The Video Game That Rewrites the 1500-Year-Old Rules of Chess

Chess is quite a game. The game. Chess is so old and so esteemed it’s often used as a point of legitimacy for other things. If you have a lengthy discussion about Street Fighter, critical or not, you’ve started a countdown to an inevitable “like chess” comparison. It’s easy to pick up and yet so hard to master that becoming the best at it gets you called a prodigy. It’s dramatic, it’s intensive, and largely seen as balanced. “Why fix what isn’t broken?” says two percent of the world’s coffee mugs. ...



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