I played chess today, and my chess strategy really explains a lot about me as a person:

I love to castle. I try not to do it every game, because people start to catch on, but it is very exciting for me when I get to switch the king with the rook so I do it 99% of the time.

People accuse me of not thinking ahead when I play. That is not true. I have so many strategies in my head, unfortunately they all have one goal: get me to a point where I can castle. Beyond that, I have zero clue what i'm going to do until i'm there

To use chess as a battling metaphor, I have no idea how to win a war but you can be damn sure we're going to get to the battle ground in the most efficient way possible while still having time to stop for snacks

So this morning, I castle. Except the board is not really set up well for this to be a good strategy. My king is virtually defenseless.

but I castled. So in my head, I've already won

At this point, I have options.
I could send some pieces over to defend my king. I could use my pieces clustered on the other side of the board to take her pieces.

OR I could do something incredibly reckless that she would never expect: SEND MY KING OFF TO WAR

That's right. I used my king as an offensive piece.

And I was right. She did not expect that. She did not have a defense in place, and I took a rook and a knight and something else. Pawn I think

This was not a strategy in any sense of the word. This was me going through life trying to accomplish one ridiculous goal, accomplishing it, and realizing that it did absolutely nothing to benefit me so I just cluelessly do random shit that sometimes works out

Unfortunately, my opponent was kind of doing the same thing and we ended in a stalemate LOL

Our kings signed a peace treaty and got married, forever uniting our two kingdoms under one rainbow flag