Chess over dinner with Raz, head cook/master of PR/my first Nepalese gender sensitivity trainee…

“Why do you keep calling that the minister? Isn’t that the queen?”

“It’s the minister.”

“You don’t call it the queen? It’s always been queen to me.”

“No, because it has power.”

“The queen can’t have power?”

“Ok then, queen.”

There. One man at a time. Needless to say, he beat me in I think six moves.