The light without dark
Summer without the winter —
this duality
Copyright Francis 2021
Haiku: Duality
Tag: chess
Whither the origin of chess — Stabroek News (Reblog)
A senior official of the International Chess Federation, known by its French acronym FIDE, once noted that perhaps the game of chess was devised by aliens. I laughed. How ridiculous! The moment passed. However, as I widened my listening and reading skills, the thought that chess was alien oriented did not seem so far-fetched after […]
Whither the origin of chess — Stabroek News
Three-Dimensional Chess — shadowplay (Reblog)
I read Walter Tevis’s The Queen’s Gambit years ago and loved it. His other filmed books, The Hustler and The Man Who Fell to Earth are great too, and made good movies but the books are still worthy of investigation. The Color of Money doesn’t really have anything much in common with Scorsese’s film and […]
Three-Dimensional Chess — shadowplay
Of Chess and Art — Artschaft (Reblog)
Chess is a beautiful game. Like artists painting their worlds within the confines of a canvas, so do chess players build their vision within the square-format of their board.
Of Chess and Art — Artschaft
Review: Foundation or the best chess game ever! — (Reblog)
Hello people! I hope you all are well! Today I am really excited because I am here with the first review for Sci-Fi Month, and I am reviewing a book that took me completely by surprise, so… let’s start! Title: FoundationSeries: Foundation #1Author: Isaac AsimovPage Count: 244 For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has […]
Review: Foundation or the best chess game ever! —
Haiku: Stratagem
Expendable pawns
Retreat a symptom of loss —
Then the Master turns
Copyright Francis 2021
A devastating continuation — Stabroek News (Reblog)
In 1987, the chess grandmaster Evgeny Vladimirov, a native of the then USSR, won a game against his countryman Vladimir Epishin. That game made the list of ‘the ten best chess moves of all time’. The move was 26. Bh6!! It earned a double exclamation mark by all analysts. Imagine White has a queen to […]
A devastating continuation — Stabroek News
HOW TO GET GOOD AT CHESS [ARTICLE] — slicethelife (Reblog)
With the popularity of Netflix’s -The Queen’s Gambit- and also getting a boost from this years pandemic-the popularity of chess has received a big boom Here is an article from The Guardian with tips on how to get good at chess. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/nov/14/how-to-get-good-at-chess-the-queens-gambit?utm_source=pocket-newtab
HOW TO GET GOOD AT CHESS [ARTICLE] — slicethelife
Haiku: Coup de Grace
Lack of protocol
He is breaking all the rules
Coup de grace actioned
Copyright Francis Barker 2020
Haibun: The Long Game
The silence is deafening,
tension taught as the tightest string.
We face not armies
but a hidden host
against whom we play
the game of our lives.
Who is first to blink?
Chequerboard duality
Playing the long game
copyright Francis Barker 2020
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