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Checkers Basics for Beginners

May 12, 2016Uncategorizedboard, checker rules, checkers, ej gold, game, gorby, gorebagg, play, rules, tabletop game, tournamentgorebagg

checker championship at the WonderCon in 1978. — Checker championship was won by Shaggy at the WonderCon in 1978.

BASIC RULES OF TOURNAMENT CHECKERS:

Players flip a coin to see who goes first. Black always leads the moves and is considered a handicap position.
Place all 24 checkers on the black squares of the board, avoiding the two horizontal strips of black squares on “No-Man’s-Land” in the center of the board.
Pieces can make diagonal moves only, one square at a time except during jumps.
Each player moves one piece in turn.
Initial moves are only forward unless the piece has been crowned king by reaching the opponent’s back line.
If a piece can be taken, it must be taken. Forced moves cause forced captures.
Pieces are taken by jumping over them, from empty square to empty square. Pieces cannot land on top of other pieces.
You can only jump a piece if your piece is directly next to the opponent’s piece.
You must land on an empty square when jumping.
Multiple jumps may be made if conditions are right.
“King Me” is spoken aloud when reaching opponent’s back line, after which that piece can move either forward or backward on the board, but always diagonally.
The game is over when all the pieces of one player are gone. A play can end in a draw.

Those are the very basic rules of checkers. Watching a few games on youtube will give you the confidence you need to try playing a game with a friend. Continue reading →

So You Think Checkers is for Chumps???

May 12, 2016Uncategorizedchecker games, checker rules, checker strategies, checkers, chess, ej gold, gorby, gorebagg, strategies, strategygorebagg

Most people have the impression that checkers is a simple game, while chess is a horrifically complicated game. Actually, both games have extraordinary levels of deepness if you are inclined to pursue the craft at all. I’m posting a few examples of just how incredibly complex the game can be, and how extraordinarily sophisticated the analytical and theoretical levels really are, in the “simple” game of checkers — you know, the cracker or whiskey barrel variety of slow countrified game between two players too lazy to see if it’s rainin’, so they send the dog out and see if it comes back in wet. Continue reading →

Coin Checkers is as old as Humanity

May 10, 2016Uncategorizedcheckers, chess, coin, coinage, coinology, denominations, ej gold, gorby, gorebagg, time travelgorebagg

As far back as humans walked the Earth, there were games, many of which were played on a field that had been drawn in with a sharpened stick, or boundaried by rocks, and in the case of Kalah and similar “pocket” games, the landing places were scooped out of the dirt.

Pieces for those early “board” or “flat” games were typically made of wood, stones, shells and in fact anything that was traded as money, including beads. Yes, beads were used as game pieces, and I have a large collection of ancient board game pieces that show how broad the variation could be.

Historians today weren’t THERE, actually THERE, in the Old West, when people had nothing to do but play checkers after the daily chores were done. Who had checker pieces? But everyone carried SOME cash — you had to. Credit cards didn’t exist back then, and hardly did money.

Cowboys would bet penny against penny. Of course, it had to be “even money”, no such thing as nickels against pennies, unless one of the players was a pro gambler with some sort of edge that gave him the long-term win.

So who owns which penny?

The solution is so simple and so obvious that it was thought of thousands and thousands of years ago. Continue reading →

Quantum Coin Magic

May 7, 2016Uncategorizedcabala, cent, coin, coin magic, coinology, coins, ejgold, formula, gorby, gorebagg, kabala, kabbalah, lincoln cent, magical, numismatics, pennies, pennygorebagg

Take an “ordinary” penny and put it into a high-energy static electrical field, encapsulate it and surround it with a permeable foamy material, and you have the start of an improvised magical weapon, which can be set up and activated with a Cloud Chamber or any imbuing device.

Let me give you an example… Continue reading →

The Zen of Checkers

May 6, 2016Uncategorizedbackgammon, board game, checker, checkers, chess, ejgold, gorby, gorebagg, parcheesi, table game, tic tac toe, zengorebagg

Checkers was for many years known as “draughts”, and was played actively and daily by Roman soldiers, of course for money, and the practice has continued right up to the present day, as you’ll see around any cracker barrel or its equivalent, in any small town, anywhere on the planet and beyond.

Roman soldiers had little to do other than road-building, and eagerly sought exciting ways to pass the little leisure time they had to themselves, and every game they played involved money, even hopscotch, where the purse was placed on the chalked or stick-inscribed game layout.

Chess was played by the sons of rulers, to teach elements of strategy and defense, and Tic-Tac-Toe was a murderous game where you could lose your shirt quicker than a five-card stud player can lose theirs.

Many games are considered stress-busters, and backgammon is probably the best-known relaxation board game ever invented, although kalah and checkers might be just as popular. Continue reading →

dreaming & astral voyaging

May 6, 2016Uncategorizedastral, dream, dreaming, dreams, ejgold, gorby, gorebagg, travel, voyaginggorebagg

Kathleen's focus is good, yes? — Kathleen’s focus is good, yes?

I’ve been reading Koyote’s new book on dreaming and astral voyaging. Dreaming is a great key to astral voyaging, soul questing and skywalking in general. When you’re dreaming, the body is asleep, passive and largely motor-reflexive, but the attention is still active, passing from one reality set to another, which opens the door to astral travel.

The body has reactions to astral travel, and it’s best to keep it in a relaxed and passive state, so it won’t interfere with the process. There is a connection between your spirit and your body, which is eternal and is present during the body’s entire lifetime, and it is that connection which pulls you back when there is a disturbance near the body or the body is uncomfortable or distressed.

Dreaming is the Great Key, and Koyote’s lessons in flying will take you there. I recommend this book highly, and will suggest it to anyone who asks me a question on the subject — his answers and mine will be the same.

Thank you, Koyote, for your well-written and well-conceived contribution to the Great Work.

See You At The Top!!!

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Character Class Rundown for the GODD Engine

May 1, 2016Uncategorizedautofire, blueline, bombs, clip size, damage, ejgold, fart, fartbomb, game development, godd, gorby, gorebagg, hit points, hits, incantation, magic, map, moveact, resurrection, rocket launcher, spells, tools, weaponsgorebagg

laugh your ass off playing fartbomb, the latest wild and crazy game from goddgames. — laugh your ass off playing fartbomb, the result of years of gorbyscience.

OSELCHAR controls the size and appearance of the Avatar, plus the speed of movement on X, Y & Z vectors, the height and width of the actual object, the weight — more properly, the mass, which is independent of gravity as a relative measure — the rate of turn, and a whole lot more character detail.

The OSELCHAR (Object Select Character) can be triggered by any TAG issued by a variety of possible contact points, such as an OTAGSW, WTAGSW or RTAGSW and more triggering agents abound.

The OSELCHAR can bring about many changes in the character. We can upgrade armor, weapons, hats, you name it, but each upgrade requires a lot of hidden behind-the-scenes programming. Continue reading →

Brains in Giant Glassite Domes as Helpers

April 8, 2016Uncategorizedcontact, crystal, dome, ej gold, glassite domes, gorby, gorebagg, healing, quartzgorebagg

Open up the channels with this Angelic Healing Contact Glassite Dome.

ANGELIC HEALING CONTACT DOME — Ever think of employing a couple of Living Stones as interdimensional contact helpers? Care & Feeding are minimal and the rewards are great and lasting. Here’s a partial list of Angelic Contact Living Stones in Glassite Domes, starting with the one pictured above, the Angelic HEALING Contact Dome, which features black tourmaline and tuned frequency Atlantean Sigil Waveform, plus the pass-through knob glassite dome on a router-grooved solid hardwood walnut base, for $450.00. Continue reading →

CREATE-A-STATE Crystal Emotional Controller

April 7, 2016Uncategorizedangry, create a state, crystal, depressed, e.j. gold, ej gold, emotion, emotional controller, emotional upset, gorby, gorebagg, happiness, joy, lonely, misery, negative state, rage, relaxation, sad, state, stress, uproar, upsetgorebagg

Neg2Pos EMOCON emotional controller. — Neg2Pos EMOCON emotional controller uses special crystals & spirals.

Ever wonder how an actor creates the emotional state of the character onstage or onscreen? Watch Gene Wilder going slowly crazy nuts and you’ll be amazed. Observe the easy emotional facility of a Jonathan Winters or Robin Williams. It’s not easy to learn, and it takes years and years of intense practice to MASTER, starting with SOME ACTUAL INNATE TALENT, add into the mix a great acting teacher and tons of luck & opportunity.

But what about the non-actor? Is it possible to learn how to create a specific emotional state in yourself, such as “Joy” or “Happiness”??? If so, is it illegal, immoral or fattening? Continue reading →

A Brief History of Gold

April 5, 2016Uncategorizedart, art history, art shows, ej gold, exhibits, galleries, gallery, gold's art history, gorby, gorebagg, historygorebagg

Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Grass Valley, Ca. Performance, 2016. — Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center onstage with E.J. Gold JazzArt, 2016.

The list is long, but I’ll give you a brief history of my art exhibits over the years. I’ve left out hundreds of shows with the same galleries to avoid a boring list. I seem to have anywhere from five to fifteen shows a year every year, with the exception of my “vacation times”, short intervals between painting and sculpting and music and theater and dance and ceramic arts, paper arts, you know — exploration and application. I know you’ll want this for your eBay and other art listings, so here’s the SHORT list — the whole list can be found in the Linda Corriveau photobiography, “More Color, Less Soul”. Continue reading →