{"id":60886,"date":"2018-09-03T05:06:07","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T05:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=60886"},"modified":"2018-09-03T05:06:07","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T05:06:07","slug":"sunday-surprise-two-meanings-of-play-in-3-dimensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=60886","title":{"rendered":"Sunday surprise, two meanings of play in 3 dimensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; I&#8217;d infinitely rather play Bach than chess.. ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>Above, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kohls.com\/product\/prd-734339\/strato-chess-game.jsp\">three-dimensional chess set<\/a>. When I was up at Oxford, I had a three dimensional tic-tac-toe board, four sheets of plastic stacked vertically, each one drilled four by four, with yellow and red golf pegs to mark moves  &#8212; it was quite a thrill, especially as an escape from Old Testament studies, but I wouldn&#8217;t play it  now to save my, well, soul.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/QUO-3-d-chess-organ-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/QUO-3-d-chess-organ-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"625\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60898\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/QUO-3-d-chess-organ-1.png 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/QUO-3-d-chess-organ-1-288x300.png 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Below,<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Eq_jzx-gLBk\">Jonathan Scott<\/a><\/strong> performs his arrangement of the Finale from <strong>Saint-Saens<\/strong> &#8220;Organ&#8221; Symphony (No. 3) on the 1895 T.C. Lewis organ of Albion Church, Ashton-under-Lyne, UK.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Eq_jzx-gLBk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I would, OTOH, give my soul to be able to play the organ &#8212; a privilege denied me until I reached Grade 5 in the British system &#8212; a grade I gave up on in despair after too mant teachers forcced me to play the detested <strong>Alec Rowley<\/strong>&#8216;s exercises &#8212; with different fingerings.. Piano, feh, It took me half a lifetimes to realize there is some merit to be found therein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; I&#8217;d infinitely rather play Bach than chess.. ] . Above, a three-dimensional chess set. When I was up at Oxford, I had a three dimensional tic-tac-toe board, four sheets of plastic stacked vertically, each one drilled four by four, with yellow and red golf pegs to mark moves &#8212; it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[837,526,1577,627,529,128,946,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bach","category-charles-cameron","category-chess","category-doublequotes","category-games","category-personal","category-sunday-surprise","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60886"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60900,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60886\/revisions\/60900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}