As the Welsh ambassador for chess I am often in the poor sheepless corners of the globe - Africa and Asia mainly, spreading the word of chess.  I founded the first Welsh language chess school in Kigali, Rwanda and set up the first official chess-based City twinning between Llantrissant and Chandpur, Bangladesh.  I am Wales' first chess emmissary to most minor African countries for example Morrocco. 

In this role I am required to sell the chess dream and to evangelise the literal chess story to non-believers.  In the beginning there was Steinitz...  

Recently, however, I have begun to question the fundament of my chess beliefs and am suffering a real crisis of faith.  I have started to doubt whether chess is really the one true path to enlightenment.  I have even started to look at other games.  I have found that Backgammon gives me equal spiritual fulfilment. 

Magriel's Backgammon unlike any chess book I have read is absolutely authoritative and is subject to no questions since its redaction is only a couple decades after the death of the founder of the game.  

Most chess books, in contrast, were written many, many centuries after the death of the founder and they are often at loggerheads over the legitimacy of various teachings - these disputed teachings sometimes form the core of separate movements - Classical, Hypermodernism and Counter-intuitivsimism.  This is not the case in Backgammon where the doubling dice always promises eternal paradise.

I want to convert to Backgammon can I follow both codes equally?

M-rphy is the true god. Do not deny your roots.

The only thing wrong with chess is being subjected to the people playing it.

As spokesperson for all the poor unenlightened Africans, I  hereby affirm that we will follow Lord Beast wherevr he wishes to lead us, even to backgammon.

But for god's  sake man, don't call the Moroccans African, they speak French, ffs. How would you feel if we called the French European?

 I thought the French epitomised all that was European ?! Or is that the Welsh ?

The Welsh epitimose all that is noble, heroic and epic in the world.

Absolutely, like Ivor the Engine.

PerrshhhhhhhttttCuuuuu

PerrshhhhhhhttttCuuuuu

PerrshhhhhhhttttCuuuuu

Treacle Pudding,

Treacle Pudding,

Treacle Pudding

Apple Roll

Apple Roll

Apple Roll

Cheese and Biscuits

Cheese and Biscuits

Cheese and Biscuits

Fish and Chips

Fish and Chips

Fish and Chips

Soooooouuuuuuup!

Perhaps it is not good to play chess under the African sun without a hat on.

That might produce what the French "foreign legionairs" used to call "le cafard" (something like madness. . .in tnis instance chess-madness.).

Well my son, converting to backgammon is better than those hopeless sinners who insist on monopoly 

Beast, you should not convert, for we should miss your wonderful lunacy!

You should follow Magriel's (a.k.a X-22)  example and switch to poker.  Quack,Quack.