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Player

Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	138	That sort of thing would be effective only once with a given player, but in swordplay once would be sufficient.	10

Book 4. (3 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	215	There was another kalika player, as well, but he was sitting there holding his instrument, watching the slave girls in the audience.	10
12	218	These various things, from time to time, would be used not only by himself but by others in the group, probably the second kaska player and the third flutist.	10
28	10	Within something like fifty yards we heard a frightened squawk and saw Tuka thrown to the ground with a tackle that might have done credit to a qualified professional player of the American form of football.	10

Book 5. (84 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	212	The Vintner pressed the copper tarn disk, which the Player had won from him, into the Player's hands, and the Player placed this coin in his pouch.	10
3	184	Was this man not a Player? Relentlessly the Vintner forced through again with his Second Spearman, this time capturing the Player's Ubara's Rider of the High Tharlarion.	10
20	253	The other man who had entered with Hup was, to my astonishment, the blind Player whom I had encountered so long ago in the street outside the paga tavern near the great gate of Ar, who had beaten so brilliantly the Vintner in what had been apparently, until then, an uneven and fraudulent game, one t...	10
3	33	He was a man who would be respected by all the castes in Ar; he was a man who would be recognized, most likely, not only by every urchin wild in the streets of the city but by the Ubar as well; he was a Player, a professional, one who earned his living through the game.	10
3	57	Without speaking the Player sat down cross-legged at one side of the street, and placed the board in front of him.	10
3	59	"Set the pieces," said the Player.	10
3	61	The Player was a rather old man, extremely unusual on Gor, where the stabilization serums were developed centuries ago by the Caste of Physicians in Ko-ro-ba and Ar, and transmitted to the Physicians of other cities at several of the Sardar Fairs.	10
3	81	The Player, as I have mentioned, was rather old, not extremely old but rather old.	10
3	95	"Your terms?" asked the Player.	10
3	101	"Very well," said the Player.	10
3	109	"Very well," said the Player, looking out over the board placidly, seeing nothing.	10
3	113	"Very well," said the Player.	10
3	118	I supposed they were interested in seeing what the Player's response would be to yellow's fourteenth move, a move on which authorities disagreed sharply, some favoring Ubar's Initiate to Scribe Three, and others the withdrawal of Ubara's Spearman to cover the vulnerable Ubar Two.	10
3	119	To my surprise, the Player chose the withdrawal of Ubara's Spearman to cover Ubar Two, which seemed to me rather defensive, and surely cost him the possibility of a dangerous but promising counterattack, which would eventually, if all went well, culminate with his second tarnsman at his opponent's I...	10
3	122	The face of the Player seemed placid.	10
3	124	It seemed reasonably clear to me, at that point, that the Player had made a presumably weaker move in order to prejudice the game against himself, a move which could be defended, however, on the grounds that certain authorities favored it.	10
3	126	When I saw the excitement of the Vintner and the calm, stoic placidity of the Player I felt sad, for I recognized, as did several of the others, that this game, expensive though it might be, was to be the Vintner's.	10
3	127	The Vintner, you must understand, was not a bad player.	10
3	128	He was actually quite skilled, and would have played well among even gifted Goreans, to whom the game is almost second nature, but he was not of Player caliber, by far.	10
3	130	At one or two points I noted the Player had made subtly ineffective moves, apparently sound but yet leaving weaknesses which could be, even four or five moves in the future, exploited rather decisively.	10
3	131	Late in the game, the Player seemed to rally, and the Vintner began to sweat, and rubbed his fingers together, and held his head in his hands, studying the board as though he would bore through it with his gaze.	10
3	132	No one watching was much impressed, incidentally, that the Player was blind and yet remembering each move and the complexities of the board.	10
3	140	The Player looked puzzled.	10
3	141	All eyes turned to the Player and he put his head down for a moment, apparently reconstructing the game from memory, through all of its better than forty moves to that point, and then he smiled.	10
3	148	Finally it grew late in the end game and it would be but a matter of four or five moves and the Player's Home Stone must be lost.	10
3	150	The Player was now in such a predicament that I doubted that Centius of Cos, or Quintus of Tor, or even the city's champion, Scormus of Ar, could have done much.	10
3	153	The Player, of course, could only hear my voice.	10
3	157	The Player lifted his sightless eyes toward my face.	10
3	158	I took from my belt a tarn disk of double weight, and of gold, and gave it to the Player, who took it in his fingers and felt its weight, and then he put it between his teeth and bit it.	10
3	163	Such an amount I knew would not be likely to be earned in a year by a Player.	10
3	164	The Player turned his head toward me, lifting the scarred remains of his eyes, as though he might see.	10
3	178	He must defend, for his very life! With a trembling hand, the Vintner shoved his Second Spearman to the left, capturing the Player's First Spearman, which had not been defended.	10
3	180	"Ubar's Rider of the High Tharlarion," said the Player, "to Ubar's Physician Eight".	10
3	185	"Ubar's Scribe to Ubara's Scribe Six," said the Player.	10
3	190	"Ubar's Scribe to Ubara's Scribe Six," repeated the Player.	10
3	191	Mechanically the Vintner made the move on the board for the Player.	10
3	193	The capture of the Player's Home Stone would take place on the next move.	10
3	194	"Do you wish to reconsider your move?" asked the Player, looking across the board, not seeing, but smiling.	10
3	199	The Player shrugged.	10
3	201	"You have no next move," said the Player.	10
3	207	"Magnificent!" he cried weeping, taking the Player by the shoulders and shaking him.	10
3	208	And then the Vintner himself, as proud as though it had been his own, announced the Player's next move.	10
3	213	I then pressed into the hands of the Player the tarn disk of gold, of double weight, and the man held it clenched in his hands, and smiled and rose to his feet.	10
3	215	He then handed him the board, which the Player hung over his other shoulder.	10
3	217	The Player put out his hand and touched the Vintner's face, remembering it.	10
3	218	"Thank you for playing," said the Player.	10
3	220	"I wish you well," said the Player.	10
3	224	I smiled and I noted that the Player, too, smiled.	10
3	225	"You are a Merchant?" asked the Player.	10
3	228	"Can I help you to your home?" "You are surely of High Caste," said the Player, "to have such gold".	10
3	235	I turned again to the Player, but he was now standing there in the street, seeming somehow alone, though I stood at his side.	10
6	29	"You could have been a Player," said Caprus.	10
6	64	There was a czehar player, two players of the kalika, four flutists and a pair of kaska drummers.	10
13	195	Upon leaving the baths I encountered by chance the Tarn Keeper whom I had met briefly when observing the game outside the tavern of Spindius, that fought between the blind Player and the Vintner.	10
13	203	"I liked what you did at the game, when you gave the double tarn to the Player".	10
14	198	"You, Killer," said he, "would not make a Player".	10
17	789	I had played the game often and was considered, even among skilled Goreans, an excellent player; yet I found myself fighting for my life with my beautiful, excited opponent.	10
18	300	It was Cernus saying to me, outside the Cell for Special Captures, "You, Killer, would not make a Player".	10
18	313	You, Killer, would not make a Player.	10
18	335	You, Killer, would never make a Player.	10
18	336	You, Killer, would never make a Player.	10
18	338	Lower and lower I went into the cylinder, the thought pounding in my brain: You, Killer, would never make a Player.	10
18	341	You, Killer, would never make a Player.	10
18	348	Always the thought burned through me, You, Killer, would never make a Player, and always I seemed driven by the black fear that would not speak itself but whose presence I could clearly sense.	10
18	480	"You, Killer," said Cernus, mocking, "would never make a Player".	10
18	543	"You, Tarl Cabot," said Cernus, "would never make a Player".	10
19	112	Those with string instruments began to tune them; there was a czehar player, the group's leader, some kalika players, some flutists, players of the kaska, small drums, and others.	10
20	187	I had gathered in the months in the house, from what I had seen and heard, that Cernus was indeed a fine player.	10
20	247	He wore the robes of a Player.	10
20	258	"Qualius the Player," called Cernus, "you are once again in the House of Cernus, who is now Ubar of Ar".	10
20	259	"I am honored," said the blind Player, whose name I had just learned.	10
20	261	"No," said the blind Player dryly.	10
20	270	"There are few doors open to a destitute Player".	10
20	296	Through the entryway, rather angrily, strode a young man, perhaps no more than eighteen or nineteen years of age, with piercing eyes and incredibly striking features; he wore the garb of the Player, but his garb was rich and the squares of the finest red and yellow silk; the game bag over his left s...	10
20	315	He looked about himself, and saw Qualius, the blind Player.	10
20	343	I wondered who the young man might be if Qualius, whom I knew to be a superb player, did not even speak as though he might force a draw with him.	10
20	366	My champion was Hup, a Fool, that of Cernus was the brilliant, fiery, competitive Scormus of Ar, the young, phenomenal Scormus, who played first board of the city of Ar and held the highest bridge in the city as the province of his game, the master not only of the Players of Ar but doubtless of Gor ...	10
20	418	Cernus himself had not recognized them; perhaps none in the room had; the lame foot was perhaps the legacy of his misshapen father; but the boy was fine, and he was brilliant; he was the marvelous Scormus, youthful master Player of Ar.	10
20	422	Could he then be the fool he pretended? And Scormus of Ar, the brilliant, the natively brilliant master Player was the offspring of these two.	10
20	423	I had sensed the marvelous raw power of Sura, her amazing, almost intuitive grasp of the game; and I wondered of Hup, who could be the father of so brilliant a boy as Scormus of Ar; perhaps Hup, the Fool, was no stranger to the game; I looked to one side and saw Qualius of Ar, the blind Player; unno...	10
20	470	"Hup, my friend," said the blind player Qualius, "can play with Priest-Kings".	10
20	516	Scormus then went to Qualius, the blind player.	10
23	179	"You would never make a Player, Cernus," said I to myself.	10
24	247	The one double tarn remaining from the victory gold I pressed into the hands of blind Qualius, the Player, who stood at the court of the Ubar, having been, like Hup, of the party of Marlenus.	10

Book 7. (2 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	808	Each player has the same number of "stones," usually two to five per player.	10
8	797	Others played "Stones," where one player guesses the number of stones held in the other's hand.	10

Book 8. (4 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	194	One was a Player, a master who makes his living, though commonly poorly, from the game, playing for a cup of paga perhaps and the right to sleep in the tavern at night.	10
4	21	To one side, the Player and the fellow from Torvaldsland, with the ax, were still engaged in their game.	10
11	15	I myself am an aggressive player, but against Marlenus it seemed always necessary to defend.	10
11	18	Marlenus was a superb player.	10

Book 9. (1 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	135	I knew, of course, that game context was a decisive matter in such considerations, but only now, playing Forkbeard, did I suspect that there was another context involved, that of the inclinations, capacities and dispositions of the individual player.	10

Book 10. (6 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	46	Each player has nine pieces of equal value which are originally placed on the intersections of the nine interior vertical lines with what would be the rear horizontal line, constituted by the back edge of the board, from each player's point of view.	10
1	36	Their leader was a czehar player.	10
5	75	Let me briefly say that her training had begun on the march, in the evenings, under the tutelage of a drover, who had been a tavern czehar player, and two of Farouk's dancing slaves, one of whom had been a brothel dancer in Ar.	10
5	568	Her teacher was a cafe slave girl, Seleenya, rented from her master; her musicians were a flutist, hired early, and, later, a kaska player, to accompany him.	10
7	585	"As a player, now on the winning side, in the game of worlds," he said.	10
18	55	The first player to fully occupy the opponent's initial position wins.	10

Book 11. (2 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	289	Whether the slender, supple disciplinary device would be used often in the game depends much on the skill of the girl player.	10
28	136	We did have two pairs to be sold tonight, one consisting of a singer and her lyre player, and another of identical twins, from the island of Tabor, named for its resemblance to the small Gorean drum of that name.	10

Book 12. (17 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	692	Centius of Cos is a fine player, but he is beyond his prime.	10
2	701	No other player might call "Kaissa" on those bridges until he had bested the young Scormus.	10
2	702	His play was swift, decisive, brilliant, merciless; more than one player had given up the game after being indulged, and then toyed with, and humiliated, by the genius of Scormus.	10
3	323	Normally much betting would wait until it was known which player had yellow, which determines the first move, the first move, of course, determining the opening.	10
3	336	Often, incidentally, the first move in a match is decided by one player's guessing in which hand the other holds a Spearman, one of the pieces of the game.	10
4	109	There was a man there from Ar, and one from Cos, and a player from Turia, Timor, a corpulent fellow supposed to be of indisputable integrity and one thought, at any rate, to be of a city far enough removed from the problems of Cos and Ar to be impartial.	10
4	117	These spigots are linked in such a way that when one is open the other must be closed; the spigot turned by a given player closes his own clock's sand passage and opens that of his opponent; when the clocks must both be stopped, as for an adjournment of play, they are placed on their side by the chi...	10
4	118	There are two Ahn of sand in each player's clock.	10
4	119	Each player must complete forty moves before his clock is empty of sand, under penalty of forfeit.	10
4	121	There was a movement among some of the younger players to divide the sand in such a way that each player would have one Ahn for the first twenty moves, and one Ahn for the second twenty moves, subject to the same forfeiture conditions as the two-Ahn clock.	10
4	126	Also, it was felt preferable by many for a player to be able to decide for himself, under the conditions of a given game, the duration of his speculations on a given move.	10
4	179	Scormus of Ar, though almost universally a versatile and brilliant player, was particularly masterful in this opening; he had used it for victory in the Turian tournaments of the ninth year of the Ubarate of Phanias Turmus; in the open tournaments of Anango, Helmutsport, Tharna, Tyros, and Ko-ro-ba,...	10
4	192	"He might have," said another, "with a lesser player".	10
4	199	Many regarded Centius of Cos, in spite of his victories or defeats or draws, as the finest player of Kaissa of all time.	10
4	428	He lifted his arms to the crowd, the sleeves of the player's robes falling back on his shoulders.	10
4	493	Behind him he had left a Kaissa board, its kit of pieces, and the robes of the player.	10
12	8	Each player, in turn, drops a bone, one of several in his supply.	10

Book 13. (2 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	101	"You are a fine player," I said.	10
34	621	Or is it rather nature's way of calling men to the destiny to which she has intended them, to victory, and the mastery? You are a challenge of fortune, the player, and the stake, in the game that only one can win.	10

Book 14. (2 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
22	64	There was a czehar player, two flutists, a kalika player, and a player on the kaska, a small hand drum.	10
22	322	"Yes, Lady Florence," said the czehar player, their leader.	10

Book 16. (1 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	75	There were seven musicians, who furnished the music for the dancers, a czehar player, their leader, two kalika players, three flutists and a kaska player.	10

Book 17. (1 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	637	She was no longer a player in the game; she was now only a prize in it.	10

Book 19. (2 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	31	The appearance of a player of the stature of Centius of Cos at the matches in a city such as Corcyrus, I gathered, had to do with the alliances between Cos and Corcyrus.	10
6	33	He had won his games easily with the exception of one, with a quite minor player, which he had seemed to prolong indefinitely, as though attempting to bring about some obscure and particular configuration on the board.	10

Book 20. (147 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	81	Clearly Belnar, the ubar of Brundisium, had expected Temenides to best the player, taken then to be a mere low player, a troupe's player, and this had not turned out as he had anticipated.	10
7	297	Boots's player, incidentally, the Kaissa player, the surly, masked fellow, called usually "the monster" in the camp, remained, too, with the troupe.	10
16	890	Suddenly the player, the hooded player, he called the "monster," he who now had Bina's use, rose from his place at a table and climbed the stairs to the stage.	10
16	1095	Perhaps it was just as well that the player had not tried to force her to become a player, an activity for which she was not naturally suited, and in which she would have, at best, after years of work, achieved only a hard-won and mediocre success, but had instead forced her to become that for which...	10
16	1181	The player's move brought Temenides' Ubar's Spearman under immediate attack by the player's Ubara's Initiate.	10
1	25	Much depends on the psychology of the individual player.	10
1	31	Sometimes, however, to distinguish it from differing forms of the game, it is spoken of as Merchant Kaissa, from the role of the Merchants in making it the official form of Kaissa for the fairs, Player Kaissa, from the role of the Players in its codification, or the Kaissa of En'Kara, for it was off...	10
2	442	This is because a skillful player, primarily by judicious exchanges and careful position play, can often bring about a draw.	10
2	445	A full point is scored for a win; in a draw each player obtains a half point.	10
2	469	"Why is your player hooded?" I asked.	10
2	524	Centius of Cos was perhaps the finest player on Gor.	10
2	533	At the mention of the name Centius of Cos, the hooded player had stiffened angrily.	10
2	556	I had once known a Kaissa player who had done that.	10
8	64	Too, bound, still hooded, the player, he called the "monster," lay with the others.	10
8	337	"Thank you," said the player, surlily, begrudgingly, as I freed his hands from behind his back.	10
9	21	The surly, hooded player was not with us.	10
12	88	To be honest, I had never played with a better player.	10
12	343	I watched the player replacing the pieces in the leather wallet.	10
12	362	"Ah," said the player.	10
12	417	I had hoped, of course, that the player might be able to help me with this sort of thing, that he, ideally, might be familiar with the ciphers, or their keys.	10
12	435	"Begin then, on the first square," said the player, "with the first letter of a word, or of a sentence, or even of a set of letters randomly selected.	10
12	444	"Yes," said the player.	10
12	446	"Correct," said the player.	10
12	451	"Precisely," said the player.	10
12	453	"In my exposition," the player reminded me, "I mentioned 'available squares.	10
12	458	"The true power of the ciphers come in, in my opinion," said the player, "not so much with the multiples and nulls but with the multiplicity of boards.	10
12	521	"You are not really a roustabout, or vagabond, are you?" asked the player.	10
12	523	"So, too, am I," said the player.	10
12	525	"We shall leave it at that, then," said the player.	10
12	536	She cast a scornful glance at the player.	10
12	582	"Centius is a fine player," I said.	10
12	589	In it Centius of Cos, one of Gor's finest players, indeed, perhaps her finest player, had, for the first time, introduced the defense which came subsequently to be known as the Telnus Defense.	10
12	592	"That makes no difference," said the player.	10
12	622	"I do not want you in the camp," said Bina to the player.	10
12	627	The player, too, I think, did not realize that Boots had returned to the camp.	10
12	633	For a moment she turned pale, but then, as I made no move to correct her behavior, perhaps stripping her and throwing her to her belly, kicking her, thrusting her face into the dirt, or tying her to an elevated, spinning wagon wheel, she turned, again, boldly, to the player.	10
12	647	The player regarded her, not speaking.	10
12	667	I could stand it no longer! I took it upon myself, risking my own life, to stop him, to defend your honor!" "Is this true?" inquired Boots of the player.	10
12	670	She counted on the player to support her story, to protect her from the horrifying reprisals almost certain to be visited on a helpless slave in her position.	10
12	673	"No," said the player.	10
12	705	"I shall ask someone to decide what your punishment is to be," said Boots, "he whom you have most offended, our hooded friend, the player".	10
12	706	"No, Master," she sobbed, "not he, please, not he!" "Player?" asked Boots.	10
12	712	Bina lies on her belly before master! Bina acknowledges that she is less than the dust beneath his feet! Bina is only a slave! Be kind to Bina! Please be kind to Bina!" "The robes will dry," said the player.	10
12	715	"The matter is unimportant," said the player.	10
12	721	The player lifted his foot from her head, and stepped away from her, smoothing his robes.	10
12	729	"She is yours," said the player.	10
12	733	"The player has shown you incredible mercy, girl," said Boots.	10
12	768	How easily she had gotten off! How light had been her punishment! I saw her sneak a scornful, victorious glance at the player.	10
12	788	"Thank you," said the player.	10
12	790	"Do I also have full discipline and whip rights over her?" asked the player.	10
12	792	"Good," said the player, approvingly.	10
12	795	"Yes, Master," she wept and, springing up, hurried to the player's wagon.	10
12	800	"I will need her, of course, for the performances," said Boots to the player.	10
12	802	"Of course," said the player.	10
12	807	"Congratulations," I said to the player.	10
15	15	The player stood a bit away, his arms folded, dispassionately observing the proceedings.	10
15	18	It had been put on her wrist by the player, whose bracelet it was, signifying that her use was his.	10
16	381	I did not think she would have done this before having been given into the use of the player.	10
16	382	Indeed, she was facing the player when she did it, and I suspected that it was primarily for him that she had so slave-bared herself.	10
16	416	On the other hand, at one point, Bina did twist toward the player and, somewhat out of character, moved in such a way that there was no doubt that it was to him, he who had her current use, that she was presenting herself.	10
16	830	It had been put on her by the player.	10
16	832	I saw the player from Cos, Temenides, lean toward Belnar, and speak to him.	10
16	841	Her time with the player had clearly honed her slave responses.	10
16	863	"Though she is my slave," said Boots, in explanation, "yet her use has been given to our player, he who travels with my small and humble troupe".	10
16	877	"Consider something yourself," said Temenides, player of Cos, "your life".	10
16	879	It interested me that the player should be so bold.	10
16	895	He had particularly, doubtless, never expected to receive one from the player.	10
16	897	He pointed at the player.	10
16	899	"He just bought her!" The girl cried out in astonishment, looking up at the player from her knees.	10
16	904	Slowly, beautifully, kneeling before him, looking up at him, Bina opened her thighs before the player.	10
16	905	"You own me," she said to the player.	10
16	917	"So, player," said Temenides, "you now own her.	10
16	921	Bina lifted her head from the player's feet.	10
16	945	She looked up at the player, startled, blood at the side of her mouth.	10
16	946	"Were you given permission to speak?" inquired the player.	10
16	950	The player then turned toward Temenides.	10
16	953	"No," said the player.	10
16	960	"Here, fool," he said to the player, lifting up the coins.	10
16	961	"Here is a hundred times what she is worth, and twice what you paid for her! She is now mine!" "No," said the player.	10
16	965	Then five coins altogether, five golden tarn disks, and of Ar herself, as it was pointed out, were offered to the player for his Bina, lifted in the furious, clenched fist of Temenides, of Cos, one of the masters of the high boards of Kaissa in that powerful island ubarate.	10
16	966	"No," said the player.	10
16	970	"I am a citizen of Ar," said the player.	10
16	973	Similarly, I am curious to know why a player of Cos, not understood ambassador or herald, sits at a high table, at the table even of Belnar, Ubar of this city.	10
16	974	Similarly, how is it that Temenides, only a player, and one of Cos, as well, to whom both Brundisium and Ar stand opposed, to whom both accord their common defiance, dares to speak so boldly? Perhaps something has occurred of which I was not informed, that ubars now take their orders from enemies, a...	10
16	982	"I cannot believe the great Belnar is serious," said the player.	10
16	986	"He is a player.	10
16	988	The player folded his arms and regarded Temenides.	10
16	991	This is a mountebank, a player at carnivals, no member even of the caste of players!" Belnar shrugged.	10
16	1002	Bina, terrified, threw herself to her stomach before the player on the platform.	10
16	1007	"Strip," snarled the player.	10
16	1009	The player continued to regard her.	10
16	1011	"Now," said the player, "what did you say?" "Permit me to crawl suppliantly to him, proposing myself for his pleasures," she whispered, frightened.	10
16	1012	The player suddenly, angrily, kicked her to her side.	10
16	1019	"It seems," said Belnar to Temenides, amused, "that the player is disinclined to extend to you the female's use".	10
16	1033	Then he regarded the player.	10
16	1034	"Perhaps the great Temenides, who holds a high board in Cos, fears to enter into a banquet's friendly game, or, say, an evening's casual tourney, with one who is a mere mountebank, a monster," suggested the player.	10
16	1037	"Could it be?" asked the player.	10
16	1039	"I, on the other hand," said the player, "am obviously willing to do so".	10
16	1044	Near the feet of the player, Bina trembled, head down.	10
16	1059	"And," asked the player, "if you should win, and claim, this forfeit, what might I expect to be your pleasure?" "That you be boiled alive in the oil of tharlarion," said Temenides.	10
16	1060	"I see," said the player.	10
16	1064	"Agreed," said the player.	10
16	1067	"Be silent," said the player.	10
16	1085	Once or twice, long ago when she had been haughty and cruel, before she had come to learn her slavery properly, the player would have been willing to teach her the moves of the game but after she had come into his use, his attitude towards her had significantly changed.	10
16	1104	The player, and Temenides, of Cos, came to the board.	10
16	1106	"Temenides is generous," said the player.	10
16	1108	"No," said the player.	10
16	1110	"Let the pieces be put in place," said the player.	10
16	1116	"Who will move first?" asked the player.	10
16	1133	"No," said the player.	10
16	1146	"You have won the guess," observed the player.	10
16	1150	"I, on the other hand, will take my time with you," said the player.	10
16	1152	"Recall my conditions, and intentions!" "I do," said the player.	10
16	1160	"Play," said Belnar, turning to the player and Temenides.	10
16	1167	"Ubara's Rider of the High Tharlarion to Ubara's Builder Three," said the player.	10
16	1169	"Occasionally," said the player.	10
16	1171	"Somewhat," said the player.	10
16	1173	"I believe it is a legal move," said the player.	10
16	1176	"Orthodoxy is not invariably equivalent to soundness," said the player.	10
16	1179	"Similarly," said the player, "the more orthodox your play the more predictable it will be, and thus the more easily exploited".	10
16	1184	"To be sure, if I respected you more highly," said the player, "I might have selected a different opening move".	10
16	1186	"It is your move?" asked a man of the player.	10
16	1187	"Yes," said the player.	10
16	1189	"Thank you," said the player.	10
16	1192	"He is a mountebank, a bumpkin!" "It is warm in here," said the player.	10
16	1206	"It is my caste," said the player.	10
16	1208	I think in that moment the player had come home to himself.	10
16	1211	"I was a champion," said the player.	10
16	1213	"Of Ar," said the player.	10
16	1216	"Perhaps you have heard of it," said the player.	10
16	1218	The player reached to the mask, that dark hood, which he wore.	10
16	1224	No longer did the player wear that dark concealing hood.	10
16	1241	"Yes, Player," said he.	10
16	1265	The player would not hurry with Temenides.	10
18	9	The player need not have done that.	10
18	14	"Capture of Home Stone," announced the player.	10
18	21	I had known, or at least suspected, the identity of the player, incidentally, even from Port Kar, when I had first seen him.	10
18	27	Too, how many poor players would have had in their possession a Champion's Cup, and that of Ar, that cup which the brigands had found when they had raided the camp of Boots Tarsk-Bit, that which had so fascinated them and which the player had been so anxious to conceal? Yet he had not sold it nor ha...	10
18	57	"Yes, Player?" said Belnar.	10
18	58	Obviously the player had earned his respect.	10
18	62	"Forgive me, Player.	10
18	67	"Player?" asked Belnar.	10
18	84	"Player," said he, "honor us by sitting at the table of Brundisium's Ubar".	10
21	183	"Can you imagine that? A mere player, a member of a troupe, daring to cross swords with me?" "You have done well against one untrained in arms," I said, "one who dared to face you with only courage and a wooden sword.	10
21	287	"You are only a player".	10
22	109	This stratagem would permit him not only to take action against plausible suspects, given the hostility between those of Ar and Cos, this perhaps diverting attention from the true murderers, those in the pay of the ubar, but would give him a convenient pretext for ridding himself of possibly dangero...	10
22	126	"Doubtless we shall have to locate another player, too," said Boots.	10

Book 22. (5 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	469	There were five of them, a czehar player, two kalika players, a flautist and a drummer.	10
11	856	The czehar player, sitting cross-legged, now had his instrument across his lap.	10
11	891	In the arms of no other sort of man could I be fulfilled! Too, let Teibar cry out with anguish if he could find out how desired I would be, and what an excellent slut, what superb slave meat, I, his despised "modern woman," proved to be! I would become a high slave! I would cost a great deal of mone...	10
11	948	The kaska player, alert to this, reduced the volume of his drumming, and then, five times, smote hard upon the taut skin, almost like the cracking of a whip, to which I reacted, turning to one side and another, as though such a disciplinary device had been sounded menacingly, on all sides, in my vic...	10
13	747	That was the purpose of such places, whether they were within lofty towers, reached by graceful bridges, or near the wharves, close enough to hear the tide lapping at the pilings, whether they had a dozen musicians or only a single, dissolute czehar player, alone with his music, whether the girls we...	10

Book 24. (2 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	344	One sacrifices the first board, so to speak, and then has one's first player engaging the enemy's second player, and one's second player engaging the enemy's third, and so on.	10
40	3	A dancer had fled back behind a beaded curtain, dismissed by the czehar player, he who led the musicians.	10

Book 25. (5 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	613	For example, a skilled Kaissa player is sometimes greeted in such a manner.	10
9	666	The instrument which is played by the flute girls is a double flute, too, but I had little doubt that the player involved would not be a flute girl but someone associated with one or another of the theaters of Ar.	10
9	763	"You are retaining the czehar player and the actor then," he asked.	10
22	161	Indeed, we learn from Cabot's miscellaneous notes that the name of the flute player usually occurs on theatrical advertisements immediately after that of the major performer or performers.	10
22	162	It seems the flute player is often on stage and accompanies performers about, pointing up speeches, supplying background music, and such.	10

Book 27. (3 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
24	424	The first czehar player, in whose charge were the musicians, appeared puzzled as well, but continued to elicit from his instrument, held across his knees, subtle melodies which sang of life and nature, which hinted of men and women, and masters and slaves.	10
24	500	And the czehar player underlined these steps.	10
24	629	The czehar player looked up, puzzled.	10

Book 29. (3 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	50	"My kaissa is satisfactory," I said, "for one who is not a Player".	10
5	389	Two boards are used, with an opaque barrier between the boards, so neither player can see the pieces of the other.	10
10	465	Some others understood her game only too well, and played the game with her, she not understanding how the player was being played.	10

Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	54	Depending on the Player, they will give you a game for as little as a tarsk-bit, as much as a golden tarn disk of Ar.	10

Book 31. (5 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	361	How could that be? Were the slaves not beautiful enough? I knew that a yearning slave, to one side, lying in her chains, must often await the outcome of such a game There was music in the tavern, a czehar player, a drummer, utilizing the small tabor, two flautists, and a pair of kalika players.	10
35	146	Each player has twenty-three pieces, but only ten are placed on the first row; the squares take their designations from the initial placement of these ten pieces.	10
35	157	Accordingly, the first level of concealment is that the sheet is not what it initially appears to be, and might not attract particular attention, certainly not from those unfamiliar with kaissa, and probably not from your average player, who would not be likely to inquire into the annotation of a ga...	10
35	237	"And how," he asked, "does the house obtain its advantage? Are there apertures in the ceiling through which an accomplice, perhaps with a glass, might somehow signal the house's player, are there loitering observers nearby, in a position to read cards, and convey signals?" "I do not think so," I sai...	10
35	243	"The house's player could recognize the nature and value of an opponent's card from the back," he said.	10

Book 32. (5 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	12	I was sure he would shepherd his men, and nourish them, but, as a dark player might, regarding not only the board, and a particular victory, but the larger game, a different game, one not played on a board.	10
14	512	"I think," said Tyrtaios, "that one player, and perhaps neither, is content to resign himself in these matters to the role of a passive, uninvolved spectator".	10
47	67	It is played much like ordinary Kaissa save that there are two boards, separated by a vertical screen, precluding each player from seeing the moves of the other.	10
47	70	In this manner, as neither player can see either his opponent or his opponent's moves, a premium is placed on intuition, sensitivity, reading the character and nature of the opponent, and probable conjecture.	10
50	471	Who is the most skillful player, she with the most victories, the most discomfited, shattered swains, she who is to be most admired, the most emulated, and perhaps the most envied? But I was not such a woman.	10

Book 33. (1 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
45	95	"With so much at stake," I said, "in effect, a planet, for Kurii would not long be likely to peaceably share a world with Priest-Kings or any others, and surely Priest-Kings would realize the danger of admitting a technologically advanced, aggressive species like the Kurii to their world, it seems p...	10

Book 34. (1 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
30	50	A typical group would consist of a czehar player, usually the leader, one or two flautists, one or two players of the kalika, and a taborist.	10

Book 35. (10 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	55	I listened to the music, supplied by a czehar player, which, now, was soft, slow, and sensuous.	10
10	57	Later the czehar player would be joined by his fellows, two with kalikas, two with flutes, and one on the tabor.	10
10	58	The czehar player was the leader of the group.	10
10	105	The czehar player had stopped briefly, looking up when the girl had cried out, but now resumed his playing.	10
46	209	There was a czehar player, two flutists, and a drummer, with the small tabor.	10
46	211	"There are no dancers," said the czehar player, who was the leader of the small group.	10
46	289	"I think we shall withdraw," said the czehar player.	10
46	293	"Perhaps," said the czehar player, "you should do so anyway, to keep it from reaching the streets".	10
46	510	"This will not take long," said the czehar player.	10
46	536	"Yes," said the czehar player.	10

Book 36. (6 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	66	We were on Chios, the closest of the three 'Farther Islands', Chios, Thera, and Daphna, those islands beyond Tyros and Cos, once taken as marking the end of a world, beyond which lay only terror and mystery, and the devouring, waiting, stirring vastness of turbulent Thassa, the sea, fierce summoner ...	10
6	37	"The czehar player has not yet entered from the serving corridor," said Thurnock.	10
6	46	"The czehar player has appeared," said Thurnock.	10
6	47	"He has now joined the kalika player, the flautists, and a drummer".	10
27	81	In such an arrangement the odds are clearly unfavorable to the player who, mathematically, has only one chance in four of winning.	10
63	42	"As the acrobat, the czehar player, and the swordsman," called Bombastico, "so, too, must the actor practice.	10