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In Terms of Chess
It didn’t begin with an absolute pin
more like like two advanced pawns tentatively dancing around
the chequers contemplating artificial castling and decoyed attraction
a hemmed in bad bishop
and best play battery
bound blind pigs devouring lost mates
blitzed in blocked positions
building a bridge calculated
counterpoints in dark squares desperado dead draws
developmental diagonals
double checks with endgame studies
dreams enterprizing evaluations
exchanges
exhibitions
exposed kings with a fifty-move rules a couple of fingerfehlers
flags and flight squares flying
in fool’s mate finishes forced
moves and forfeits
friendly game fortresses
gardez and a greek gift sacrifices
hanging
handicaps
heavy pieces in holes with horizontal lines
human moves with the best intentions fraught
with imbalanced increments of initiative based on intuition
j’doube!!
kingside
knockout tournaments loose
pieces losing tempo.. lufts
and possible loss
main line masters in matched in mating attacks
back to the middle
game
miniatures and minor exchanges mouse slips
and mysterious rook moves their novelty notations
those novelty notations.. a preoccupation with odds opening preparations overloaded with overprotection
and pattern recognition
pawn skeletons
patzers played by hand
post mortem pushes quiet moves queening ranked
then recaptured
again refuted resignations
to 'romantic chess'
royal forks and pieces
sealed moves and seesaws through a semi-closed sharp shot silent
in sorties
space
stronger side strategy
sudden death swindles
table based symmetry in tall pawn techniques
trapped text moves
and tension about theoretical draws tidebreak and time
undermining an unorthodox opening and variation with varnished centers weak squares waiting
for white windmills and wings woodpushers
X-rays and yawned zwishenzug
more like like two advanced pawns tentatively dancing around
the chequers contemplating artificial castling and decoyed attraction
a hemmed in bad bishop
and best play battery
bound blind pigs devouring lost mates
blitzed in blocked positions
building a bridge calculated
counterpoints in dark squares desperado dead draws
developmental diagonals
double checks with endgame studies
dreams enterprizing evaluations
exchanges
exhibitions
exposed kings with a fifty-move rules a couple of fingerfehlers
flags and flight squares flying
in fool’s mate finishes forced
moves and forfeits
friendly game fortresses
gardez and a greek gift sacrifices
hanging
handicaps
heavy pieces in holes with horizontal lines
human moves with the best intentions fraught
with imbalanced increments of initiative based on intuition
j’doube!!
kingside
knockout tournaments loose
pieces losing tempo.. lufts
and possible loss
main line masters in matched in mating attacks
back to the middle
game
miniatures and minor exchanges mouse slips
and mysterious rook moves their novelty notations
those novelty notations.. a preoccupation with odds opening preparations overloaded with overprotection
and pattern recognition
pawn skeletons
patzers played by hand
post mortem pushes quiet moves queening ranked
then recaptured
again refuted resignations
to 'romantic chess'
royal forks and pieces
sealed moves and seesaws through a semi-closed sharp shot silent
in sorties
space
stronger side strategy
sudden death swindles
table based symmetry in tall pawn techniques
trapped text moves
and tension about theoretical draws tidebreak and time
undermining an unorthodox opening and variation with varnished centers weak squares waiting
for white windmills and wings woodpushers
X-rays and yawned zwishenzug
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