A QUICK WORD FROM JEFFERSON: If this page looks like your browser is broken, don't worry. It's called an RSS feed, and it's a tool that lets you take back control from the algorithms trying to control what you read. For a full explanation, check out the "About Following Me" article on my About page. Or you can cut and paste this URL here: https://creativityhacker.ca/nav/about/artifacts/2025-03-26_191111/ (Sorry, URL links aren't clickable inside RSS feeds.) https://creativityhacker.ca/tags/chess/ Recent content in Chess on Creativity Hacker Hugo en-us jeff@smithicus.com (Jefferson Smith) jeff@smithicus.com (Jefferson Smith) Sat, 07 Mar 2026 08:51:24 +0000 https://creativityhacker.ca/blogs/hearth/logs/2025-06-12_175440/ -blogs Thu, 12 Jun 2025 17:54:40 +0000jeff@smithicus.com (Jefferson Smith) https://creativityhacker.ca/blogs/hearth/logs/2025-06-12_175440/ <p>When I was a teenager, my dad and I would play slow chess. His job involved regularly rotating shift work, which meant that we often went weeks at a time where our days didn&rsquo;t really overlap. So, to stay connected, we kept a chess board in the kitchen. Every day, Dad would make a move on the board while eating after he got home, and I would make mine after school. It was a fun way to stay connected when our lives were otherwise out of sync.</p> <p>We didn&rsquo;t know it at the time, but we were also inventing what would become an important ritual between us.</p>