Chess makes my head spin
I've never played chess before. So Rob lays out the board & tells me how all the pieces move and makes his first move. I sit there and see so many possible moves that my head spins. But I finally move a piece and then he moves a piece and suddenly there's all these new possible moves. It was mind-boggling. I eventually started taking out some of his pieces and sacrificing my own just to whittle down the options. And got lucky - our first game was a stale-mate, but my brain had to call it quits after that one game. Now I can play dominoes or a card game like Shanghai Rummy for hours, but I think chess is something I'm going to have to take in small doses, at least until I'm more used to it.