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- From: ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz)
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: Re: Chess match
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 04:25:50 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
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- References: <1gme7qINNa7l@newsman.csu.murdoch.edu.au> <1992Dec16.172503.7253@data-io.com> <1h7r9hINNs3q@newsman.csu.murdoch.edu.au>
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- >>"Hmmm... best make that 4-d with four people." Liralen says with a smile.
- >>"I can't play chess to save my life... even took a workshop in it and was
- >>systematically the worst player in the class. The instructor actually sat
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Splash follows:
- > "a system? in chess? I've never found it :-)
- >>down with me for an entire class time and eventually threw up his hands."
-
- "Actually, it makes sense," notes Abner. "She had a chess system which
- involved making the same moves each time, no matter what her opponent did.
- Right Liralen?" He grins. "Thus, she was systematically the worst player ..."
-
- "Of course, I'm pretty bad at chess myself ... My memory is bad enough that
- I generally forget my strategy half way through a set of moves, and have to
- improvise the rest ... Not to mention forgetting that the opponent has certain
- pieces that have to be pinned down!"
-