Overboard by Chip Dunham for October 12, 2021

You might make a night or Queen but never a Bishop Jonas!

Just as well. A bottle cap can’t be bribed with a piece of cheese.

Chess is much more interesting when you play the “spy” variant of the game, where any piece other than the King might turn traitor and join the other side…

At first I thought the loudmouth was Scratch, then I wondered why are the chess pieces as big as Scratch? It’s a stage play. Then I thought why is Scratch gray instead of golden? Then only after a minute looking at the last panel did I realize that Sam isn’t Scratch but a mouse pretending to be Scratch.

Funny that they’re on a ship, but there’s rarely any “cussing like sailors” .

He went a bit too Pacino lol!

“Treating people just like pawns in chess, wait till their judgement day comes…”

He has a future as a chess piece in Wizard and Star Wars chess.

Good morning Crew.

One does have to admire the extent of his profane vocabulary.

What a rook.

I still enjoy playing chess – when I can find someone else who also plays. But I’m something of a fossil as chess requires critical thinking, advance planning, and an ability to adapt to changes in circumstance. And since there are no zombies, dragons, mutants, car chases, kill zones, sirens, explosions, or other similar “components” in chess, I’m told it’s considered rather dull. Like fossils. 8>)

In the Mars books by Edgar Rice Burroughs the Martians played chess with people as pieces, like in Medieval movies. In the Mars version, a piece was not necessarily taken when another piece landed on its square. The two men had to fight it out to see who kept possession of the square.

That’s our little Jonas? Shame shame everybody knows your name.

Oops it’s Sam, not Jonas who’s swearing…………….

A pirate ship without swearing. How refreshing.

Well, son of a … uh … monkey! Yeah—that’s it. Ha.

’Evening, Crew.