Pawnderings on Games

Chess, similar to Go, is a tough game for the "gamer" to get into. By a "gamer" I mean the sort of person who likes game...

One of my more amusing past times is tracking down made-up quotes attributed to famous people. I happened to come across one today that sou...

Got my copy Saturday morning and started reading after lunch. Aside from one break I read until I was done. When I have some time, I plan to...

It isn't often boardgames make the news, but a rather big deal was made this week of checkers being "solved" by a computer pr...

A well-reasoned and provocative lessons learned: http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2007/07/lessons-learned.html

As a member of the media, I'm disappointed in the coverage of government and politics recently. There's been a slow, downhill slide ...

One difficulty in writing a review for an ancient game that's no longer actively played, such as the ancient Roman game Latrunculi , is ...

The authors of the Constitution went through considerable effort to make sure the war-making power was vested in the legislative branch, rat...

Not that I'm superstitious, or anything like that. Not at all. Really.

There's really no currently accepted generic term for them (like RPGs , hex -and-counter wargames , CCGs , card-driven wargames , block ...

Wes Pruden , in the middle of mocking Bill Clinton's brassiness for talking about the Libby deal given his own 11 th -hour shenanigans...

My young daughter has the nickname of "parrot' because she has a habit of repeating the last thing that's been said within ears...

I wrapped up one of my two anti-Bush books I've been reading. Glenn Greenwald's A Tragic Legacy is definitely the quicker read. It...

There are a select few games that are satisfying enough to absorb all of a person's gaming energy. Common examples are chess, go, bridge...

I'm reading two books right now, which have cut into blogging time a little. I'm not finished with either one, but I'll share so...

One of the bigger trends in the last few years has been the explosion of board wargames using miniatures, often pre -painted, instead of th...

Seega one of those traditional games that are popular in game compendium books. For example, it appears in R.C. Bell's Boardgame Book...

There have been a lot of speculative wargames over the years looking at potential conflicts, but despite all the talk about a possible U.S....

According to Obsidian Wings, a Human Rights report suggests that the U.S. has "disappeared" a few dozen people in connection with ...

It would be a lot easier to argue with those cynics of the American justice system who claim that money, power and whiteness will allow you ...