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I was meticulous not to leave anything unprotected… until a series of bad dice rolls left one piece unprotected, white would have<\/i> to roll a 1 to take it, and white did<\/i>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I won, but like Waterloo, it was a near run thing. I’m still losing 3 out of 5, but considering I only took up backgammon about six weeks ago that’s good progress!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Working on the CTWM config<\/a> the past few weeks has led me to delve into the mysteries of the .Xresources file, and I’ve made a theme for xgammon, specifically the control window, to match with the Mint-Y-Dark-Teal theme I have in my LMDE Cinnamon install, which is why the menu buttons are blue, not green to match the window borders here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n xgammon*foreground: #e4e4e4 I am well pleased. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This game of backgammon ended up being far closer than it had any right to be. I was meticulous not to leave anything unprotected… until a series of bad dice rolls left one piece unprotected, white would have to roll a 1 to take it, and white did. I won, but like Waterloo, it wasContinue reading “A Near Run Thing”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[5163,5143,4860],"class_list":["post-34264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-backgammon","tag-ctwm","tag-linux-mint","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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