Helen Plum Library

"Learning to play chess is almost a life skill. Many people play it and even more reference its strategy in all kinds of conversations. It's a great game for young people to become familiar with--and even learn to love! This book gives a thorough, but simple, overview of the basic rules and moves of chess. From how to use each piece to some popular strategies, the game play outlined helps new players head right to the chess board after reading!"--Amazon.com...

A game for two which requires judgement and planning to collect the most balls following certain rules. The objective is to take more "exposed" pieces than your opponent

Each player tries to fit as many game pieces on the board as possible

When young Alan Parrish discovers a mysterious board game, he doesn't realize its unimaginable powers, until he is magically transported before the startled eyes of his friend, Sarah, into the untamed jungles of Jumanji! There he remains for 26 years until he is freed from the game's spell by two unsuspecting children. Now a grown man, Alan reunites with Sarah and together with Judy and Peter tries to outwit the game's powerful forces

Counters placed on the board in a manner that a straight and unbroken row of the opponents' counters is "closed in"--Annexation of the opponents' counters is the aim

For centuries, countless thousands of chess and checker players have gazed absently at the other side of the board, never wondering what it was all about. It never occurred to most of them that they already had in their possession most of the basic implements for one of the keenest games of all time, a game which not only deserves to be ranked with checkers and chess, but has some fascinating an unusual points of its own: Backgammon. We say "most"...

Letterati spans the history of competitive Scrabble® in North America from the colorful hustlers of the 1960s New York game rooms, to the hard driving quantitative tile pushers who dominate the game today with strategic skills and memorized vocabularies. Yet, there is more to the history of Scrabble® than just playing the game. There is a parallel plot line that revolves around many of the top players, who over the years have wanted to see the game...

How do YOU play ? Aspiring to the Well-Played Game can profoundly shape our characters, for the better! After 35-years of gaming, together the authors noticed that the lessons they learned around the game table were helping them and their family in all sorts of ways. This is their love letter to the hobby of adult board games. It examines the role of these games in the formation of our characters as we learn to win and lose gracefully. It looks at...

Stefan Fatsis, a former Wall Street Journal reporter and National Public Radio regular, recounts his remarkable rise through the ranks of elite Scrabble players while exploring the game's strange, potent hold over them-and him. Scrabble might truly be called America's game. More than two million sets are sold every year and at least thirty million American homes have one. But the game's most talented competitors inhabit a sphere far removed from the...

This book describes the Triple Set / Double Platform Game. A triple set game involves the use of three unique chess sets played on an Advance chess game board called Model III. This book depicts the Double Platform game specifically Game # 2. Model III consists of two game boards or Star Fish Models that serve as a single unit. The two game boards position asymmetrically. The first game board that is closer to Player I (you) is the Top (Air) Platform...