{"id":4934,"date":"2017-10-15T09:03:58","date_gmt":"2017-10-15T17:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danamackenzie.com\/blog\/?p=4934"},"modified":"2017-10-15T09:03:58","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T17:03:58","slug":"in-honor-of-the-long-diagonal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danamackenzie.com\/blog\/?p=4934","title":{"rendered":"In Honor of the Long Diagonal"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m back! I’ve finished writing my book, the last files are going off to the editor tomorrow, and at last I can think about chess and my blog again.<\/p>\n

For a long time one of my many passwords (Not for this site, though! Don’t get any ideas!) has been “iamtheboss.” The point is that the letters make a nice triangle when you put them on a grid:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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As a lover of silly word games and long diagonals, I thought this morning, “That’s kind of lame. Only four lines? Surely I can do better than that!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Now that’s a really long diagonal!<\/p>\n

Obviously this is not a quote from anybody, but who would have been the most plausible player to say it? I think that the best candidate, by virtue of his arrogance and occasionally orotund writing style, would be Alexander Alekhine.<\/p>\n

I’ll be back in a couple days with something more serious. I don’t know what yet, but we’ll see. Any comments on the theme of word play, Alexander Alekhine, passwords (be careful) or diagonals are more than welcome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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