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Chess

Dropping the golden apple

16 March 2024

9:00 AM

16 March 2024

9:00 AM

Find the best move! Once upon a time, I sincerely believed that was my overriding goal during a game of chess. Naive, but nowadays I know better. The truth is that dodging banana skins is more fruitful, so to speak, than the pursuit of golden apples.

In part, this is a simple story about experience and humility.

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