Jul

29

Wiswell’s Way: A Life on the Squares and Between the Lines
By Tom Wiswell (with a little help from Bo Keely and AI)

Chapter One: Brooklyn Beginnings

It all began at the corner of Atlantic and Nostrand, Brooklyn, 1917. A working-class neighborhood, a Jewish family, and a boy who would grow up to be, among other odd things, a world checker champion. Yes—checkers, the game you played at your grandfather’s kitchen table, which I turned into a lifelong study, an art form, and eventually, a philosophy.

I wasn’t born into greatness or madness. Just into a world that still had trolleys clanking down the street and fathers who worked with their hands. Mine owned a small shop and taught me the first lessons of trade, thrift, and tact. My mother taught me patience. The combination, it turned out, is what you need to master any board game—and life itself.

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