[Even though it had been an amazing blunder on his part, John found that his pride wasn't hurt. After all, he knew he was no good at chess. Besides, Sherlock seemed to be enjoying himself, and from his tone, only a bit of it was completely at John's expense.]

Yeah, well, that and I think better when I'm on my feet, doing something other than trying to read minds in order to figure out where to put a bunch of little wooden bastards.

[Bishop to E4.]