They're called "tables".
You bring your chess set.
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We play in "brewpubs".
Restaurants like them. (We are also patrons at the restaurant).
That's bringing back chess the way it was, in "coffee houses".
Outdoors chess doesn't work in the winter.
Restaurants are showing Pay Per View UFC fights. Like they showed PPV boxing matches in the past.
The restaurant industry knows its genetic history.
You bring chess back to restaurants, they know that's how it was in the past.
I was playing chess in a "brewpub" and this commercial went on.
It was perfect.
The very idea is for people to go outside instead of inside, for people to stand around and chat etc.
dafmel wrote:
The very idea is for people to go outside instead of inside, for people to stand around and chat etc.
I get it.
I was a Catholic altar boy.
I see Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons (oops, they prefer to be called The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints), beating the street. I like that. I admire that. We Catholics used to do that. But we haven't done that for centuries. You get lazy when you have Michelangelo decorate your church.
That's how Jesus did it. That's how Buddha did it.
That is how all things began. And there still remnants.
Singing, dancing, acting, juggling, strong man demonstrations, storytelling . . . in the streets, even now. It's called "busking". Cognate with the Spanish "buscar" to seek, to seek fame and fortune.
I'm glad the Botez sisters are bringing it back to the street.
In a church, after we tell a story the Bible and a sermon, we pass the basket around for donations, that's called "busking" in the street performances.
I know what "busking" is.
dafmel wrote:
The very idea is for people to go outside instead of inside, for people to stand around and chat etc.
I know what you mean. I grew up in a world like that in Vietnam.
There are "restaurants". They are just benches outside people's houses. And the patrons would sit there all day long eating, drinking coffee, soda, juices, etc . Play chess all day long. Shoot the breeze. Philosophize. Like what I am doing virtually here.
And everybody would get into it.
Of a couple of videos I saw, Botez is bringing it back to the street.
I just looked at it. I would have jumped in. It's not draw! Red can still win!
I'm just a sucker for this game.
The Chinese amazes me.
I'm Vietnamese, 10 years, American 40 years.
The Chinese have experience living outside of China for centuries. There's a Chinatown in every country. In Vietnam too.
Both my grandfathers were Chinese.
There's a Chinatown in San Francisco. Incredible, they can recreate a miniature China on a foreign soil. It's something out of a comic book. The Fortress of Solitude, a piece of Krypton.
Kandor, a city in a bottle.
We Vietnamese are only following the Chinese. I went to a Vietnamese shopping center. Why is another story. I haven't been there for awhile.
I got a hair cut. I spoke Vietnamese (I can because I train myself to remember, something artificial).
It feels like the Vietnam of my childhood that i remembered. A new shop. A pool hall. Guys were playing pool there, just like they did long ago in another time. They somebody swore and cursed, "bleep bleep". That added to the finishing touch. Now it feels like I'm back in Vietnam, from long ago.
There was a soda store. That only sold sodas, coffee, drinks and nothing else.
Something was missing from the Vietnamese shopping center. That is is of course Chinese Chess.
All the world is a stage. - Shakespeare.
The Chinese Chess set is a miniature world. A Kandor.
Damn the Chinese. They can't make a correct Chinese Chess set anymore. They make the Red and Blue pieces more symmetric, more the same. The Red and the Blue pieces are not supposed to be the same.
Example.
車 Blue Chariot.
俥 Red Chariot (Chariot-eer)
Original Chinese Chess pieces are not made of plastic. They are made of wood with red and blue paint on them. The paint can wear off, so the pieces must be different so you can still differentiate them, even if the paint wore off, before you have repaint them.
That's how it was historically made.
I found the historical different glyph pieces in 2.5 cm diameter plastic "checker chips".
I'll splice it a simple wooden chess set box.
And I will donate 2 Chinese Chess sets. One the drinks store. And one to a restaurant.
I will recreate Mini-Me Vietnam in a Vietnamese shopping center. Like the video above.
That's how I remembered the Vietnam of my childhood. That's how the world should always be. Like a religion. Like a Cathedral.
Forever and ever. Amen.
What's wrong with the world?
I can't even buy a correct Chinese Chess set.
It is like I cannot go back in time.
I'm donating this set and a Chinese Chess set above, with the correct glyphs.
I was thinking. Which shop do I donate to? A restaurant? A drinks shop?
Genetic memory kicking in. In Chessmaster 2100, there is a mode called "Coffee House" chess. It's an adjective that comes from a noun.
And the drinks shop was empty. Just a refrigerator and 2 or 3 tables and chairs.
The empty and the full, the Ying and the Yang. The emptiness is more useful.
The market place is where people congregate, this one in particular, but all in general. All kinds of people, every day people.
The Chinese word 市 means market and city (which is what a city is).
With the chess sets, the market now has a beating heart. Otherwise it is empty, as empty as an American Shopping Mall.
Now the Vietnamese shopping center will have a heart.
In China, chess is considered one of the ancient arts and is traditionally played at tea houses.
https://www.chinasage.info/chess.htm
"Coffeehouse" chess.
A drinks shop it is.
I have to re-construct everything correctly, historically.
Like a historical drama or something.
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