October 26
I feel stupid for posting this. I'm not that excited about the chess set, you don't seem very excited either, and I just didn't have my camera with me today. (!)
Today was interesting, though. Three of us studied Galois theory and then went to lunch, then after class again we (only two now) studied Galois theory, and then went to dinner, but there was another BSMer who knows a lot of math, and he taught us a lot of stuff. So we had dinner at a Chinese restaurant, and meanwhile talked about math: the set-theoretic construction of the natural numbers, a hierarchy of algebraic structures, p-adic numbers, etc. (The latter is actually relevant to what I plan to do and I am more excited now.)
I wish I could share a picture of something from today, but I have only the symmetry of the chess pieces.
If you flip to the other side, you get the board?
ReplyDeleteWe have a frosted glass chessboard! I think it still exists, but it resides in a box. It's heavy. As a child I was always amused by giant chess, until I was triple+ the height of the pieces. :(
Yep.
ReplyDeleteOoh, glass chessboard. Chess pieces need fresh air and exercise. They don't like being stuck in a box.
Chess is fun when you're little. Then it becomes really serious, you start worrying about keeping your rating, etc. Not as fun.
Chess is fun when you are little, and you use the squares to place all the pieces in a diagonal ordered by height, but leave a center gap for the king and queen because you're holding a wedding.
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I didn't know what I was doing!!
Now, it's just not fun because I still don't know how to play. I only succeed at losing.