Games (short story)

Games was thirty-fourth Brief Encounters short story published in DWM 192 on 1 October 1992 by Marvel Comics UK and written by Warwick Gray. The story featured the Mandarin, aka the Toymaker, playing four dimensional chess with the Entity, aka Fenric.

Summary
The Mandarin and the Entity play four dimensional chess, and, as the Mandarin realises he is about to lose, strategically plays into a stalemate to prevent the Entity from taking over his body.

Plot
The Mandarin

Characters

 * The Mandarin
 * The Entity

The Mandarin

 * Some concepts the Mandarin doesn't understand or know of; these include evil and what a stalemate is.
 * The Entity refers to the Mandarin as a "magician".

The Entity

 * While in the Arabian plains, the Entity went by the name "Aboo-Fenran".

Continuity

 * The comic War-Game previously depicted the Sixth Doctor and Frobisher playing four-dimensional chess.