Erdos Had The Number First

For her birthday, I gave my wife a gaming set. It has chess,checkers, backgammon, cribbage, dominoes, and something else. It’s pretty complete.

She and I learned to play backgammon on our honeymoon (that I’ll probably write about at some point). Implicit with the gift of the gaming set was that on mondays we will spend time together playing games.

She loves board games, and I love my wife. So.
We played a round of backgammon. She won. No surprise there, part of the reason we like backgammon is that there is enough chance to it that neither one of us will get so good as to always win.

Then she talked me into playing a game of checkers. I thought “sure, checkers”. She kicked my ass. I haven’t been beaten at a game so soundly since the CIL chess tourney in 2002. She noted halfway through the game that she used to play a lot when she was younger. Yeah, I’ll say.

but it’s OK. when you’re married to someone whose as competative as you and they totally wipe the floor with you there’s only one thing to do. Switch games.