Find your sole mate here!!

[Ben Wolfson]

In article <9do72p0ffl at news2.newsguy.com>, "Alex Martelli"
<aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote:

> "Delaney, Timothy" <tdelaney at avaya.com> wrote in message
> news:mailman.989802679.19365.python-list at python.org...
>     ...
>> You may only have *one* mate.
> 
> Doesn't that make it pretty hard to run a large ship?
> 
> Or is it "it's a chessplayer thing, you wouldn't understand"?

In chess it's a little different.  Although it's not really _allowed_ to
have more than one mate, sneaky folks get away with it all the time.  You
just have to make sure no one checks up on your mates.

-- 
Barnabas T. Rumjuggler
"Et tu, Brute?" sedulous.
 -- barry in indy, in apihna