Daily story, September 9, 2025

We called it the Dutchman’s Gambit, because we thought it sounded funny, and because Andi was pretty sure that the Frenchman’s Gambit was already a thing, so we couldn’t call it that. We got a lot off free drinks out of it, and best of all, it wasn’t quite illegal. Even the letter in the local paper warning about it admitted that. They didn’t get everything right, though. They called it the Flemish Swindle, for a start.