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posted by rick on April 9th, 2008 at 2:46PM

Yeah, I definitely thought he was doing something like that as soon as I saw the seating arrangements.

Although, if you were the first four players, ...

*SPOILER ALERT*

... shouldn't you get a /little/ suspicious since after you make your first move (playing white), he gets up and leaves without playing a move?

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posted by dennisn on April 9th, 2008 at 7:47PM

Hahaha... i didn't think about that :).

But, how do you think he beat the 9th player?

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posted by rick on April 9th, 2008 at 11:50PM

No idea. And how did he get those numbers in the envelope?

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posted by dennisn on April 10th, 2008 at 12:36PM

As far as I know, it was probably some quick 'n dirty magician's trick, because:

#1 when opening the envolope at the very end, he made a wholly awkward and unecessary attempt to interfere -- under the pretense of "taking the envelope" from him -- and I think he even fiddles with the paper itself -- he must have swapped a newly written paper during that meddling.

#2 he didn't know the numbers before the tournament -- he just gives the dude some random envelope -- we have no idea what is in it -- so he clearly didn't predict anything. if he could predict it, he would have written the number in plain view at the very beginning.

#3 a little off topic, but i'm not sure if the fact that he got the first number wrong was deliberate, or an actual mistake

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Yeah I think half of those guys knew.
posted by pasofol on April 9th, 2008 at 5:26PM

Okay I made my move, now I'll just stay here until you figure yours out and move. Not like anyone is actually waiting for my move somewhere else.

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