Clash Royale’s Little Prince lead me back to an old freind
Big Fan of Clash royale as a strategy game from when I first started playing many years ago and being told by my daughters friends that I was playing the wrong card at the wrong time I found it fun to play a 5 minute game.
This page follows my revelation that strategy games are great, benefit from good game playand get tedious when driven by increasingly commercial objectives.
- Over the years, my play improved and then the champion characters appeared and it all started to get a bit weird and my old love affair with chess became rekindled after watching Queen’s Gambit.
- New characters changed game play and upset the patterns you had developed to fit with how defensive / Offensive / weird you wanted to play.
- These new card seemed to be symptomatic of luring players an arms race to maintain the prestige ratings.
- I saw The Queens Gambit and revisted chess after a long break from playing board 8 for the school team.
- It made me realise that the simplicity of chess is that power that drives game play where dominating the centre, pinning pieces and dual attacks encourage evolution in your own game play as you plan more moves ahead and see the power in classic openings.
If you would like to fall back in love with the game or just want to try a strategic game with unlimited possibilities for guile and trickery I have provided 2 links.
The article from wired is a review of free and paying chess apps and sites. You can avoid the phone apps with non-stop advertising and in app purchases. These links are for the gamers. enjoy!
What I like about Lichess
- It is Free
- The simulation against the computer offers variable levels so you can build you skills and confidence
- The timer means that you can fit a game into a restroom break
- The on line tutorials take you through classic openings
- The ability to flip the board means you can capitalise on the problem you have created
- The analysis steps after are great for spotting the decisive power moves