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I tend to think of Chess as more of a brain exercise rather than a game, sort of like those interlocking puzzles that seem impossible at first. How do you get that nail out of that bottle with the string around it ? My uncle used to derive great pleasure out of constantly beating me at Chess as a child and when I finally beat him one time around age 13 or so, he didn’t want to play me any more.

My introduction to wargames was my best friend and myself scooting around on our hands and knees on the living room floor, fighting WWIII using 1/72 scale Airfix plastics or Knights vs. Landsknechte with Elastolin figures, shooting them with rubber- or spring powered catapults and cannons, foil balls made from chocolate wrappers as ammunition. Kind of similar to H.G. Wells’ Little Wars I suppose.