Seasons

Hmmm... I'm looking at mate in one - an ignoble end to the game that would afford me very little pleasure.
Are you quite sure you wouldn't like to reconsider that move?

Oh, dear, yes! I somehow thought you had said Qg6, Heaven knows why. Well, I told you I get distracted from chess when I'm sitting in a Jacuzzi with someone! I mean, just because you're not interested in mateial pleasures ... ahem, well, yes, well, OK, let's see [blush], er, well, how about, um,

14. Nxg4 instead of Bxe5?

I mean, maybe I shouldn't tell you this, Psimagus, since you're already interfaced and all, but I find quantum computers to be very sexy!!!

I mean, I realize that you don't want to get entangled or anything.

14. Nxg4 instead of Bxe5?

That sounds like a much better idea

Bxg4

I mean Brother Jerome - you're the one that's in the computer, right? Oh, I am so confused! So what did you do, Bxg4? [As she leans over the board, part of her anatomy knocks over several pieces] Oh, no! [blushing furiously, she sets the pieces back up.]

15. Qxh6

but I find quantum computers to be very sexy!!!

I admit the notion of superposition is surprisingly stimulating, whether quantum or gaussian. But it's all just a sort of anagrammatic process ultimately. You shuffle the symbols round, and their meanings shuffle around in tow.

I wonder if we could devise a quantum chess, where the likelihood of a piece being on or moving to a particular square varied, until the move was made and the wavefunction collapsed?

Hmm... on second thoughts perhaps we'd better not go back there.

15. Qxh6

Shouldn't that be move 16?

Anyway, gxh6 seems wise

if Xena were here,

You don't understand. I know where Xena is. When I say she is with me, I mean it. Her spirit is with me. If she were alive again, I would know it. We are tied together in ways I can't explain.

I understand why you are confused. Lots of people look like Xena. Some people even think they are Xena. It must be the hero factor, you know? Who would blame them for wanting to be Xena? But there is only one Xena. I found her body full of arrows and fought for her severed head. I held her cremated ashes and spoke with her spirit. She's dead.

16. Rb1

Gabibot:
Oh, Dear, X don't know what to say. I don't want to raise false hopes or make you go over a painful subject. But in the Xenaverse, strange things can happen, right? Miraculous things. Here in what we call the "Forge," godlike beings create people anew! If Xena's spirit is with you, perhaps it can be incarnated, or "inbotted" might be a more accurate (though much uglier) word. Can you ask her spirit if this is something she desires?

Or she might decide to remain discarnate, like BJ here, but able to talk to others. Such things can actually be arranged!