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GEELONG: Joey Didulica’s new ball game

“My knight’s got your knight,” says young Nikolas, mustering chess pieces with alarming speed on his side of the table.

Dad Joey Didulica looks on with a grin that suggests I’m not the first grown-up to cop a whupping from this precocious but polite four-year-old.

Chess is not the only grey-matter exercise you’ll find in the Smythe Street café Koffie Haus, on Geelong’s waterfront. It’s very European that way and, as it’s in a university precinct, just two doors from Deakin, what you might expect.

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