Book 20. (7 results) Players of Gor (Context Quote)
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Sentence #
Quote
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87
"Thank you," he said.
12
88
To be honest, I had never played with a better player.
12
89
Many Goreans are quite skilled in the game, and I had played with them.
12
90
I had even, upon occasion, played with members of the caste of players, but never, never, had I played with anyone who remotely approached the level of this fellow.
12
91
His play was normally exact, even painfully exact, and an opponent's smallest mistake or least weakness in position would be likely to be exploited devastatingly and mercilessly, but, beyond this, an exhibition of a certain brilliant methodicality not unknown amongst high-level players, it was often characterized by an astounding inventiveness, an astounding creativity, in combinations.
12
92
He was the sort of fellow who did not merely play the game but contributed to it.
12
93
Further, sometimes to my irritation, he often, too often, in my opinion, seemed to produce these things with an apparent lack of effort, with an almost insolent ease, with an almost arrogant nonchalance.
"Thank you," he said.
To be honest, I had never played with a better player.
Many Goreans are quite skilled in the game, and I had played with them.
I had even, upon occasion, played with members of the caste of players, but never, never, had I played with anyone who remotely approached the level of this fellow.
His play was normally exact, even painfully exact, and an opponent's smallest mistake or least weakness in position would be likely to be exploited devastatingly and mercilessly, but, beyond this, an exhibition of a certain brilliant methodicality not unknown amongst high-level players, it was often characterized by an astounding inventiveness, an astounding creativity, in combinations.
He was the sort of fellow who did not merely play the game but contributed to it.
Further, sometimes to my irritation, he often, too often, in my opinion, seemed to produce these things with an apparent lack of effort, with an almost insolent ease, with an almost arrogant nonchalance.
- (Players of Gor, Chapter )