“You need to learn to play more carefully, Comrade Jackson. The risk of being caught in your pants should be incentive. But,” said Psmith, as he captured yet another piece, “that does not seem to be incentive enough. We must invent some further penalty now that you have run out of clothing to forfeit.”
Psmith's powers of invention in the matter of penalties proved an even further distraction, and by the time he announced 'Mate!' Mike was prepared.
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Date: 2006-04-24 12:39 pm (UTC)“We're merely engaged in a game of chess.”
“With me in only my pants?”
“You need to learn to play more carefully, Comrade Jackson. The risk of being caught in your pants should be incentive. But,” said Psmith, as he captured yet another piece, “that does not seem to be incentive enough. We must invent some further penalty now that you have run out of clothing to forfeit.”
Psmith's powers of invention in the matter of penalties proved an even further distraction, and by the time he announced 'Mate!' Mike was prepared.