I have never played an actual game of chess or checkers. I have only ever seen a table for them with the associated pieces but have never once actually engaged in the game or even so much as watched one. Card games however, those I am not unfamiliar to and many, many hands were dealt. It became a recurring trend to not play said games with the cat and out of such boredom I learned a fair few sleights. Not a practical thing in any sense but an interesting skill to have added.