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By Henry Mance, mostly about me (as you might expect), here is the tale of when I first encountered Sam Bankman-Fried:

They played bughouse chess, a variation of the game. “He was good. He was better at bughouse than at chess. It’s a very important concept for understanding FTX. You have four people and two boards. If I take your piece on this board, I hand it to my partner, and my partner can plunk the piece down in lieu of making a move. You can be in this desperate situation, all of a sudden your partner hands you a queen. So there’s no balance sheet in bughouse chess. Things come out of nowhere to save you. You play desperately and take a lot of risk. If people play bughouse, that’s their core mentality.”

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