my career was in one of the few areas which still, figuratively, remains of the Western chivalric tradition's notion of single combat, trial practice.
However, trial practice here, in spite of some of its self serving rhetoric, has not been as exalted, or as pure, an ideal, as the chivalric ideal of yore.
Doubtless, some would add that the chivalric ideal itself never was what it once was, either.
There are also a few examples from sports and games, such as tennis or chess.
To see some connections among this and other themes here, terms search: team play, Rumpole.
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