{"id":21163,"date":"2008-08-20T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/08\/20\/when-somebody-says-a-game-is-like-chess-it-is-usually-completely-unlike-chess\/"},"modified":"2008-08-20T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2008-08-20T10:00:01","slug":"when-somebody-says-a-game-is-like-chess-it-is-usually-completely-unlike-chess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20080820-01\/?p=21163","title":{"rendered":"When somebody says a game is like chess, it is usually completely unlike chess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chess has become elevated to the gold standard of board games. Everybody wishes their game had the cultural gravity of chess, a game whose mere mention elevates you to the category of <i>deep thinker<\/i> and <i>profound strategist<\/i>. (We&#8217;ll set aside the scrawny glasses-wearing nerd part for now.)<\/p>\n<p> I&#8217;ve learned that when somebody says a game is like chess, it&#8217;s pretty much guaranteed that the game in fact bears no resemblance to chess whatsoever. <\/p>\n<p> I came to this realization when somebody pulled out a game with a strange-looking board with what looked like plastic volcanoes glued to the surface, catwalks, and a lazy susan. Each player was represented by a token, set in its respective starting position. I asked, &#8220;Hey, what&#8217;s this game?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> The person replied, &#8220;It&#8217;s a lot like chess. First you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stern.de\/em2008\/fotostrecken\/allgemein\/:Fu%DFballer-Spr%FCche-Wie-Schach-W%FCrfel\/622828.html?cp=23\"> roll the dice<\/a>&#8230;&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/germany\/0,1518,558638-3,00.html\">Translation from the German<\/a> in that link above, for those who need some help.) <\/p>\n<p> [Raymond is currently away; this message was pre-recorded.] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chess has become elevated to the gold standard of board games. Everybody wishes their game had the cultural gravity of chess, a game whose mere mention elevates you to the category of deep thinker and profound strategist. (We&#8217;ll set aside the scrawny glasses-wearing nerd part for now.) I&#8217;ve learned that when somebody says a game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-21163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Chess has become elevated to the gold standard of board games. Everybody wishes their game had the cultural gravity of chess, a game whose mere mention elevates you to the category of deep thinker and profound strategist. (We&#8217;ll set aside the scrawny glasses-wearing nerd part for now.) I&#8217;ve learned that when somebody says a game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}