“He hated games, they made the world look too simple. Chess, in particular, had always annoyed him. It was the dumb way the pawns went off and slaughtered their fellow pawns while the king lounged about doing nothing. If only the pawns would've united... the whole board could've been a republic in about a dozen moves.”
The thirty-fourth book of Discworld features the Watch and the ancient rivalry between trolls and dwarves. The battle of Koom Valley was long ago, but its memory lives on and is still a cause of friction between the two species, and that friction is bubbling up in Ankh-Morpork.
