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Editor. —I do not know type of playing cards used in Chicago or which edition of Alice in Wonderland Dr Caplan (Archives1982;39:389-390) reads, but in Bronx suits are spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs, and Lewis Carroll referred to of Hearts, not of Chess. Fisher's Rule No. 6 is, Describe quantitatively and precisely. Rule No. 7 is, the details of case are important; their analysis distinguishes expert from journey-man. Rule No. 18 should be, To publish is to risk being shot at in streets. Curiouser and curiouser! Like most things in life there is a little right and a little wrong, as both Dr Caplan's quote and Dr Scheinberg's rejoinder illustrate. The statement was made by Red Queen (of chess) but appeared in Through Looking Glass, not in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. I do
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