"Clearly someone is wrong. I think one way and you think another and both of us believe we're right. At least I don't think you're crazy." Much. All right, maybe he did.

Freddie's head cocked at the move. That was...different. Had Sergievsky created his own move? Or was he just using something from the last thirty years? It seemed that he was going to have to do his research if he was going to get back up to playing in his form. Sergievsky had a few tricks up his sleeve.

He nodded his head briefly in acknowledgment of the surprise - they weren't playing for any stakes but pride and it was clear Freddie was a little rusty - and made a move designed to test out where this variation was going.