Photo of the Day: July 31, 2008

Who needs real game pieces when you have enough black and white rocks laying around?  Flickr user static-photo captures an intense bit of strategizing during a makeshift checkers game in Oxford, MD.  Only a few moves into the game, it's time to decide whether to play defense against the encroaching enemy or launch a full-scale offensive maneuver.  If you have the itch for some indoor 8x8-board action this weekend, head to the U.S. Chess Center on Sunday for for the Sunday quad tournament.  EXIF.