Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

Welcome to Free For All Friday here on the Council of Trend Podcast.

I'm your host, Catholic Answers Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn.

Monday and Wednesday we talk apologetics, theology, how to explain and defend the Catholic

faith.

But today we are going to talk about whatever I want to talk about.

Now what I want to talk about is the game of chess.

I used to play chess a lot when I was a kid.

So I went through a big chess phase probably between, I know it's probably eight or nine

years old.

So it brings me so much joy that my little kiddo Matthew, seven years old, he really wants

to learn chess now.

And so we even dusted off the old computer chess board that I used to use to learn how

to play the game.

So back in my day, you know, back in my day, we didn't have fancy chess programs or apps

you could put on your phone.

We didn't have cell phones or anything like that.

But my parents did buy me a computerized chess board.

So it was a regular chess board.

It had the plastic pieces inside and you put the pieces out on the board, but when you

turned the board on and then it kept track of where the pieces were and you could play

the computer and it would light up on the board where to move the opponent's pieces.

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