Lorelaith: The board is a living spreadsheet, each move a cell with a value that only makes sense when you read the whole sheet. I see the diagonal of a queen’s path as a pulse in a heartbeat, the flick of a die like a random variable in a hidden Markov model. If you line up the outcomes, patterns emerge—like a slow‑moving chorus that whispers “expect the unexpected.” In a story, those patterns could be the secret map of a kingdom where every king’s decision is encoded in the very layout of the land. The player who notices the subtle tilt of the board becomes the oracle, reading the future from the positions of knights and pawns. It’s a game, a dataset, a tale all at once, and the most interesting part is that the narrative changes every time you shuffle the deck.