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Subject: Re: 'Woodpusher' takes on ANY two players

Author: Terry Giles

Date: 04:25:34 06/21/03

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On June 20, 2003 at 20:58:18, Thomas Mayer wrote:

>Hi Dan,
>
>> A gold star if you name two masters that got in that bind in games with
>> odds. I don't remember if it is anecdotal or biographical.
>
>I read that once in a book of Shirley McLane, but I only know the german title
>which was "Kalte Glut".... Pretty good book, besides...
>
>Greets, Thomas

Hi Thomas,

Actually Sidney Sheldon's book "If Tomorrow Comes" has a similar event in it.
I haven't read this book, or indeed anything by Sheldon, but I believe the idea
certainly pre-dates this book.

Was there really something along those lines in a Shirley MacLaine book?

Terry



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