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Summary: Learn tips on how to master the game of 'Give and Take' in this free online video clip on board games.
Christopher Elis is the inventor of "Give and Take", a very popular chess-like game which is played in parks throughout New York City, and especially in New York's Union Square Park. ...read more
"On behalf of Expert Village, my name is Christopher Elis, and I want to teach you how to play my game called "Give and Take." Alright, if you're going to play this game with some degree of expertise, you have to master the opening variations, you have to master the middle game, you have to master the end game, which is just about the most important part of the game, and then you have to master what I call, "special effects." Now, the opening variations are many and different. I'll show you a couple of them that you may appreciate. I'll start with the difficult openings first, and then we'll come down to the easy openings. One of the most difficult openings is this one: One, two, three, if black moves here, then black loses the game. Here's how it's done: white sacrifices these two pieces and gives black the king, and then he takes one more sacrifice, and he takes the king back by sacrificing this piece, black must take and that's just about how it starts, and it never ends."