Wiki note: There are at least five different result texts for this action. These depend on unknown qualities but are not randomised.
Sacrifices must be made
Only one thing matters in this game: victory. If you must sacrifice your rook in order to press your advantage, then they will be slain. Your reaction will be inscrutable – as you next offer up your queen.
A crusade in sixty-four squares
You know the rules. You're familiar with elementary strategy, perhaps even some more nuanced concepts. You simply need to study the board with sufficient focus.
The beginning of understanding
You know the rules. You're familiar with elementary strategy, perhaps even some more nuanced concepts. You simply need to study the board with sufficient focus.
Careful study
There is a logic to chess. Every move has an ideal response. You only need consider your opponent's decisions and the permutations of possible moves that could follow and you will find the route to topple their king.
Unpublished gambits
Your mind contains vast troves of chess stratagems – enough to fill reams of paper, a whole series of books. It is from this that you draw your strategy, and it is this that means you shall win.
Your chess match with [Winner] continues. Unfortunately, your attempts to sculpt the game have been as successful as a mason cutting marble with their hands. Your opponent got the better of you.
Wiki note: There are at least three different result texts for this action. These depend on unknown qualities but are not randomised.
Patterned on the stars
Images of a long absent night inspire you. The white stars in the black sky motivate you to form your own constellations on the board. […]. As long as your opponent doesn't understand your approach, the assault could be devastating.
A burgeoning aesthetic
You'll try ruthless assaults, coy defences, moves made in a flash of inspiration. Your opponent will be confounded.
Broken traditions
The rules of the chessboard are plain, but you can use them unexpectedly, force them to serve your stratagems. Your retreats advance your presence on the board; your advancements are defensive manoeuvres – designed to protect your King.
Your chess match with [Winner] continues. Were the opposing chessmen considered Constables and Criminals, your King would be closer to imprisonment after this skirmish.
Your chess match with [Loser] continues. While the specifics of a chess game are often forgotten, you'll fondly remember the look on your opponent's face when they realised how completely you'd compromised their position.
Your chess match with [Winner] continues. The details of most games are forgotten; but given how damning your opponents last gambit was for your defences, you may remember it for some time. At the very least, you'll remember their smile.
Your chess match with [Winner] continues. It's hard to describe the last few moves in detail; but all that one needs to understand is that it went rather badly for you.
Your chess match with [Loser] continues. It seems the music got the better of them. While they swayed to the tune, you methodically cleared their pieces from the board.
Your chess match with [Winner] continues. Unfortunately, you were overwhelmed by the tune. You're not quite sure how it happened, but your opponent has done well these past few turns.
You've gained 1 x Chess: The Progress of your Match
