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SUNDAY 10 OCTOBER Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity 1971 283rd day - 82 days to come

With BB [Bernice Sackson] visited Michael Dummett. He didn't have any of the reproductions that I had asked for last time he visited me. He said he would start pre- paring them and sending them to me, starting with the article on MINCHIATE.

In his library saw a book JEUX D'INTÉRIEUR - présentés par [diagram showing 11 white and 10 shaded rectangles laid out in rows] C. Chicandard, S. Cantineau, and G. Prichard (Gautier-Lauguareau-Paris-1968). It had a game LES DEUX MAISONS which is new to me. A 52 card deck is used and and any 18 cards from a 2nd deck. These 18 cards are placed face down as shown in the diagram by hatched lines. The full deck is divided into red and black cards, which are given to the 2 players. 11 are counted off from each pack and the 22 cards are shuffled together. Then they are dealt out, face up, as shown in the illus- tration by unlined rectangles. Each player tries to bring the card of his color that are placed on the other side of the face- down area back to his side first. In a turn a player picks one of his cards and moves it to adjacent (diagonally) cards and can continue, card by card, until he reaches the beginning of the face down cards. He leaves the card face up on the face down card. An em- pty space in the fan field is then replaced with another faceup card from his pack. When a card reaches his home field it comes to rest on one of his color already there. In moving from card to card a player may not step on cards of the opponent's color two times in a row. (What happens if a card is isolated in the initial deal so that it must cross two enemy cards?) The first player to move all his cards into his home field wins. (Not sure of all of the details.)

Gave Michael a copy of the S&T promotional game, 

NAPOLEON AT WATERLOO, (He gave it to his children.)

Michael showed me DIMENSION WARFARE CHESS (from Soochow China). It seemed to be an elaborate wargame, an extension of CHESS with pcs. [pieces] - land, sea, and air - of modern warfare. Michael was willing to give it to me, but thinks he might be able to get a friend to translate the Chinese rules. So he kept it.

He had a game KARGO (CARD-GOLF) (Copyright 1931 by Gaymes Ltd.). It seemed a rather interesting game of its type. Michael borrowed it from someone, but will get me a copy of the rules and a description of the cards before returning it.

He also had the book THE GAME KHANHOO by William Henry (cont. on 10/8)