Hello everyone!
As some of you know, I like board games and I have dedicated special attention to Chess. Then I decided to become a Draughts player instead and liked it much better, but I still practice both of them in my continued attempts to become a good player.
It turns out that I am a bad player in either Chess or Draughts, yeah, really bad...
However, my Fantasy storyteller imagination has started to create theories about background stories for both games, and the idea of this thread is to organize the stories and share them here.
Chess - a background story by Sheilawisz
The Kingdoms White and Black are neighbors, usually keeping good relations with each other. The problem came when both Kings decided to take their entire Court and Guards on vacation at the same time, without realizing the inconvenience that this would cause.
Their favorite vacational resort is a famous place called Cheeseland, everybody wants to go there... The only way to reach this place is to cross the Board, but only one Team can cross once every month and then it closes.
The White King and the Black King booked their visit to the Board at the same day because of an administrative error from the Cheeseland staff. The only way to decide who gets to cross to Cheeseland is to fight, because everybody wants that special vacation really bad!
The loser team will be sent back home and they will have to wait thirty days for their crossing.
1- The Kings: Both White and Black monarchs were really looking forward to party time, so they began drinking even before arriving at the Board. This explains why the Kings are confused and can only move one square every turn. They should be allowed some time to sober up, but instead they give orders to begin the fight immediately.
2- The Queens: It's common for the Queens of these lands to suffer constant headaches because of the loud castle parties, so they began to take an experimental drug a few weeks before the travel. The mysterious drug did not solve the headaches and bad humor, but it managed to give both of them fighting superpowers explaining why they are the strongest in the battle.
3- The Rooks: Why is it that a Castle tower can move faster than a Knight with a horse? The answer is that there are Witches inhabiting nearby the Board, and they put a spell on the rocky buildings so they become alive by dark and inexplicable reasons.
4- The Pawns: They are just Castle guards hoping to party at Cheeseland for weeks. When they promote, their transformations are caused by the same mysterious Witches mentioned before. The Kings are not really disturbed by the prospect of having multiple clones of the original Queen, but it's weird.
5- The Knights: They are part of the Court strictly as bodyguards, but when they cross they will be allowed to party freely like everyone else. Plus, the famous cheese of Cheeseland is very nutritious and good for their horses.
6- The Bishops: They are there to make sure that the Kings do not overindulge in the parties, and to tell the Queens to take their experimental drug every day.
There you have it! That's my own background story for the game of Chess. I am preparing another story for Draughts, which is coming tomorrow if everything goes alright.
What do you think?
As some of you know, I like board games and I have dedicated special attention to Chess. Then I decided to become a Draughts player instead and liked it much better, but I still practice both of them in my continued attempts to become a good player.
It turns out that I am a bad player in either Chess or Draughts, yeah, really bad...
However, my Fantasy storyteller imagination has started to create theories about background stories for both games, and the idea of this thread is to organize the stories and share them here.
Chess - a background story by Sheilawisz
The Kingdoms White and Black are neighbors, usually keeping good relations with each other. The problem came when both Kings decided to take their entire Court and Guards on vacation at the same time, without realizing the inconvenience that this would cause.
Their favorite vacational resort is a famous place called Cheeseland, everybody wants to go there... The only way to reach this place is to cross the Board, but only one Team can cross once every month and then it closes.
The White King and the Black King booked their visit to the Board at the same day because of an administrative error from the Cheeseland staff. The only way to decide who gets to cross to Cheeseland is to fight, because everybody wants that special vacation really bad!
The loser team will be sent back home and they will have to wait thirty days for their crossing.
1- The Kings: Both White and Black monarchs were really looking forward to party time, so they began drinking even before arriving at the Board. This explains why the Kings are confused and can only move one square every turn. They should be allowed some time to sober up, but instead they give orders to begin the fight immediately.
2- The Queens: It's common for the Queens of these lands to suffer constant headaches because of the loud castle parties, so they began to take an experimental drug a few weeks before the travel. The mysterious drug did not solve the headaches and bad humor, but it managed to give both of them fighting superpowers explaining why they are the strongest in the battle.
3- The Rooks: Why is it that a Castle tower can move faster than a Knight with a horse? The answer is that there are Witches inhabiting nearby the Board, and they put a spell on the rocky buildings so they become alive by dark and inexplicable reasons.
4- The Pawns: They are just Castle guards hoping to party at Cheeseland for weeks. When they promote, their transformations are caused by the same mysterious Witches mentioned before. The Kings are not really disturbed by the prospect of having multiple clones of the original Queen, but it's weird.
5- The Knights: They are part of the Court strictly as bodyguards, but when they cross they will be allowed to party freely like everyone else. Plus, the famous cheese of Cheeseland is very nutritious and good for their horses.
6- The Bishops: They are there to make sure that the Kings do not overindulge in the parties, and to tell the Queens to take their experimental drug every day.
There you have it! That's my own background story for the game of Chess. I am preparing another story for Draughts, which is coming tomorrow if everything goes alright.
What do you think?
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