"Your strategies are unconventional. A bit careless, but you're giving me a run." He's not the sort just to say such things. It's the best game he has played in a while, counting those he played well before the crisis hit. "Strange it would be considered part of a classical education. I doubt I'd ever have learned it if my father hadn't taught us children." Nor would he have stuck with it had his sister not been so persistent and difficult to beat.

Thinking of his family is bittersweet at best, particularly now with things so tits up. He frowns slightly. They're strangers now, or all but. He has no idea if any of them still play.

"Mostly I preferred physical games. I've always been good at those." Particularly those that involved a combination of strategy and strength. "I suppose that's not too hard to guess, though."