair started heatedly arguing, law-enforcement sources said. Kim then allegedly grabbed Lee by the shirt, leaned over and chomped down on his victim's thumb so hard that the tip, including the thumbnail, was severed, the sources said. Lee was rushed to a nearby hospital, where doctors were unable to reattach the piece of thumb, according to the police report. Kim was charged with assault. - reported by Jessica Simeone in the July 28 edition of The New York Post