Robert perched his lips again at Dexter's question. It is indeed true that he didn't get to play the game very often. [color=0054a6]"It was more like nobody knew this game here. Only my wife does, and her I almost went bald explaining."[/color] It is quite a complicated game for a world full of dumb people, but who knows, there are smart people here and there, maybe even Dexter could turn out to be a hidden prodigy. Robert also grabbed a chair, took off his gambeson and comfortly laid it on his lap as he laid the pieces on the table. 16 filled the two rows closest to him, and 16 more on Dexter's side, but his was black-colored. The second row were all the same pieces, shaped like a lamp. For the first row, the pieces on the far outside looked like a castle, a horse's head, an elephant's trunk, and only the two center pieces resembled something from this world: two crowns respective of queen's and king's. 

[color=0054a6]"In this game, we take turns. I go first you go second, because white pieces go first. Objective is capturing your opponent's pieces, and putting the opponent's king under attack. If your king cannot move while under attack, you lose. Every piece has its own name and rules. This piece is called a pawn."[/color] He pointed at one random piece on the second row. [color=0054a6]"Then rook, knight, bishop, queen, king."[/color] Then went to the first row and quickly tapped on the top of these pieces. He then grabbed one of the pawns [color=0054a6]"Pawn moves forward only one square, twice at first move if so choose. Captures diagonally, becomes either 4 of these pieces if reaching the other side of the board. Knight moves in an 'L' shape. Rook moves straight. Bishop moves diagonally. Queen combines both rook and bishop movements, so it has very powerful scope. And the king just move to any square surrounding it. For every pieces except for the pawn, you can capture the exact same way as you'd move. Cannot capture your own pieces."[/color] He reached for his king and immediately set up a simple illustration of a check. [color=0054a6]"How you put the king under attack, is to put him in the line of capture of other pieces, like your rook here next turn can capture my king. It's called check, and you have to evade, either by blocking, moving away, or capturing the attacker."[/color] With every point he made he put his pieces, or rather slamming it on the board in a way that it felt like he was tossing it as well to illustrate. [color=0054a6]"If you cannot stop this, it's called checkmate, and you lose."[/color] 

Now, knowing his experience teaching Riley this, this is the part where her head explodes. No matter how concise he put it for this kid to learn, it'd still be a lot of info for someone. So he'd do exactly what he did with her. [color=0054a6]"Now, best by test. You might be confused, but a few games in, you'll get the idea. I won't go hard."[/color] 

If he preferred to do something else, that is completely fine by him. He didn't expect anyone to get or enjoy this game this quickly.