This interesting incident happened in the recently concluded Manali International Rating Tournament!
This was one of those tournaments where the players had to pin their own scoresheets. It's a boring job to do! (For the non chess-players, scoresheets are used to record moves; one copy for us and one for the official use. Take two sheets, insert a carbon in between and pin it - that was the job)
There was this box full of carbons, to its side, a box of scoresheets. Scoresheets were all the same. I picked the first two!
For the carbons though, the case was different. First I picked one, then found it torn at one end...
Then I picked another, it was not satisfactory.
I picked another, but the next one looked good. I settled for the third one!
There's always one more thing that's better than what we have! Human beings are never satisfied!
ak :)
This was one of those tournaments where the players had to pin their own scoresheets. It's a boring job to do! (For the non chess-players, scoresheets are used to record moves; one copy for us and one for the official use. Take two sheets, insert a carbon in between and pin it - that was the job)
There was this box full of carbons, to its side, a box of scoresheets. Scoresheets were all the same. I picked the first two!
For the carbons though, the case was different. First I picked one, then found it torn at one end...
Then I picked another, it was not satisfactory.
I picked another, but the next one looked good. I settled for the third one!
There's always one more thing that's better than what we have! Human beings are never satisfied!
ak :)
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