Since the rules were no more complex than that of a human game of shogi, Braxiatel outlined them without any simplification. The nice thing about this sort of game was that, with a few constant rules, they managed to form a game whose iterations numbered more than all the atoms in the universe at one point in time.

He offered Narvin a coin so that the boy might toss it. "I'll take the obverse." Braxiatel had, by this point, settled on a strategy for the game.