In teaching your cat to play chess, I cannot stress strongly enough the need to make use of all the pieces. Watch the cat in this video move the same pawn over and over again while the rest of his force sits idle. It was precisely this ill-advised pattern of movement that cost Nokitoff the title in 1987–ironically enough, to a white cat named Mr. Fluffy.
That’s quite the little gamester at work. If you really want to see a cat go nuts, put out a jigsaw puzzle, but count on losing some pieces.