Friday, 9 March 2007
Locke, Master of Games.
This week, on "Enter 77", we saw Locke beat a chess computer effortlessly, in a matter of minutes.
Never mind that the man who'd been living with the chess computer for 11 years had never beaten it. Is there no end to this man's talent? I suspect not.
We've seen Locke playing games before, and pontificating on their meaning and significance. One of the first things he did after the crash was set up a nice friendly, intimidating game of backgammon with a young boy called Walt, who incidentally had magical powers, not that this bothered our John much.
"Backgammon is the oldest game in the world. Archaeologists found sets when they excavated the ruins of ancient Mesopotamia. Five thousand years old. That's older than Jesus Christ...But their dice weren't made of plastic. Their dice were made of bones...Two players. Two sides. One is light. One is dark..."
After beating the chess computer "progammed by three grand masters" in about two and half minutes, John stumbled across some prerecorded instructions...
Moments later, the whole place was blown to kingdom come. Quoth John, "the computer said if there was an incursion by the hostiles, that I should enter "77". So I entered "77"."
BOOM.
Proof, if proof were needed that from the very beginning, and even now, Locke knows a great deal that we don't.
Locke John-Locke Lost Enter 77
Never mind that the man who'd been living with the chess computer for 11 years had never beaten it. Is there no end to this man's talent? I suspect not.We've seen Locke playing games before, and pontificating on their meaning and significance. One of the first things he did after the crash was set up a nice friendly, intimidating game of backgammon with a young boy called Walt, who incidentally had magical powers, not that this bothered our John much.
"Backgammon is the oldest game in the world. Archaeologists found sets when they excavated the ruins of ancient Mesopotamia. Five thousand years old. That's older than Jesus Christ...But their dice weren't made of plastic. Their dice were made of bones...Two players. Two sides. One is light. One is dark..."
After beating the chess computer "progammed by three grand masters" in about two and half minutes, John stumbled across some prerecorded instructions...
Moments later, the whole place was blown to kingdom come. Quoth John, "the computer said if there was an incursion by the hostiles, that I should enter "77". So I entered "77"."
BOOM.
Proof, if proof were needed that from the very beginning, and even now, Locke knows a great deal that we don't.
Locke John-Locke Lost Enter 77
Labels: backgammon, chess, explosions, plane crash, wisdom
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