Arnold, thanks for teaching me bridge and the Precision system. You were an excellent teacher, player, and partner. I now play bridge online regularly, both by myself and with friends. It's a great game, but I wonder if it will survive the fact that few young people are taking it up. Euchre is much easier to learn and play, so I think it will endure. You picked it up in a few minutes and immediately went alone in your very first game, as if you had been playing it for years.
The only games my family (the adults) played were card games and 95% of that was canasta which ended around age 13 for me when the couple my parents played with moved away. Their son and myself started playing with them when we were around age 11 and within a few nights of playing we were winning regularly as a team.
My father taught me the game of chess when I was 5 but he didn't like playing and I had no one to play until I was a senior in high school and then not again until the late 1990s when I finally got online and played recreationally on Yahoo Games until they shut the games server 11 years ago. I really haven't played since though I still watch lots of chess game analysis videos. I was always very interested in the game but had to channel that energy into chess problem solving from elementary school until just a few years ago.
I played baseball and basketball growing up and picked both up again in my mid 20s (after a hiatus in college and grad school) in recreational leagues until I was in my mid 40s.
I, too, was a Strat-O-Matic obsessive as a kid. I especially enjoyed the "Old Timers" series where you could have the '27 Yankees play the '32 Dodgers. Fortunately, basketball came along and that was a much healthier focus for my OCD. I always thought I would play in the NBA until I went to 5 Star basketball camp and encountered some real players . Geoff Petrie was my counselor and Bobby Knight ran the place (he was coaching Army at the time. Dick Krzyzewski was one of his players and I think he was also a counselor.) What a maniac. I ended up choosing a different career path.
Have you ever read Robert Coover's "The Universal Baseball Association"? Not the best novel as I recall, but interesting. It cut a little bit too close to the bone.
Arnold, thanks for teaching me bridge and the Precision system. You were an excellent teacher, player, and partner. I now play bridge online regularly, both by myself and with friends. It's a great game, but I wonder if it will survive the fact that few young people are taking it up. Euchre is much easier to learn and play, so I think it will endure. You picked it up in a few minutes and immediately went alone in your very first game, as if you had been playing it for years.
I feel bad for young Arnold Kling. Somebody get this kid some friends to play with!
The only games my family (the adults) played were card games and 95% of that was canasta which ended around age 13 for me when the couple my parents played with moved away. Their son and myself started playing with them when we were around age 11 and within a few nights of playing we were winning regularly as a team.
My father taught me the game of chess when I was 5 but he didn't like playing and I had no one to play until I was a senior in high school and then not again until the late 1990s when I finally got online and played recreationally on Yahoo Games until they shut the games server 11 years ago. I really haven't played since though I still watch lots of chess game analysis videos. I was always very interested in the game but had to channel that energy into chess problem solving from elementary school until just a few years ago.
I played baseball and basketball growing up and picked both up again in my mid 20s (after a hiatus in college and grad school) in recreational leagues until I was in my mid 40s.
I, too, was a Strat-O-Matic obsessive as a kid. I especially enjoyed the "Old Timers" series where you could have the '27 Yankees play the '32 Dodgers. Fortunately, basketball came along and that was a much healthier focus for my OCD. I always thought I would play in the NBA until I went to 5 Star basketball camp and encountered some real players . Geoff Petrie was my counselor and Bobby Knight ran the place (he was coaching Army at the time. Dick Krzyzewski was one of his players and I think he was also a counselor.) What a maniac. I ended up choosing a different career path.
Have you ever read Robert Coover's "The Universal Baseball Association"? Not the best novel as I recall, but interesting. It cut a little bit too close to the bone.