It wasn’t just a small thing like losing a game. Niers had invented chess, mastered it. Between his levels as a [Strategist] and his own long hours of study and passion for it, it was fairly safe to say that Niers could win most games while he was still asleep.
That's taking parallel evolution to an extreme ... why would pawns & knights have the same movement constraints if it was a spontaneous creation? Oo
