A strange little side quest
The fun part of looking behind Royal Elite: Archer Defense is seeing how many older ideas are still alive in modern play. Women competed in Olympic archery as early as 1904, making it one of the early Olympic sports to include women. A second detail makes the picture even better: The word 'checkmate' is linked to the Persian expression 'shah mat', used when the king was trapped. So a round of Royal Elite: Archer Defense is not just a quick distraction; it is a tiny stop on a much longer archery timeline.
