This is one of our strips that has been in the queue for a long time. Since we do the comic part time we have to often weigh longer strips delaying release against shorter strips coming out sooner. We finally got this one wrapped.
Simon is excellent at chess, me, not so much. We thought it'd be funny to have AJ & Magnus engage in the "thinking person's game." Clearly they got the stress part of the game down, but what's the point of stress without an objective?