"I rather prefer to be a Knight, myself, though the other comparisons probably aren't bad. It seems too, that we have different names for some of the pieces, though... that's interesting. It seems the game of chess is one of the things our worlds have in common."

He expects something like magic to be more or less universal, it's just a given to him that it exists. Though something as random as a game existing on other worlds... that's very peculiar for sure.