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17 MONDAY - JULY 1972
199TH DAY - 167 DAYS TO COME

Finished a very rough set for playind playing
THE GENTLE ART OF POLITICS, with 12 "Deal Cards".

Letter from Bill Rawlings about our PROXIMITY CHESS and
FOCUS games.

FOREIGN INTRIGUE finally came back from 3M. The box was
all mashed up but the components weren't in too bad shape.

To Benton & Bowles. Arthue & Wald just arrived and Claude
came a little later. (Wexler must have been there.)
Amberstones told me about their method of playing KRIEGSPIEL
without the use of a third person to check the moves. The
board has a grid of 64 holes.There are 64 pegs. 32
are blank at both ends. The others are blank at one end but
have CHESS pieces [illegible crossed out] pictured at the other end.
The game starts with the pieces in their regular spaces and the
blank pegs in the other 4 rows. When a player makes a
move he switches the peg of the pc. with the blank peg in
the space he moves to. When an opponent's pc. is discovered it
is captured. To make the game playable a new rule is added.
A piece can jumpover an opponent's pc., but not over his own.
(How do you know when a king is in check?)
Amberstones had a game COURIER which they played 2-hand
before Claude came. Then we all played 4-hand. The board
is a large map of the world. The capital cities of 6
countries are starred: U.S., Russia, China, India, France,
and Egypt.