The Hopboard challenge

[Ylva Kresh]

Who would like to play a game of hopboard?

I choose red and therefore I start:

F3 to E2

(I have made the horizontal 1-8 and the vertical A-H, counting from the top)

[dANdeLION]

I wouldn't. I always hater checkers. Chess was always my favorite game. Speaking of chess, I'm noticing that in MN, there's a lot of one-on-one conflict that looks suspiciously like a chess match, run by Joyce. I hadn't noticed that the first time I read the books...

[Earthblood]

Dan - they call it hopboard & the game, as described by Terisa, is the same game as checkers. And you are right, Joyce does treat life as a game of hopboard - why do you think he flipped out when Terisa's solution to a stalemate in his game with Havelock was to simlpy tilt all the players off the board & start over? This is tantamount to him killing off everyone he cares about & starting over in his quest to defeat Vagel & Caldwel.

Ylva - I'll have to brush up on my checkers rules & skills before I make a move!

Earthy

[dANdeLION]

And you are right, Joyce does treat life as a game of hopboardEarthy

I was referring to how SRD made the confrontations in the book look like moves on a chessboard; I.E. Teresa vs. Emeris = White Queen vs. Black Bishop; kinda like that. Of course, it is actually a checkerboard, where all the pieces are more equal than on a chessboard, but, my background makes my see things in chess mode.

[Earthblood]

Ahh, I see what you are saying now - that is an interesting concept, one I never really put together b4 - I'll have to read with an eye toward that tendency - good one dAN!

[DukkhaWaynhim]

My great-grandfather taught me how to play checkers. He loved the game, almost to distraction. I remember him saying once that chess was for people that had too much time on their hands.

I see ROdAN's point about MN conflicts looking more like chess. I have an image in my head of SRD chain-smoking cartons of cigarettes while writing MN! The intrigue is so convoluted at points, I had to re-read just to figure out who thought what of whom, and I still get .

I, too, prefer chess to checkers... I guess I have too much time on my hands!

DukkhaWaynhim
[Weird, warped, and taking names!]

[Loredoctor]

I love checkers, too! MSN messenger 6 has a checkers game in it. It's so much fun.

But how do we play the game you are suggesting, Ylva?

[Ylva Kresh]

Just make a move and I will counter. This is of course rather hard since you have to either picture the board in front of you or have a board in front of you... Not impossible though.