Chess is asymmetric warfare, then? I wonder how you could modify it to model the covert aspects of terrorism against modern civilizations.

Every time you take a bishop, twenty pawns pop up at other points on the board.

Also, you concentrate your attacks on the pieces of the guy three boards over, then act surprised when this doesn't seem to result in victory.

Um. That's why I always lose at chess...I get distracted by the other guys and forget which board is mine.
Aaagh! I'm a Republican and I never knew!

One of each player's pawns is a suicide bomber, and the other player doesn't know which until it's too late?

Reminds me of a novel I read which in passing mentioned a kind of board game where when you picked up a piece it might suddenly turn out to belong to the other player, in which case it would give you a nasty bite on the thumb...

Is it scary that I remember that scene as from one of the Lone Wolf novels-of-the-gamebooks series? Is it scarier that I remember it as about book 7?

Some how, this reminds me of Jumani