Send Fr. Z your snail-mail 2022 CHRISTMAS CARDS!
Speaking of board games….
Something I picked up on eBay years ago for laughs, had half forgotten about, and came across in the closet this evening. I’m pretty sure it’s the only board game in the world that actually has a Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur (no joke!) pic.twitter.com/qD75iIZ0ip
— Edward Feser (@FeserEdward) December 17, 2022
Meanwhile,…
NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.
Please remember me when shopping online. Thanks in advance. US HERE – UK HERE These links take you to a generic “catholic” search in Amazon, but, once in and browsing or searching, Amazon remembers that you used my link and I get the credit.
1. Rc1 Qd2–Must keep the rook on the 1 rank to hold off checkmate from queen anywhere on the rank.
2. d5c5 Qxd3–Stacked Rooks are good to have.
3. c5c3 Qa6–I’m beginning to lose the thread here.
4. Ra1 . . .
5. Rxg3+ . . . — That only works if the queen did not move to d6 to protect the pawn.
I’ve lost it.
Someone has got to reedit this! Not one chance in the layout or in the content, though…
I would love to play that board game!
1. Rxf2 gxf2
2. Rxf5 Kxf5
3. g4+ Kxg4
4. Kg2
Really nice.
This sat on my chessboard for two days as I tried to sort it out.
In the end it was a pawn race. Nice lesson.
Fortune favors the bold!