Chess is an excellent board game, I love all the strategy involved in playing it, I used to be really good.
I've also played shogi though after chess it takes a lot of getting used to. It's a similar game but there are some fundamental differences that you need to get the hang of.
Chess is a very intelligent strategy game that I used to play quite often. Other than that I think Sorry is a very good game. Revenge is sweet. Maybe I'll play chess later, fun..
I love that game. But it takes longer than monopoly.
I hate both those games, because they take so long to play through. Then you get down to the wire and if you aren't winning you're probably screwed unless you're amazingly lucky and then once you lose you basically wasted 4 hours of your life.
I prefer the shorter games like Sorry and Stratego.
Being of some what of an asian decent, My dad wanted me to play Go and Shogi. However I prefer to play Go over shogi, because the skill required to play Go is a lot lot more than the skill required to play shogi. the challenge is interesting and keeps my mind sharp.
For other board games I tend to think of them as "Bored games" as in games to do only when you have nothing better to do :|
I like Risk because it was the only game we had for a while, Chess because I own... or at least I own the people I play, but a week-dead badger could probably defeat my common challengers. I like Stratego because of an obscure reference. Best board game? My upgraded version of monopoly, of course!
