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“In our small chess community in Marylebone it would be mock modesty on my part to deny that I have built up for myself a considerable name without ever actually having won a single game. Even the best players are sometimes beaten, and that is precisely what happens to me.”

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Book:Three-upmanship: The theory & practice of gamesmanship: Some notes on lifemanship [and] One-upmanship
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“Remember the basic rule. Make friends with your caddie and the game will make friends with you. How true this is. It is easy to arrange that your guest opponent shall be deceived in to undertipping his caddie at the end of the morning round, so that the news gets round among the club employees that your opponent is a no good, and the boys will gang up against him.”

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Book:Some notes on lifemanship: with a summary of recent researches in gamesmanship
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“Cogg would suddenly stand stock still. "Listen," he would say. Some feeble quack would be heard from the willow beyond the pond. "That's an easy one to tell. The frog-pippit." Then he would add, As a safety measure, "As I believe they call it in these parts."”

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Book:Three-upmanship: The theory & practice of gamesmanship: Some notes on lifemanship [and] One-upmanship
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