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Loved this game when I was younger and have Two versions of the Smess game
one that my Relitive gave me when he got bored with it and one I found at

a Yard Sale a few years back.  Sad to say that no one I hang with knows 
how to play the game or wants to learn.  I was wondering if there is a 
computer version of this game somewhere out there?  This is the Type of 
Computer Chess that would go great with some Computer Graphics.  Thanks
for
Having this Site did not know anyone else rememberd the game.

Wow!   I had 'Take the Brain' as a kid (OK .. still got it sans box)& no
one I've ever chatted to knew what it was!  Great to find out it's US
name.
Amazin'!

Although the copyright on the Smess board belongs to Reuben Klamer, David
Pritchard attributed the invention of the game to Perry Grant. I just got
confirmation that the inventor of Smess is Perry Grant, not Reuben Klamer.
Unfortunately, that confirmation came in Perry Grant's obituary. He died
just a year ago at age 80. Here is a link:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117915389?categoryid=25&cs=1

Wow!

When I did a Google Search to see if I could learn more about my 28 year
old copy of All the Kings Men, for a blog post I am planning, I was
stunned at what I found.

This place, and the history, and links it provides.

I have not had anyone to play against in more than 15 years, but I have
held on to this, one of my favorite games ever!

http://www.madmacedonian.com

Smess for android available for free on google play here

I learned that there was a german edition of this game published in 1972 by Parker under the title "Schach dem Schlaukopf". The pieces are Dummkopf (Ninny), Schlitzohr (Numskull), and Schlaukopf (Brain).

Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schach_dem_Schlaukopf

In spite of the light-hearted appearance of Smess, the use of pointers on cells to determine directions that a piece can move was an interesting feature introduced to the chess variants world by this game.

After playing over a handful of games, I'd tentatively value a Ninny piece as 1 and a Numskull as 2, with a Brain having the fighting value of a Ninny (though the loss of a Brain means the loss of the game).

Smess

But 5 & Ninny can promotes to Brain.

This isn't showing up well on any browser or OS I've seen it on. On my iPad, I see the arrowed board both above and below the blank 7x8 board with the pieces, and the one above is tiled. On Android and Windows, the tiled board is not appearing at the top, but the pieces are still not appearing on the same board as the arrows.

The comment contains the board image twice, the second time as a plain image below the Diagram (which works), the first time as background-image to the <table> element that contains the board squares as cells. The background of these cells is then set to transparent.

For some reason this does not work anymore. The I.D. on the Eurasian Chess page also lost its background, and I am sure this worked before. Is there some global style definition now that gives <tr> elements a background color? These are the only elements between the <td> and the <table>. A background color of the table would be displayed behind the background-image.

For some reason this does not work anymore. The I.D. on the Eurasian Chess page also lost its background, and I am sure this worked before. Is there some global style definition now that gives elements a background color?

Looking at it with Web Developer Tools in Firefox, I see that TABLE TR has the background-color value of var(--nav-bgcolor), and when I turn it off, the background image shows up. With that in mind, I added this to the Eurasian Chess page, and that fixed it:

<STYLE>
TABLE#board0 TR {background-color: inherit;}
</STYLE>

Would it be a good idea to add this to global.css?