Getting something off my Chess-t

Chess sucks. It’s a bad design, a miserable experience and not the cerebral pinnacle that its fans seem to believe. Here are our Top 6 reasons why Chess is a bad game.

1. We won the battle but lost ourselves

What’s the best moment in a game of Chess? At the very start of the game before any turns are taken. After that, the game just gets worse. 

No, hear me out here. I’m not arguing that the gameplay is bad (although…) but as a player you are never in a better position than you are at the very start. With each turn and each piece taken from the board, your position weakens and your strength depletes. And that’s the case even if you’re winning. Win or lose, the time you spend playing Chess is an exercise in erosion, it’s a game of being whittled away. Unless the game is so unevenly matched that playing is pointless, losing feels crap and winning is a pyrrhic victory. Good job winning, now go pick up all your dead!

2. As deep as a good pizza

Proponents of Chess argue for its depth and infinite strategy. And sure, I’m not going to argue that there’s depth there, of course there is. But it’s not Go…

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