Did You Know? from Alan Millhone
In my latest Northwest Draughts Federation Newsletter is an article about English exhibition player William Strickland giving a draughts (checkers) exhibition in South Stockton in 1855, consisting of playing 10 boards simultaneously while blindfolded. After the games concluded he astonished everyone by repeating all of the moves played on the 10 different boards both forwards and backwards!
What an exceptionally well organized mind he must have possessed. A market trader of today could keep track of multiple trades and instantly recall previous trades, etc. The study of board games will enhance ones mind in many areas that carries over into many facets of life. Developing mental acuteness could save anyone from a serious blunder by doing something hurriedly that was not carefully planned.