Homo Ludens

The first chess book I read was a wonderful and typically eccentric (it's not oxymoronic to say "typically eccentric" when the authors are English!) beginners' manual, The Chess Apprentice. I still remember the epigraph:

The little angels of Heaven

Each wear a long white dress,

And in the tall arcadings

Play ball and play at chess;

To be human is to be creative, and we're at our most creative when we're playing games. Here's a mental health break that you might find timely in more than one sense:



I hope to see many of you at the memorial service for Jon Burgess tomorrow!