Blake Eskin
Blake Eskin's stories about board games have appeared on The Next Big Thing and in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and the Washington Post.
His book A Life in Pieces (W.W. Norton, 2002) began as a story for This American Life. He edits Nextbook.org, which produces a podcast about Jewish culture.
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Most Americans have never heard of Go, an ancient board game that has simpler rules than chess but such complex strategy that computers can't even beat a talented amateur.
This hour: tongue twisters, brain teasers, cheaters, and one of the worst high school football teams of all time.
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For the 2005 ShortDocs Challenge, we asked producers to submit ideas for stories about "games."
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October 20 - 22, Chicago