Board Games Bring the Family Together

I’m going to come clean right off the bat. That wooden chess set you see sitting on the bookshelf? It’s there for purely decorative purposes. I haven’t played the game in years, nor would I remember how without some serious prompting and time to refresh my memory. Still, I’ve come to respect the chess set from an aesthetic perspective. Everything about the set screams sophistication and charm.

Take the wood chess pieces, for example. The light and dark pieces are all carved out of wood in a visually pleasing way. There’s also the symmetry of the board, the painted squares and the presentation of the chessmen lined up all in a row that I like. When friends come over, they almost never mention the board, but I often catch them staring at it. Hopefully nobody challenges me to a game. I’m not sure I could fake it very well.

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