Cafe that provides chess has many uniqueness. Those uniqueness could be that through chess, it can create a 2 way communication that can lead to a new relationship. Wether those relationship is friendship or business relationship. Games of chess can also train the brains of customer who wants to do cangkruk in the shop.
Usually the ones who do cangkruk in shops like this varies. From abang becak, building builders, even university professors and government's employees usually do cangkruk in the chess shop.
According to history, cangkruk is first done by villagers with their neighbors. Although now most people doesn't really interpret cangkruk like that anymore, but there are still people who has the intentions of gaining friends through cangkruk. You can really feel this in the Chess Shop (Warung Catur)
Chess shop is a unique place for cangkruk from Surabaya. Like Jogja's angkringan, there are places in other cities that adopt this chess shop culture. So what is this chess shop? Chess shop is actually a small cafe that provides games of chess in the shop so their customer can enjoy a game of chess while they enjoy their drinks or food. In the chess shop, we are free to play with anyone we like. Our opponents could be our own friends, and can also be someone we just met 5 minutes ago.
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