YINSH with Carissa

While I made dinner, John and Carissa played a couple games of YINSH. Carissa trounced him twice. well to be fair in game one John thought that the point of the game was to just get more pieces of your color on the board a la Othello for about half the game).

Using the rule of the schoolyard, I got to play winners. I still felt like I was kind of moving pieces around at random, but I was occasionally able to pick out a good move (which is vastly different from being able to set one up of course).

Carissa beat me with a move I didn't even see until she made it. So much of this game is just being able to look at the board and understand it. A good chess player can look at a board setup and see that there is an "obvious" checkmate 3 or 4 moves away. I imagine something similar is possible in YINSH, but I'm guessing it takes a while to get there.

Scores:
Carissa - 3
Chris - 2

Game time: 20 minutes