We require but two photographs to describe this afternoon’s tabletop sport, for the King’s arrows were sharp in the heart of his enemies who were attempting to besiege him. The besiegers, the Green Dragons, had erected a watch tower to guard the approach to the Castle of the King of [Read more…]
This is the state of play after several hours of idle chat that took us on a ramble through several centuries of European literature, with a nod to the Confucian Analects and a bottle of Montepulciano D’Abruzzo from the Casale Vecchio, which is to say, being translated, an antique fort, [Read more…]
In chess, Ablenkung is the art of luring your opponent into removing a piece from an advantageous position so as to give yourself access to a file, row or area of the board of vital concern to the outcome of your game. What is the best way of doing that? [Read more…]
Remember how in the Iliad Aphrodite rescues Paris from certain death in his single combat with Menelaus and deposits him upon the bosom of Helen? The queen of love her favour’d champion shrouds(For gods can all things) in a veil of clouds.Raised from the field the panting youth she led,And [Read more…]
On Tuesday evening I met up with Ardle and took him along to Dr M’s for a much-anticipated game of chess between two players who have recently taken up the game again, as I have, after a long period of neglect. In my estimation, Dr M and Ardle are pretty [Read more…]
Title: Chess Match Location: Hiroshima Description: Dr M (Japan) v Ardle (England) Two evenly matched players meet in a friendly chess match supervised by DPH… The odds slightly favour Ardle, but Dr M will be keen to apply his experience of playing Shogi (Japanese chess) to foil Ardle’s tentative attacks… [Read more…]
In seeking to breach the lofty walls of our castle we have bethought us of the necessity of constructing a siege tower. We do not yet have such a multitude of Lego bricks to allow us to build a perfectly conceived engine of war as is pictured below. We do [Read more…]
History in English Lesson: Having made some headway through the XXIst chapter of Gibbon‘s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in which the early church dispute over the relationship of the Son to the Father, the homoousion or “consubstantial” position of the the Orthodox party (which itself included a [Read more…]
This afternoon’s Lego Kingdoms minifigures scenario took the arts of investing and defending the Lego Kingdom Castle to new heights. Today, the Lego Kingdom knights adopted a more prudent defence than usual… Mr Ardle arrived armed with standard strength ale and a powerful bb gun which turned a tuppenny-ha’penny Green [Read more…]
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