Passing on the Buck

It’s great when the little ones take an interest in the games that you loved to play but haven’t had a chance of doing so in years. Today this young lady decided to take an interest in draughts. I dashed upstairs to get the board and soon we had an audience with the whole family. I first decided on a quick experiment by setting up the counters on the white squares as the eldest niece requested, but we soon discovered that we didn’t have enough counter for this feat to take place. Perhaps next time we should rotate the board. We soon went into battle explaining the rules as we went along. Eventually the younger one lost interest but her mother was also keen to learn so after giving impartial advice we went into a climatic of a mother with six kings against her daughter’s four. Eventually her daughter managed to outflank her and finish the game with two double jumps.