Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
A while ago, Leonard gave me the log analyzer software…
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A while ago, Leonard gave me the log analyzer software he uses to find out how people hit his site. He and I laugh over search requests, but he also confided in me that sometimes he sees a search request that he wants to fulfill. One such request: "poem about chess."
Inspired, the last week of finals, I wrote this:
They say that they invented chess
In India, my native land
Yet maharajas, I believe,
Would not so easily confess
Their stratagems, used to deceive
A rival prince with a weaker hand.
How did the chessbook writers guess
Whose ways to win would proudly stand
The test of time? And did they weave
Their own smart tricks? Oh, what a mess.
The tricks are not the wisdom we receive
From chess, where all victors are grand
As any king, with scepter or without
And gameworld losses are as much a rout.
