Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 19:31:58 01/28/00
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On January 28, 2000 at 22:19:26, Tina Long wrote: >That's what the lads at the Serpentine Cricket Club do after too many ales on a >slow cricket day. (so that's a fair phrase for a poem) > >What worried me was "like a log in the sky", >Now references to the validity of the Deep Blue Log-files is slightly off topic >surely? > >Well done Dann, a debt paid with finesse. In my metaphor, I thought about what a lone king looks like on the board, when you are about to lose. That's my log in the sky. Sure looks lonely on the board when the enemy has mating material. The ancient (and no longer followed) practice of tipping the king over, face down was the second phase of it. It wasn't such a great poem, but the best I could do, condering the inspiration was losing my wager.
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