Last Minute Gift Ideas for Christmas and for Always.

Last Minute Gift Ideas for Christmas and for Always. Cigarettes.. Great stocking stuffer.   Soviet vintage wooden checkers from 1962 https://www.etsy.com/USSRovskyVintage/listing/704832150/nos-soviet-checker-1962-vintage-wooden?utm_campaign=Share&utm_medium=social_organic&utm_source=DSMT2&utm_term=so.smt&share_time=1572899704000   Vintage 8-sided Poker Dice Set of 5 Game https://www.ebay.com/itm/163986294268    Vintage board games … Snakes and Ladders POSTERS… https://fineartamerica.com/featured/rooftop-giant-checkers-game-underwood-archives.html?product=poster       Continue reading

BYTE Magazine Oct. 1977

BYTE MAGAZINE . Oct 1977 Byte Magazine Volume 02 Number 10 – Implementing Space War Featuring two articles on classic board games .. Othello and Chess https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1977-10/1977_10_BYTE_02-10_Implementing_Space_War#page/n61/mode/2up https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1977-10/1977_10_BYTE_02-10_Implementing_Space_War#page/n161/mode/2up Continue reading

Random Games and Information

Random Games and Information … Bobby Fischer 1962  Candidates Tournament 2 May – 26 June in Curacao in order to determine the Challenger for Mikhail Botvinnik, the World Champion. Event “ct”] [Site “Curacao”] [Date “1962.??.??”] [Round “22”] [White “Fischer R”] [Black “Benko P”] [Result “1-0”]        Rd22 Fischer-Benko… Continue reading

Happy Independence Day

Happy Independence Day !!  Celebrating 173 (1845) years of American Chess What’s more American than Hershey’s Chocolate , Coca – Cola or the Doors?   This guy.. [Event “Morphy – Mongredien”] [Site “Paris FRA”] [Date “1859.03.??”] [EventDate “1859.??.??”] [Round “6”] [Result “1-0”] [White “Paul Morphy”] [Black “Augustus Mongredien”] [ECO “C40”]… Continue reading