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So Near and Yet So Far

by scribe | Nov 10, 2011 | current news, games, off-topic, ruminations, tournaments

I suspect that everyone reading this blog can figure out the following riddle: He’s been played with for centuries and lives the majority of his life one step at a time, often moving between darkness and light, and when he’s trapped, his life is over. This...

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