#1112: Think Logically

[[A guy in a knit hat is sitting at a desk, typing on a laptop. Another guy is looking over his shoulder.]]

Laptop:

move

Other guy: Why’d you move your knight away?

[[The guy in the hat turns around to look at the other guy.]]

Other guy: Just think

logically

. The goal is checkmate, so you should always move pieces

toward the other player’s king.

[[A close-up on the other guy, hand to chin in thought.]]

Other guy: I guess occasionally you need to move backward, but it’d be trivial to make a list of those circumstances and–

[[The guy in the hat leans back in his chair.]]

Hat guy: Have you ever

played

chess?

Other guy: Not buch, but–

Hat guy: Wanna?

Other guy: Uh, ok.

[[The two have set up a chessboard on a stool between them, the guy in the hat playing from his chair, the other guy standing. The guy in the hat takes the first move.]]

move

Hat guy: Checkmate.

[[The other guy stares at the board.]]

[[The guy in the knit hat has turned back to his laptop, and the other guy is standing behind him, still looking at the chessboard on the stool.]]

Other guy: This game isn’t very well-designed. For starters, knights are too weak…