. . .For about two years, or maybe three, I had been kicking around a modified version of Go, the ancient Chinese abstract strategy board game, in my perforated 50-plus-year-old cranium. I envisioned this new two-player game (working name Enclosure) being played on a standard 8 x 8 checkerboard (or chessboard). American checkers (or English draughts) game pieces could be the tokens, but two sets (48 total; 24 discs for each opponent) would be required. Two colors of poker chips or pennies (or other copper coins) and silver coins could work as well. Lasso up a new-game-curious pal and you’re all good to go (a solitaire variant would require a distinctly split personality). When my precocious, 11-year-old, middle-school-science-fair-award-winning nephew was dropped off by my sister on a mid-January Saturday afternoon (she and her husband wanted to go to an adults-only birthday party) at our east Charlotte (NC, USA) residence, I knew that I had someone who might be able help me initiate and. . . Read More