I love the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System. I love Baseball Stars, Final Fantasy, Tecmo Bowl, and Swords and Serpents. In fact, I play NES games way more than I do games on my Xbox 360.
It used to be that you could only emulate the NES on a PC, but some crafty developers have made it possible to emulate the NES on a Mac.
If you’re one of those folks who want to set up an NES emulator on a Mac here’s what you need to do.
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I was six-years-old when I received my first chess set. It was one of those with the cardboard chessboard and manila and black plastic pieces. I’m sure it came with a rulebook, but I doubt I read it. Perhaps I should have.
There are six pieces in chess. Each piece has its own movement restrictions. The smallest and seemingly the most worthless piece is the pawn. It can move to one unoccupied space on every move with the option to move forward two squares on its first move provided both squares are also unoccupied. It can only move forward unless it is attacking in which case it must move diagonally to capture an opponent’s piece. And, the pawn has a special shape-shifting move in which it can be promoted to any chess piece if it makes it to the eighth rank (the opponent’s back row). That’s it. Or, so I thought. Enter the en passant.
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