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9 SATURDAY - SEPTEMBER 1972
ROSH HASHANA - JEWISH NEW YEAR - 253RD DAY - 113 DAYS TO COME

Rcd. [received] a letter from Frank Armbruster. Asked if anything like AUTOBRIDGE had ever been done for CHESS. He still doesn't have an answer from the V.P. about Santa Clara taking over my collection. Sent a pamphlet listing courses, including his on games.

Thought up a game I call later called POST-HASTE. The board is as shown. [drawing of a board. There is empty space in the inside of the board that is in the shape of a U, the board is made of rectangles in a line around the edge of the U. The rectangles are in colors green, yellow, red, and blue. The colors are not in a particular pattern] Moves are moved in accordance with the number of pcs. [pieces] on that color at the time of the move.

Played with BB, Barbara, Dave, and Susy Horn. I sat out one game and Barbara the second. Rules:- A black barrier is set between any two boxes, the arrow setting the direction of play. When four play each player has 3 pcs. of a color matching one of the colors on the board. They are placed in the first 3 spaces leading from the arrow barrier. Choose for first in any convenient manner. A player in his turn moves any of his pieces. The length of move is determined by the number of pcs., friendly or enemy, that are on boxes of that color the time of the move. If no pcs. are on boxes of that color the player moves each of his pcs. the number of boxes equal to the number of pcs. he has in the race at that time. When a pc. goes over the barrier its position still counts in determining a move. First to get his pcs. over the barrier wins.

When 2 play each plays two colors of 3 pcs. each. On a turn can choose the one he wishes to play. When 3 play each has 4 pcs.

(cont. from 9/10)[9/24]

I asked about THE GAME and POLYOPTOMY. He said the games were really nothing, but he'll send me the rules and description of the equipment. (The company still hasn't paid for their ad.)

He can usually get as many copies of a new game as he wants. He offered to send me the ones I want. I suggested sending me the rules, etc. first and then I would request certain that I need the equipment of. I also suggested taking the postage out of my column payments. He agreed, since airmail gets very expensive.

I showed him Anthony Dicken's A GUIDE TO FAIRY CHESS and gave him Anthony's address. At present, tho, he doesn't think he'll go in for CHESS variants.

Graeme has two GAMEs coming out with a company, big other- wise, but just going into games. It must remain secret now. The "Reader's Games" section in G & P is being discontinued. They get hundreds of entries, but little of value, and even there they have to do a lot of work on the games. I mentioned that the description of SPROUTS had been too (cont. on 7/30)