Word: roache
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...board is green and white floor tile, inlaid into the table. Green and white are what they use in championship play, Roach has explained. "You stare at a red and white board for four hours, and you'll go blind. I don't know why they still sell red and white boards in dime stores." His checkers are red and butterscotch, instead of red and black, because "black is nauseating...
Burroughs commenced another move. Roach said, "That's a loser. You're off your feed today...
Burroughs moved the chair back and took another tack. Two minutes and 20 seconds later, Roach said, "King me." Burroughs said, "You always do this." Roach said, "I've got seven men now, and I'll have seven when this game is over...
Burroughs went down, from start to finish, in five minutes and 20 seconds (Roach's longest game was six hours, ending in a draw). "You skinned me again," said Burroughs, rising to leave...
When the competition was gone, Double-Trouble Roach rearranged his checkers into the starting position. He sat there beneath his sign, his traffic light blinking red and yellow, his soft-drink machines coughing off and on, alone. There was no one on the road, and no one likely...