"Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponent's mind." – Bobby Fischer.
The Great War between the Northern and Southern states of the "United States" possess a peculiar interest for civil war chess set enthusiasts, not only because it was a struggle between two sections of people akin to us, but because of the epic courage with which the weaker party with ill-fed, ill-clad and ill-equipped troops, for four year sustained the contest with an opponent not only possessed of immense numerical superiority, but having the command of the sea, and being able to draw its arms and munitions of war from all manufactures of Europe. In many aspects, the American Civil War was a turning point in the history of warfare, as it ultimately took shape as a modern-day war. Like chess, the warring sides voiced the rhetoric of ideology and cause, simplified strategies and tactics to build forces of unparallel size, and used these forces to strike and capture enemy positions.

Sounds like a digital chess set. It that's made of wood and old crown style. Then it must be awesome.