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<u>Wald Amberstone</u> called. He has a friend who would like a <br> | <u>Wald Amberstone</u> called. He has a friend who would like a <br> | ||
copy of <u>ACQUIRE</u> but can't afford the price. | copy of <u>ACQUIRE</u> but can't afford the price. Wald wondered if <br> | ||
I could get copies wholesale. Told him that I couldn't <br> | |||
but that I would check whether I had an old set I could <br> | |||
let him have, as soon as I get a free moment. <br> | |||
I asked him whether it would be O.K. to send <u>Arthur</u>'s address <br> | |||
to someone who was interested in <u>POWER</u>. Sure. | |||
<u>Al & Adela Richter</u> here for a short visit (baby sitter <br> | |||
called that Laura was sick). <br> | |||
We played a little of a new <u>GAME</u> Al was fooling around with. | |||
[Diagram of a 7 x 7 square grid board. Two spaces in the center column are marked with three stars [***] (rows second from top and second from bottom). The space in the center row of the far left column is marked with two stars [**].] | |||
Each player has a given number of <br> | |||
checkers (18, I think). They are <br> | |||
started one at a time in the players <br> | |||
nearest row and then immediately <br> | |||
moved forward (which just eliminates the outside <br> | |||
rows and Al will change this). <br> | |||
Plain piecesmove one space in any orthogonal <br> | |||
direction. Captures are by replacement. <br> | |||
When a piece lands on the ** <br> | |||
space it gets a 2nd pc. placed on it and <br> | |||
adds a one space diagonal move. When <br> | |||
a piece (or is it only a 2-high) lands <br> | |||
on an opposite *** it is made 3 high. It can then move two spaces in <br> | |||
any direction (or is it only orthogonal). Didn't work very well. | |||