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The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The faculty of resolution is possibly much invigorated by mathematical study, and especially by that highest branch of it, which, unjustly, and merely because of its retrograde operations, has been called, as if par ... | Read More
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Dear Chess Opponents,
I’d love to send you a gift copy of one of my Amazon Kindle books, either The Evil that Men Do or The Juror Hangs. This includes the multitudes of you have beaten me, although I especially want to thank the few of you w... | Read More
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If I could write poetry, I would write haiku about games of chess.
If I could write haiku, I would write a haiku about games of chess.
If I could play chess, I would play as if I were crafting a haiku.
If I could play chess well, I would play c... | Read More
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(In the previous installment, Cassandra Aragon found what she felt was her ticket to eternal chess fame and began to study the art of stalemate.)
During the summer before she entered college, Cassandra Aragon—like every college-bound student... | Read More
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(In the last installment, Cassandra studied The Guinness Book of World Records searching in vain for a chess record she could set.)
Cassandra understood she was unlikely to win a real chess title. In fact, she was unlikely ever to win a single... | Read More
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(In the last installment, aspiring chess world-record-holder Cassandra Aragon graduated from high school without having won a single chess game in her life.)
By competing in high-school tournaments, Cassandra had matured as a player. She fina... | Read More
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(In the last installment, after extensive chess therapy, our heroine Cassandra Aragon had some serious decisions to make.)
“You have got to be kidding me,” Cassandra Aragon said when the principal of her high school explained to her why her... | Read More
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(In the last installment, Cassandra’s parents were forced to face the fact that their perfect daughter had a learning disability.)
Cassandra Aragon was almost twelve years old before she was diagnosed as having a rare neurological disorder th... | Read More
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(In the previous installment, Cassandra managed to learn to make a few simple chess moves and then entered middle school.)
Cassandra joined the middle-school chess club on the first day of sixth grade, despite her father’s warning that she wo... | Read More
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(This is the second in the series. The story begins below with the first post.
. . . When we left little Cassandra, she was only eight years old and already wanted to be a chess world-record holder.)
Cassandra’s chess tutor resigned in disgust... | Read More