AO: Terminus
QiC: Chemical Bond
Pax Count: 11
Pax List: Buttercup, Chemical Bond, Credit, Gates, Gronkins, Gump, Lunch Duty, Reggie, Smalls, Tofu, Zero
FNG Count: 0
Downrange:
Warm up:
8 alarm clocks, 8 SSH, 16 Donquixotes, 24 slow squats, mosey to the meadow,
The Thang:
It was a chess themed BD with Chess trivia interspersed during the BD.
King (burpees) 8
Queen – ballerina squat 4 knuckle merkins 4 high knees 4 bird-dog 4 – 8 mins.
Bishop – Side squat walk to corners, mosey back
Horse – jump squats forward 2 times and side squat one time X 16 times.
Rook – forward run 64 steps, backward 64 steps.
Pawn (goblet squat walk or duck walk)- 16 – duck jousting.
King 👑 : The word “Checkmate” in Chess comes from the Persian phrase “Shah Mat,” which means”the King is dead.”
Queen 👸 : Initially, the Queen could only move one square at a time, diagonally. Later, she could move two squares at a time, diagonally. It wasn’t until Reconquista Spain, with its powerful queen Isabella , that the Queen became the strongest piece on the board.
Pawn ♟️: The term pawn is derived from the Old French word paon, which comes from the Medieval Latin term for “foot soldier” and is cognate with peon. In most other languages, the word for pawn is similarly derived from paon, its Latin ancestor or some other word for foot soldier.
Horse 🐎 knight: The number of possibilities of a Knight’s tour is over 122 million.
Rook: In the medieval shatranj, the rook symbolized a chariot. The Persian word rukh means “chariot”, and the corresponding piece in the original Indian version, chaturanga, has the name ratha (meaning “chariot”)
Bishop : The “bishop” is not a priest, but it stands for a war elephant – hence the piece is shaped like the elephant’s trunk, and the slash is the opening.
CoT:
Prayers for zero, gump
Naked Man Moleskin:
Duck walk jousting is fun and elicited laughter. Must repeat!! 🙂