Chesh reinvents chess every time you play

When I was a kid learning to play chess, I had one big question that never had a good answer: “why?” Why does the horse guy move in an L shape? Don’t horses normally like to move forward? And why can buildings move all the way across the board?

Despite all its structure, chess has no obvious logic behind the movement of its pieces. You can’t work it out on your own. Memorization is step one, but once you know how the pieces move, you know for good. The rest is pure strategy.