HoNoToGroABeMo Day Thirty-One: It Is Done
6 years ago
10:36 AM
I found yet another decent photo hosting service-- IMAGESHACK. It's another upload without logging in site, with surprisngly few bells and whistles. Here's Spawn and myself (young Master G) playing CHESS and POLARIS last night.
Searching for Bobby Fisher!
Young Gar plays a suprisingly aggressive game of chess. Here I am trying to teach him the rudiments of the Philidor defense and the Ruy Lopez.
Spawn knows when he is being patronized and doesn't like me to go easy on him.
We also played PROTEUS, a keeno chess-like game using special dice that promote or demote from PAWN->KNIGHT->BISHOP->ROOK->QUEEN and back down to a PYRAMID. The pyramid stays immobile and gets you no points-- it also stays a Pyramid once you turn it into one. The Pawn is 1, the Knight 3, the Bishop 4, Rook 5 and Queen = 6 points (all if captured.. and you can't capture a Pyramid).
I didn't go easy on Gar, and he took a few pieces, but ended up checkmated. He likes Chess... there's hope!
Steve Jackson Games, the guys who make Proteus and Knightmare Chess, also have a free online chessboard for you to print out and play with.
Searching for Bobby Fisher!
Young Gar plays a suprisingly aggressive game of chess. Here I am trying to teach him the rudiments of the Philidor defense and the Ruy Lopez.
Spawn knows when he is being patronized and doesn't like me to go easy on him.
We also played PROTEUS, a keeno chess-like game using special dice that promote or demote from PAWN->KNIGHT->BISHOP->ROOK->QUEEN and back down to a PYRAMID. The pyramid stays immobile and gets you no points-- it also stays a Pyramid once you turn it into one. The Pawn is 1, the Knight 3, the Bishop 4, Rook 5 and Queen = 6 points (all if captured.. and you can't capture a Pyramid).
I didn't go easy on Gar, and he took a few pieces, but ended up checkmated. He likes Chess... there's hope!
Steve Jackson Games, the guys who make Proteus and Knightmare Chess, also have a free online chessboard for you to print out and play with.
