Feb
17
Chess On Ice, from Alan Millhone
February 17, 2010 |
Watching curling as I type, the announcer just likened curling to Chess on ice and spoke of Pawns etc. It would be nice in competitive Chess or Checkers to have the two "sweepers" ahead of you on the board to make way for your advancing pieces so one can make a 'clean sweep'. Is there also be an application to the Market?
Nigel Davies writes:
On hearing a commentator describe snooker as chess with balls one of my more mathematically inclined colleagues produced the following:
snooker = chess + balls
chess = snooker - balls (subtracting balls from both sides)
In the same spirit may I offer the following:
curling = chess on ice
chess = curling off ice
But I guess that board game players should take these comparisons as a compliment…
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Curling & snooker in one blog! You’ve just sent me back in a time capsule to McGill University, 1970, where both were in abundance. It was quite an eye-opener to a transplant from “the States” (USA), who had never heard of either one before! Every schoolyard had an ice rink, and every dorm had snooker tables.
Therefore,
Curling - Ice = Snooker - Balls, or,
Curling + Balls = Snooker + Ice
Now THAT’s a sport I want to see.