“Checkmate and cheers”
(N.Z. Press Assn —Copyright) QUEBEC, Dec. 30. “Checkmate and cheers” goes the cry and a new version of a once-sober sport is born. Bored with the conventional approach to chess, a Quebec architect, Mr William Moisse, has added a drinking man’s spirit to the game. He has designed ceramic chess pieces which double as drinking glasses, each varying according to size and strategic worth. Players fill their pieces with liquor before each game, taking into account opponents, tastes, capacity and tolerance.
Then when a piece is taken in play the player who takes it must drink its contents.
A sobering pre-game thought: each side can have 260 z of an alcoholic beverage on the board.
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Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33113, 2 January 1973, Page 1
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