[Noisebridge-discuss] What's a non-trivial equipmentless game?

[Sai Emrys]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Don French <dcfrench at gmail.com> wrote:
> You mean blindfold chess, right?  Otherwise it requires equipment.  I played
> blindfold chess with a friend once as we drove across country but it gives
> me a headache to even think about it now.  George Koltanowski, the previous
> editor of the SF Chronicle's chess column set an early record for playing 34
> simultaneous blindfold chess games.   Of course he only won 24 of them, so
> ...  Much later in 1960 at the age of 57 he played 56 simultaneous blindfold
> games at 10 seconds per move and won 50 of them.  I knew George from the
> days when he published some of my chess problems and when I asked him how he
> could remember the positions of all those games, he said, "Simple, I just
> replay the moves in my head!"

... maybe I should have specified "for intelligent adults with a
normal stack size". o.o

I have a preference for ones that can be done sensibly when walking
down the street, by people who already know each other, but I'm
finding the other ones interesting too, so *shrug*.

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:19 PM, Thomas Lotze <thomas.lotze at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does Botticelli could under a?  It's one of my favorites of this kind,
> personally.
>
> Also -- Ghost is a good one.  :)

I don't know either.

- Sai