That is amusing.

Before the PC I spent years trying to become a high level Chess player. I read scores of books and practiced incessantly. Bobby Fisher was a hero to me as Michael Jordan is to kids today. I even visited Argentina because it was Bobby's favorite place.

I would devastate opponent after opponent and think that I had arrived only to be unexpectedly crushed by a better player. Like the frustrated golfer, I have more or less thrown my clubs into the lake but I still consider Chess to be the ultimate game.

I am a somewhat avid turn-based gamer. The games that the review mentions are real time strategy and are not among my favorites. The best are Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri and Civilization II & III. Now there's a couple of games that will keep you at the key board until dawn