So, two player board games
I like chess. I always did, it's a game that forces people to think and seeing as my winrate against people when I was small was way above average, it made sense for me to like it. I then grew into disliking it because people would take literal minutes between rounds and I'd get bored. There is still beauty to it, but at a certain point, my enjoyment of the game is running out. Now enter two player board games. Some of them are truly great. Amazing even. But they do end up in a chess situation. Let me explain a little. There are two factors of games that go into this: Information - how much information about the state of the game do individual players have Randomness - how much the state of the game can change between rounds based on a random 'whim' and how much you can mitigate that affecting you. Chess has complete information about the sate of the game and there is no randomness to speak off. All the possibilities are clearly laid out. This causes you ...