The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy
Where Do You Stop?
Chapter 6: The Confusing Midgame in Chinese Checkers (Diagram)
by Eric Kraft, as Peter Leroy

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  FIGURE 2: A game of Chinese Checkers among players who are ignorant, inept, or insane serves to illustrate several complex processes, including changing classes, mixing scents, and arriving at new ideas.  (A) Taking the example of changing classes only: at time x six groups of students are seated in six classrooms, studying (clockwise from top) science, English, art, shop, mathematics, and history. 

Chinese Checkers, A

(B)  At the end of period x, a bell rings and the students surge into the hallway, heading for the classrooms where their classes for period x + 1 will be held.
Chinese Checkers, B
(C)  In period x + 1, the students are again seated in the same six classrooms, studying (clockwise from top) science, English, art, shop, mathematics, and history, but they are, of course, not the same students who occupied those classrooms in period x.  Now they are commingled, confounded, and confused.
Chinese Checkers, C
 
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Where Do You Stop? is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, dialogues, settings, and businesses portrayed in it are products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. 

Copyright © 1992 by Eric Kraft.  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the author.

Where Do You Stop? was first published in hardcover by Crown Publishers, Inc., 201 East 50th Street, New York, New York 10022. Member of the Crown Publishing Group.

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The illustration at the top of the page is an adaptation of an illustration by Stewart Rouse that first appeared on the cover of the August 1931 issue of Modern Mechanics and Inventions. The boy at the controls of the aerocycle doesn’t particularly resemble Peter Leroy—except, perhaps, for the smile.

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