If you have the capabilities, watch this:

Look! I’m in a trailer!

I’m in a show called Human Combat Chess with Six Elements Theatre. If you’ve ever been to a Ren Faire, you may have seen this. A giant chess board with people used as pieces. When two pieces are on the same square, instead of the new piece taking the square automatically, the two people fight for the square.

Six Elements has take the concept and modernized it. In this show, I’m part of a Human Combat Chess team (GO CORSAIRS) in a Human Combat Chess sporting league, playing for the title of regional champion. It’s a super fun and intense show. We open tonight, and I highly recommend it.

Picture from last year- I’m on the end in black!

In honor of our opening show tonight, your Fuck Off Friday includes chess games. There are a great number of chess games on the internet. I want to highlight a couple of the… fightier ones. Cause fighting!

First, there’s Ultimate Chess, which makes it sound way more badass than it really is. But it’s still a fun little game, with cartoon characters that kill each other in adorable ways. Fighting doesn’t determine who controls the square, so it plays just like normal chess. But the cartoons are pretty cute, with adorable blood splatters.

There’s spy chess, where you only have a few pieces, but there are items on the board that change play. And yes, the two pieces on a square fight, but the attacker always wins.

But what I really recommend if you can is downloading this Archon emulator from way back in the day. I remember playing this game on the Commodore 64, and loving the change of the game depending on who won. It really messes with your strategy.

So go play some games, and then come out to Human Combat Chess tonight at 8pm at University Baptist Church. Because you’ve always wanted to see these games come to life. And now you can.