Chess

Thanks Yandosan,
"In the old days," when I used to go to Mexico, it seemed like you could always find a board set up some place with somebody waiting for a game. One of my fondest memories is of an old guy, Enrique, who opened his Dulceria in Puerto Morelos everyday at 4 by first setting up a chessboard on one of his sidewalk tables. We played every day I was there. Often other folks would gather around. Playing chess, drinking coffee, smoking his roll your own tobacco cigarettes. Me practicing my Spanish and him his English. Great fun. I went back the next year because of him and the 3rd year as well, but he had passed on (hit by a bus in Merdida). Yes, I play online but there is something special about an over the board game.