@kormac67 You are not wrong, however, there are many different time formats for a game of chess, two of which are Blitz and Rapid games that are 3 to 5 minutes and 10 to 15 minutes long respectively. We really can't say previous mini-games have been shorter than 10 minutes per game, right? I mean a decent round of Gwent in the Witcher 3 would last almost as long.

@augmentum1 Fair point, but I guess it's never too late to get a chess mini-game in there, since the franchise is apparently not coming to an end any time soon. The games are constantly jumping back and forth in time with each game, and chess has been around for almost 1500 years, so basically it's been around in the time period of lots of the Assassin's Creed games that have been already released and odds are it'll also be present in many that are yet to come. So statistically speaking we're eventually getting chess in one of the possibly hundreds of Assassin's Creed games (!) that Ubisoft is planning to make, right?

@lemmie88 I agree. As was the case with other mini-games in previous Assassin's Creed games, there are usually many different level NPCs around the world map that can challenge you to a game, of course almost all of these mini-games would be optional since a casual player who's not into chess would neither want nor care to practice a lot of chess just to be able to progress a quest. Even if one such occasion were to be present in the game where a game of chess would be required to advance a quest, I imagine the developers would set the difficulty to extremely easy or incorporate an option to skip the game entirely. And as for the rest of the chess games, as I mentioned before, they would be presented as optional challenges, also it wouldn't be fair to tie a trophy to these challenges for obvious reasons.

@augmentum1 Fair point, but I guess it's never too late to get a chess mini-game in there, since the franchise is apparently not coming to an end any time soon. The games are constantly jumping back and forth in time with each game, and chess has been around for almost 1500 years, so basically it's been around in the time period of lots of the Assassin's Creed games that have been already released and odds are it'll also be present in many that are yet to come. So statistically speaking we're eventually getting chess in one of the possibly hundreds of Assassin's Creed games (!) that Ubisoft is planning to make, right?

@kormac67 You are not wrong, however, there are many different time formats for a game of chess, two of which are Blitz and Rapid games that are 3 to 5 minutes and 10 to 15 minutes long respectively. We really can't say previous mini-games have been shorter than 10 minutes per game, right? I mean a decent round of Gwent in the Witcher 3 would last almost as long.

@lemmie88 I agree. As was the case with other mini-games in previous Assassin's Creed games, there are usually many different level NPCs around the world map that can challenge you to a game, of course almost all of these mini-games would be optional since a casual player who's not into chess would neither want nor care to practice a lot of chess just to be able to progress a quest. Even if one such occasion were to be present in the game where a game of chess would be required to advance a quest, I imagine the developers would set the difficulty to extremely easy or incorporate an option to skip the game entirely. And as for the rest of the chess games, as I mentioned before, they would be presented as optional challenges, also it wouldn't be fair to tie a trophy to these challenges for obvious reasons.

I do believe this is high time we had Chess as the mini-game in the next Assassin's Creed game. This is of course a personal opinion and preference, but as the success of the Queen's Gambit TV series showed, people could really get into chess. I also heard rumours that the next game could be based in India, and what better place for chess as the origins of the game are said to go back 1500 years to ancient India and Iran. Opinions everyone?