The Czar endorses the idea of porting old-timey board games to networked tablets.

One game he would very much like to see is Stratego, which has entertained the Czar for decades.

He is also wickedly good at it, and has not suffered an uncontested loss since 1976. He did lose a game against a PC version of it set to maximum difficulty in 2008…but the Czar found clear evidence of cheating on behalf of the programming, as it systematically nailed his key pieces one after the other with *exactly* the right combination of pieces, while avoiding the Czar’s lesser ranks entirely. Because maximum difficulty can evidently only be achieved by the AI knowing exactly which pieces were which.

So the Czar prefers human intelligence as a competitor. Although you may not wish to challenge him; the Czar once pulled the arms off a wookie when he (almost) lost.

The Czar of Muscovy

Божію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of total control of all Russia upon the death of Boris Mikhailovich, who replaced Alexander Yaroslav Nevsky in 1263. However, in 1283, our Czar was passed over due to a clerical error and the rule of all Russia went to his second cousin Daniil (Даниил Александрович), whom Czar still resents. As a half-hearted apology, the Czar was awarded control over Muscovy, inconveniently located 5,000 miles away just outside Chicago. He now spends his time seething about this and writing about other stuff that bothers him.