SPEAKER_00: Hello?

SPEAKER_00: Hey, Max.

SPEAKER_00: I'm calling you from Reader's Digest today.

SPEAKER_01: Hey, what's going on?

SPEAKER_01: Reader's Digest.

SPEAKER_00: How's it going?

SPEAKER_00: Oh, I'm good, thank you.

SPEAKER_00: We've been here in town researching the Michigan Chess Association.

SPEAKER_01: Oh, that sounds cool.

SPEAKER_01: You know, my rating is about 600, so I'm not that good.

SPEAKER_00: Not that good.

SPEAKER_01: Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: Well, that sounds pretty high to me.

SPEAKER_01: Well, you know, it depends on the situation.

SPEAKER_00: I've heard a one situation where a guy I was talking to was able to do a double hump and a crowning in one move.

SPEAKER_01: Well, you have to, yeah, you have to look at the filling, you know, and whether or not you can pivot around the

SPEAKER_01: been in your mind before you put it on the board.

SPEAKER_01: That's the real humdinger when you can get it going like that.

SPEAKER_00: Okay, I'm writing all this down.

SPEAKER_00: So, psychological is the best origin for an opening gambit, is what it sounds like to me.

SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean, you can pluralize different gambits.

SPEAKER_01: Like, you can kind of layer them exponentially.

SPEAKER_01: But if you don't have them, you know, synergized, then you're going to flag on time, basically.

SPEAKER_00: Synergy.

SPEAKER_00: what I'm saying right now.

SPEAKER_00: Synergy is so important.

SPEAKER_00: And it could be a checkerboard.

SPEAKER_00: You could be a furrier.

SPEAKER_00: I just think synergy is vital.

SPEAKER_01: Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: I mean, it depends like your DNA, whether it's activated.

SPEAKER_01: And if you have that, then you can kind of download the Andromedaun gambit from outer space into your playing board.

SPEAKER_01: I think the test is written in the start.

SPEAKER_01: Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, you know.

SPEAKER_00: Super.

SPEAKER_00: more question for you. Have you ever been in a Zugswang type of position?

SPEAKER_00: Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: That's a time where you can't really make a good move, so it's good to get the other player

SPEAKER_01: into the Zugsongue.

SPEAKER_01: So it's defeat.

SPEAKER_01: It's a Zizzyngu's a type of move.

SPEAKER_01: When will this be published?

SPEAKER_00: Well, it'll come out online on the seventh.

SPEAKER_01: What?

SPEAKER_01: Oh, good.

SPEAKER_00: Merle?

SPEAKER_01: Okay.

SPEAKER_00: What is it?

SPEAKER_00: We've got Max on the line here.

SPEAKER_00: He's a checker player.

SPEAKER_01: I hope.

SPEAKER_01: I don't play checkers.

SPEAKER_00: Max, this is...

SPEAKER_00: I don't like checkers.

SPEAKER_00: This is Merle.

SPEAKER_00: We're calling from Reader's Digest.

SPEAKER_00: Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: Who are you?

SPEAKER_00: We're from Reader's Digest.

SPEAKER_01: I'm a checkers expert, and I'm here to talk checkers with you if you just have a moment.

SPEAKER_01: I don't want to play checkers.

SPEAKER_00: It's real simple.

SPEAKER_00: You're going to love it.

SPEAKER_01: I don't want to learn.

SPEAKER_00: It doesn't take long, and it's real fun.

SPEAKER_01: I don't want to learn.

SPEAKER_00: We've got chess boards.

SPEAKER_00: We've got checker boards.

SPEAKER_00: We've got everything.

SPEAKER_00: you need.

SPEAKER_01: I don't want to be there.

SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00: You're going to love it.

SPEAKER_00: This is Max here, Merrill.

SPEAKER_00: I don't know who you are.

SPEAKER_00: What's your name?

SPEAKER_00: My name is Dante.

SPEAKER_01: Dante's inferredo?

SPEAKER_01: Chis her Dante, from old days.

SPEAKER_01: You're about 200 years old.

SPEAKER_01: You're a ghost?

SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00: That's me.

SPEAKER_01: Congratulations.

SPEAKER_01: Goodbye.

SPEAKER_00: How are you doing today, Marl?

SPEAKER_01: If you just give us a moment of your time,

SPEAKER_01: I think it'll, it'll,

SPEAKER_01: really pay off, even if you're not an expert in checkers, it's just open your door off.

SPEAKER_01: It's a big payoff, buy, buy, buy, buy, bye, bye.

SPEAKER_00: It's a big payoff, real big.

SPEAKER_00: You see, you know, that's what I find when I'm talking to people here at Reader's Digest.

SPEAKER_00: They just let things get the better of them, even with the checkerboard, a measly old checkerboard.

SPEAKER_01: Well, I'm happy to have the opportunity to speak with your publication.

SPEAKER_01: I know it's, you know, it's a long-standing one.

SPEAKER_01: I hope to see.

SPEAKER_00: to continue. Oh, it is. We've been in business for 185 years.

SPEAKER_01: That's quite a while. You know, it's, I'm happy to see it.

SPEAKER_00: Thank you. So when we get closer to the seven, we get close, we'll send you an email and a link to

SPEAKER_00: our, uh, to our conversation. Take care of yourself, okay? Take care of yourself.

SPEAKER_00: Thank you again. And hey, I'll talk to you on or around the seven.

SPEAKER_00: Perfect.

SPEAKER_00: And if there's any questions, you can come.

SPEAKER_00: back.

SPEAKER_00: Merle, do you have any other questions?

SPEAKER_00: Who are you?

SPEAKER_00: Merle, do you have any other questions?

SPEAKER_00: This is Helmut.

SPEAKER_00: We just thought we'd get a little quote from you.

SPEAKER_00: This is Helmut.

SPEAKER_00: Leave me alone.

SPEAKER_01: I'll call the police.

SPEAKER_00: Leave me alone.

SPEAKER_01: You know, we're just here to have a discussion.

SPEAKER_01: I don't want to talk to you.

SPEAKER_01: I hate to talk.

SPEAKER_01: You don't like to talk?

None: Bye.