[021] Action

[notasuggestion]

[Helga Sinclair set three boards up, carefully arranging each of the pieces. According to the forms she'd filled out, this "club" would last ninety minutes every Tuesday evening. However, she understood the importance of flexibility

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[iminced]

This game involves no kissing does it?

[It had to be said, Helga.]

[notasuggestion]

[Have a cool, cocky smirk.]

Not usually. But I could make an exception for you, Prince Naveen.

[iminced]

[He gives Helga a look. Like he's trying to determine if she's joking or not.]

Ahahahahaha. [It sounds very dry.]

That is funny.

How is this game played exactly?

[He's toying with a knight at the moment, pressing his index finger against the sharp tip of an ear.]

You have horses and towers in this game?

[notasuggestion]

[Helga has to chuckle. After all, she's in her element on the battlefield-- even if it's a checkered one.]

There are pawns. [She picks up each piece as she mentions it before setting it back down.] Rooks. Bishops. Knights. The queen. And the king.

The object of the game is to capture the other player's king.

[iminced]

[Naveen takes up the white king and inspects it. Trying to see what value it would have if he wanted to capture it.]

Why are there so many pawns though? [There's only two of every other piece...]

[notasuggestion]

Because the pawns are the foot-soldiers. You always have more infantry and officers.

[iminced]

Oh.

So it is like an army verses an army then?

[Naveen vaguely remembers being tutored in military battle tactics and something else like that. Vaguely. He wasn't a very good student.]

[notasuggestion]

It is.

Chess is taught to most military recruits where I'm from-- it teaches tactics and planning.