KTo288

I try to remember that it's another person I'm playing and not a bot, if I seem to have failed in doing so, please accept my apologies. 

Why do I, when I can, thank players for the game? I'm from the pre internet generation, and in the time and place I was born it was not always easy to get a game. At home the only person I could play was my brother who I was forbidden to play because together we invented chess boxing a decade and a half before it was popularised, though our version had a single bout of fisticuffs after an impasse on the chess board and we lacked finesse in both the chess and the boxing.