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| 17 | 744 | In View more quotes about less">less than an Ahn we had set up our board and pieces, and I had shown Sura the placing of the pieces and their moves, and had explained some of the elementary techniques of the game to her; in the second Ahn she was actually negotiating the board with alertness, always moving with an objective in mind; her moves were seldom the strongest, but they were always intelligent; I would explain moves to her, discussing them, and she would often cry out "I see!" and a lesson never needed to be repeated. |
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| 17 | 741 | "A pen, ink?" "I have silk," she said, "and rouge, and bottles of cosmetics!" In a short time we had spread a large square of silk on the floor between us, and, carefully, finger in and out of a rouge pot, I had drawn the squares of the board. |
| 17 | 742 | I put a dot in the center of the squares that would normally be red on a board, leaving those squares that would normally be yellow blank. |
| 17 | 743 | Then, between us, we managed to find tiny vials, and brooches, and beads, to use as the pieces. |
| 17 | 744 | In less than an Ahn we had set up our board and pieces, and I had shown Sura the placing of the pieces and their moves, and had explained some of the elementary techniques of the game to her; in the second Ahn she was actually negotiating the board with alertness, always moving with an objective in mind; her moves were seldom the strongest, but they were always intelligent; I would explain moves to her, discussing them, and she would often cry out "I see!" and a lesson never needed to be repeated. |
| 17 | 745 | "It is not often," I said, "that one finds a woman who is pleased with the game". |
| 17 | 746 | "But it is so beautiful!" she cried. |
| 17 | 747 | We played yet another Ahn and, even in that short amount of time, her moves had become more exact, more subtle, more powerful. |