Friday, June 03, 2005
How About a Nice Game of Chess?
Here's a picture of the chess game Phil and I played over the weekend.
The rules of Phil Chess (like Calvinball) seem to be made up on the fly. The game started with each player taking turns moving a piece randomly across the board until it encountered another piece. At that point the other player's piece would be captured (usually with the first piece doing a victory dance on the losing piece) and it would get taken off the board. After several back-and-forth rounds of this, Phil decided that a Bishop could fly across the board like a cruise missile and take out a row of pawns.
A game that combines chess with Thermo-Nuclear War. That's my kind of game.
The rules of Phil Chess (like Calvinball) seem to be made up on the fly. The game started with each player taking turns moving a piece randomly across the board until it encountered another piece. At that point the other player's piece would be captured (usually with the first piece doing a victory dance on the losing piece) and it would get taken off the board. After several back-and-forth rounds of this, Phil decided that a Bishop could fly across the board like a cruise missile and take out a row of pawns.
A game that combines chess with Thermo-Nuclear War. That's my kind of game.
Mikesell
3 Snarky Remarks:
lindaruth, at 5:39 PM
Yes, Phil's into Star Wars: Episode 1 (which isn't quite as bad as I'd remembered it) right now (plus the animated Clone Wars), so his Legps are used for building transport ships and fighters (usually these are small, though) and so on.
They tend to make nice "explosions" when dropped from high orbit.
--Chris
They tend to make nice "explosions" when dropped from high orbit.
--Chris
As the boy gets bigger, the Lego constructions get bigger -- Sam has built ships that must have weighed at least 5 pounds and were a couple of feet long!
The boys played with Legos for a long time (longer than I expected them to, at least). But then, they had quite elaborate rules of engagement -- playing Legos was more like role-playing games with them. But it was fun to listen to them and it certainly engaged their imaginations.
Linda
The boys played with Legos for a long time (longer than I expected them to, at least). But then, they had quite elaborate rules of engagement -- playing Legos was more like role-playing games with them. But it was fun to listen to them and it certainly engaged their imaginations.
Linda
Linda