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Subject: Re: Elephant

Author: Mark Ryan

Date: 18:15:19 03/25/01

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On March 25, 2001 at 04:42:14, Mike S. wrote:

>On March 25, 2001 at 04:06:13, Severi Salminen wrote:
>
>>Why write a message with subject line that doesn't say anything about the
>>contents of the message? The subject line _has a function_.
>
>But it works for people which are courious (like me, I immediatly wanted to know
>what's the matter with the elephant. Is there one which can play chess. Now I'm
>disappointed :o)
>
>Regards,
>M.Scheidl

Don't be disappointed.  It was obviously a reference to the fact that the
original game, chaturanga, featured elephants  :)
http://www.chessvariants.com/historic.dir/chaturanga.html
Cheers,
Mark  :)




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