The game sits up front in the window of San Francisco's Alfred Dunhill smoke shop. It seems to be chess: the board (checkered) is unmistakable. The pieces are something else again. This is clearly no ordinary chess set; the rules are the same, but the name of the game is "Hippies v. the Establishment."
On the hippies' side, little multicolored youths (a strand of beads for each) represent pawns. The rooks are Volkswagen buses (one with a peace symbol, an American flag and "Love" painted on the side); the knights wear sunglasses, beads, flowers, and robes inscribed with the slogan "Make...
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