I'm looking forward to absurd openings that include things like "I'm just going to use my bishop to get own pesky little pawn out of the way." If chess is a wa

I'm looking forward to absurd openings that include things like "I'm just going to use my bishop to get own pesky little pawn out of the way." If chess is a war simulation, then: It seems like it is both brutal and useful to deliberately destroy one's own units. (It's bad PR, always, but I'm both the PR department and the native public audience. It'll be fine on my side of the board, and it might even frighten the enemy.)