When your behind in pieces, there is only way to win a game of chess, make the board so complicated that no-one is understanding is, but you.
This is the way the book go's, its get so complicated, you just read, totally clues about how all the ends will fall to gather, and the do!
I am hooked to this new(?) Story-type gentlemen-basterts, robin hood style you mide say, not to much wizards, like the crown conspiracy, michael sullivan's series about two thieves with a lot of fun!