Draughts or Chess? Monday, May 5 2008
Daily and East Wind Games and Faire and Festival and Game and Photoblog and Texas 9:54 pm
3 May 2008
Saturday. Week 5 of Scarborough Faire.
Happy Birthday Starr!
The day was phenomenal for a faire day. Temperature in the low 70’s with a slight breeze and sunshine. Can you ask for better? Here you see a family playing chess on my large chess table that I have set up in the front yard. In the foreground, next to a small garden is another table with a jumbo draughts (Americans call it Checkers) set.
I was taught to play draughts at an extremely early age, as are I think most American youth. I grew, quickly, to detest the game because I either won too quickly or lost too quickly. There was no challenge in the game. As the owner of a game store, I have found a new love for draughts, but not in the form I was taught. There are, literally, hundreds of draughts variations that enhance the game and make it much more challenging and oh, so much more fun. My favourite version is Irish Draughts and I sometimes play it to distraction.
Cheers.
~KR (Written on 5 May 2008 )
Listening to:
We’ve Been Had by Walkmen
from The Walkmen
Camera: Canon PowerShot SD850 IS
Exposure: 0.002 sec (1/500)
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 5.8 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Exposure Bias: 0/3 EV
Flash: Flash did not fire, auto mode
7 May, 2008 at 8:24 pm
Gramps liked checkers and taught me when I was just a little kid. He developed his own interesting checker problem by placing checkers on the regular squares but taking the center two and setting them on the side squares. The object is to capture as many men as possible in any sequence. The object is to have only one man left. There is more than one way to achieve this result but enough to pull your hair out trying achieve it.