X-Treme Chess Synchronicity

Cidu Bill on Feb 8th 2010

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(Spotted by Sal Biondo)

Filed in Bill Amend, Bill Bickel, Close to Home, John McPherson, chess, comic strips, comics, humor, synchronicity | 7 responses so far

7 Responses to “X-Treme Chess Synchronicity”

  1. Heather D Feb 8th 2010 at 11:39 am 1

    Heh, I was going to send this in. Glad Sal beat me to it. :)

  2. furrykef Feb 8th 2010 at 12:29 pm 2

    That chess board sure has a lot of squares on it. (A standard board is only 8×8.)

  3. Heather D Feb 8th 2010 at 12:35 pm 3

    Ha…. it’s 9×12…. I hadn’t even noticed that… and it looks like there are three white rooks on the board…

  4. Karen Feb 8th 2010 at 01:22 pm 4

    I love the FoxTrot one. My husband, son and I all play Lord of the Rings online, which is basically a virtual role playing game (the computer does all the dice rolling for you). I don’t understand most of the numbers, but I have a whale of a time, and I actually understood the line “You didn’t train that spell, remember?”

  5. ljdarten Feb 9th 2010 at 08:35 am 5

    haven’t played a whole lot of “traditional” role playing, but I would love to play the foxtrot chess.

  6. Powers Feb 9th 2010 at 09:45 am 6

    Jason and Marcus probably don’t know this, but they’ve essentially retro-engineered wargaming, the predecessor to today’s modern roleplaying games. In fact, the only significant difference seems to be that they’re using chess pieces and an 8×8 board instead of miniatures and a terrain map. Geeks have been wargaming since the 60s.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wargaming

    So, ljdarten, if that sounds like fun, you might want to look into it.

  7. ljdarten Feb 9th 2010 at 10:05 am 7

    I’m aware of wargaming but the name didn’t come to me, and I thought it was actually an offshoot of d&d style roleplaying. My knowledge in the area is sketchy though, I did very little actual gaming, but watched my brother and his friends play all the time.

    I just thought mixing the game play style of it with the game play of chess sounds intriguing; not just using the pieces.

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