It's more convenient in space to have them as electronic files. You can only bring so much with you in a ship, after all.
[ a rather thoughtful tone, ] In general, the nostalgia for books makes it difficult for people to move them, though I can see the appeal for it. My family has a library and all.
[ vidar is making a cheat sheet for her. it'll be a list of how the pieces move, so she'll have something to refer to when they play, as well as a drawing of the board enumerated with letters and numbers. as he writes, he'll answer her question with a thoughtful hum. ]
Heroes, huh. I remember a time when they used to interest me.
But you and your friend are rather young, and that's fine.
The king is the weakest piece in the beginning of the game. You don't need to capture the king to end the game; the threat of capture is enough, and the objective of chess is for you to remove that threat and deal with it. If you can't, it's the end of the game. You can't make any moves on the board that will threaten the king.
Close to the end of the game, when all of the pieces on the board that can threaten the king have been mostly eliminated, the king can be used as support and attack in order to escape the threat of capture. Or you can force your opponent into a stalemate, if you're good enough; the choice is yours.
[ and having finished the cheat sheet, he gives it back to her. ] Here you go.
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[ a rather thoughtful tone, ] In general, the nostalgia for books makes it difficult for people to move them, though I can see the appeal for it. My family has a library and all.
[ vidar is making a cheat sheet for her. it'll be a list of how the pieces move, so she'll have something to refer to when they play, as well as a drawing of the board enumerated with letters and numbers. as he writes, he'll answer her question with a thoughtful hum. ]
Heroes, huh. I remember a time when they used to interest me.
But you and your friend are rather young, and that's fine.
The king is the weakest piece in the beginning of the game. You don't need to capture the king to end the game; the threat of capture is enough, and the objective of chess is for you to remove that threat and deal with it. If you can't, it's the end of the game. You can't make any moves on the board that will threaten the king.
Close to the end of the game, when all of the pieces on the board that can threaten the king have been mostly eliminated, the king can be used as support and attack in order to escape the threat of capture. Or you can force your opponent into a stalemate, if you're good enough; the choice is yours.
[ and having finished the cheat sheet, he gives it back to her. ] Here you go.