When I started getting into chess a during covid, I had this vision of future weekend trips with friends at a lake or beach house, where there’d be a chess board, and people would play games throughout the weekend between more active activities.
We’re staying this weekend with friends at an Airbnb, for a wedding in Carmel, CA, and my vision has become reality.

We have some chess players in the house, and although I’m 0-3-1, I’m having so much fun. Playing a few games with friends during downtime, just hanging and talking, it’s exactly what my vision depicted.