Or early mating traps.
Other than these rare exceptions, the vast majority of every chess game is unique.
Calling things the same that are only similar is the mark of weak eyes. What is the meaning of your friend's accusation? Chess is repetitive? Chess is boring? Sure, there are instances of this involved in the game, but to boil chess down to only one word, and call it something like boring or repetitive, is an attempt to justify one's own ineptitude and lack of enthusiasm and understand of the game.
Chess is a game in which a myriad of adjectives may be applied, to denote it as only one, negative attribute, and to use this accusation as a reason to quit, automatically betrays the shallow nature and lazy lack of interest in going deeper by the accuser.
Other than these rare exceptions, the vast majority of every chess game is unique.
Calling things the same that are only similar is the mark of weak eyes. What is the meaning of your friend's accusation? Chess is repetitive? Chess is boring? Sure, there are instances of this involved in the game, but to boil chess down to only one word, and call it something like boring or repetitive, is an attempt to justify one's own ineptitude and lack of enthusiasm and understand of the game.
Chess is a game in which a myriad of adjectives may be applied, to denote it as only one, negative attribute, and to use this accusation as a reason to quit, automatically betrays the shallow nature and lazy lack of interest in going deeper by the accuser.