09.24.03
Urban chess
Inspired by Kevan’s throwaway comments about street chess, I thought urban chess would work better if it were based not on finding, but on setting out chess pieces.
So, take eight pawns of one colour. Set them out on paving slabs along your route to work, each one eight slabs away from some fixed point worth marking (your home, the bakery, a pillar box). Each time you pass them, you may move them one slab further. If any reach their destinations, you win.
Notes:
1. To save needless frustration, play in one direction only.
2. If you know that you walk the same route as someone else, but in the opposite direction, get them to play with the other colour of pawn.
Jane said,
September 25, 2003 at 10:49 pm
There is also Cat Chess, played by cats: no human knows the rules but the following may be deduced: a key element is being able to see all other ambient cats without being seen yourself, and you may move only when they all happen to be distracted by something or are having a little wash, in a high-speed, belly-down, slink.
D.R. Willis said,
August 1, 2004 at 12:01 am
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