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From: tchow12...@yahoo.com (Timothy Chow)
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Subject: Blot-hitting contest
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2022 09:29:55 -0500
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by: Timothy Chow - Wed, 9 Feb 2022 14:29 UTC

I just played a game against XG which seemed to have an
inordinate amount of hitting. Here's how the game began,
up until the first double (I'm not bothering to transcribe
the exact moves, just whether there was any hitting).

no hit no hit
hit hit
hit hit
hit hit
hit hit
hit hit
no hit double hit
no hit triple hit
dance double/take

Even after that, in the rest of the game (which lasted a total
of 32 moves each before ending in RD/P), there were 14 more
moves which hit, 3 of which were double hits.

Now XG does color three of my hits green (mistakes) and
say that I should have doubled it out before the last hit,
but still, it seemed like a lot of hitting.

---
Tim Chow

It's easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

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