| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 3 | 677 | Few masters shared his enthusiasm. |
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| 3 | 674 | He was View more quotes about lost">lost in his thoughts, studying a position which had once occurred a generation ago in a match between the minor masters Ossius of Tabor, exiled from Teletus, and Philemon of Asperiche, not even of the players, but only a cloth worker. |
| 3 | 675 | The game had not been important. |
| 3 | 676 | The position, however, for some reason, was thought by Centius of Cos to be intriguing. |
| 3 | 677 | Few masters shared his enthusiasm. |
| 3 | 678 | It had occurred on the twenty-fourth move of red, played by Philemon, Physician to Physician Six, generally regarded as a flawed response to Ossius' Ubar to Ubara's Scribe Five. |
| 3 | 679 | Something in the position had suggested to Centius of Cos a possible perfection, but it had never materialized. |
| 3 | 680 | "Here, I think," had said Centius of Cos, "the hand of Philemon, unknown to himself, once came close to touching the sleeve of Kaissa". |