Enjoy this writing, just discovered your Substack through that comment I replied to.
One thing I'll say: the theme to chess isn't so "vestigial" to those of us who learned to play the game through Battle Chess on MS-DOS! To this day I still think of my pawns as an army of spearmen and my rook as some sort of rock monster. As someone who, like you, prefers strong themes in board games, it makes chess more fun for me.
Enjoy this writing, just discovered your Substack through that comment I replied to.
One thing I'll say: the theme to chess isn't so "vestigial" to those of us who learned to play the game through Battle Chess on MS-DOS! To this day I still think of my pawns as an army of spearmen and my rook as some sort of rock monster. As someone who, like you, prefers strong themes in board games, it makes chess more fun for me.
I’m glad you enjoyed it and thanks so much for writing. Keep reading and hopefully you’ll discover some games you’d like.
Ben just gave me abalone, which I played with you earlier this year. Live the history of these games!
Really nice, Mr. Barry! 👍👍👍