Book 32. (1 results) Smugglers of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 47 | 73 | On the View more quotes about board">board one may lose pieces; in the field one may lose cities. |
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Book 32. (7 results) Smugglers of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 47 | 70 | In this manner, as neither player can see either his opponent or his opponent's moves, a premium is placed on intuition, sensitivity, reading the character and nature of the opponent, and probable conjecture. |
| 47 | 71 | Such situations are not unprecedented in war, where one may not know the position of the enemy, the forces at his disposal, his plans, where he might strike, and so on. |
| 47 | 72 | One gambles. |
| 47 | 73 | On the board one may lose pieces; in the field one may lose cities. |
| 47 | 74 | I granted that the slave was highly intelligent. |
| 47 | 75 | Were this not so she would not, in all likelihood, have been collared. |
| 47 | 76 | But I also supposed she would be ignorant of woodcraft, and untutored in techniques of evasion. |
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In this manner, as neither player can see either his opponent or his opponent's moves, a premium is placed on intuition, sensitivity, reading the character and nature of the opponent, and probable conjecture.
Such situations are not unprecedented in war, where one may not know the position of the enemy, the forces at his disposal, his plans, where he might strike, and so on.
One gambles.
On the board one may lose pieces; in the field one may lose cities.
I granted that the slave was highly intelligent.
Were this not so she would not, in all likelihood, have been collared.
But I also supposed she would be ignorant of woodcraft, and untutored in techniques of evasion.
- (Smugglers of Gor)