Chess

There is nothing in the world that can replace good quality sister time. I spent the weekend at home visiting my family and Danny, and it was really nice. One of my biggest highlights was playing chess with Becca.

Dad taught us to play when we were really little, and while it was cool at the time to be a cultured six year old who could play chess, the downside is that, due to infrequent practice, our strategies and tactics have stayed at a very childish level. Here is a basic outline of such: Move your pieces and see what happens, eliminate as many pieces as you can to simplify the board, (if they are important pieces, props to you,) get a few pawns knighted while you're at it, and eventually checkmate the king with your two rooks on the otherwise empty two back rows.

The first game we made a stab at intelligent playing. The second we reverted to more juvenille tactics...