Good choice. Her rook would have been forfeit otherwise.

"It's man's nature to test each other, not necessarily though violence; although the more... underdeveloped specimens turn to violence often. Sometimes you have no choice but to meet them at it. How does the phrase go...? 'I don't start fights, but I sure as hell try to finish them.'"

He picks up a piece, pauses, moves it.

"The board you're looking at is a good example of competition without violence. I's what I mean by feeding the beast... It's a pleasant idea, a world without war and violence. Our friend Cyrus is somewhat obsessive over it, and I admit it's not impossible through some future social mechanism that I can't imagine. I get the feeling, though, that we wouldn't like what we ultimately turn into."