ISTR beating MHF at chess-clock once. He was quite drunk at the time (well, we both were, I think you have to be to even think of playing chess-clock).
What's chess-clock? Google shows up a lot of links about actual chess clocks, but nothing obvious about any game of that name.
JOOI, why have both responses so far explicitly suggested games I might be able to beat MHF at? Anyone would think I had a personal vendetta against him instead of vaguely wishing I played something better than someone :-)
It's the same as playing chess against a chess clock, but without the chess: each player just flips the switch from time to time, and the first person to run out loses.
JOOI, why have both responses so far explicitly suggested games I might be able to beat MHF at? Anyone would think I had a personal vendetta against him instead of vaguely wishing I played something better than someone :-)
In that case the answer is easy - pick an obscure game, study it, pick someone at random from the street who knows nothing about the game and beat them. But you don't really want to do that - you want to beat someone who's can play the game - which is where MHF comes in, because (like me, but I'm not in Cambridge) he's very good at learning the rules and picking up the strategy for games. So for this game that noone's heard of that you want to win at, he'll be a good opponent.
Besides, in this case, it's because MHF is the person who taught me philosopher's football, and thus would be the logical person to challenge.
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JOOI, why have both responses so far explicitly suggested games I might be able to beat MHF at? Anyone would think I had a personal vendetta against him instead of vaguely wishing I played something better than someone :-)
In that case the answer is easy - pick an obscure game, study it, pick someone at random from the street who knows nothing about the game and beat them. But you don't really want to do that - you want to beat someone who's can play the game - which is where MHF comes in, because (like me, but I'm not in Cambridge) he's very good at learning the rules and picking up the strategy for games. So for this game that noone's heard of that you want to win at, he'll be a good opponent.
Besides, in this case, it's because MHF is the person who taught me philosopher's football, and thus would be the logical person to challenge.