The Library Dreamcatcher

A Story by Abishai100

A chess-nerd at the Library (Dartmouth) is visited by a Martian who proposes a 'stalemate' dare to draw a 'dream' about Earth-djinns.

A vignette about the metaphysics-design of the complexity of stalemate (chess) inspired by Searching for Bobby Fischer and reflective of civilization-IQ/dialogue surrounding sociopolitical (or cultural!) daylight. Enjoy,

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Amlan played chess by himself in the illustrious and illuminated Dartmouth library and thought about the pensive nature of self-made chess and the sides of opposition and the qualities of a stalemate-condition in which there'd be a forced draw or no-win decision based on an end-game tight-position axes creating strange arrays of basic piece-position stabilization. He read about the Cold War in the library (Dartmouth) and meditated on what made stalemate-chess IQ a thing of natural human/social distances as well as a magical symbol of eventual peace. The Library became his den for sociopolitical rationalism.

Amlan's best pal Raki decided to visit him every now and then he realized his cognition-chess Ivy-buddy was no longer coming to Delta-house social parties to just lay back and drink some Cutter-drinks and instead spent Friday-eves playing chess, though in his strange defense, Amlan would claim to his buddy that he'd been adequately 'social' as he stared at the lovely single librarian girl who was quite charming to him, and Raki told him to stop playing chess and poke the librarian for Facebook-IQ.

DIARY-ENTRY (Amlan Satan): Me thinks the arrangements of stalemate-chess invoke ideations of Earth-society charms (ha).

LIBRARIAN: I note you come in so often and just sit and read or gaze out the window (or at me!) as you entreat chess-time.

AMLAN: Yeah...you guessed me right, Lizzy; maybe I need more off-time for some serious Facebook-IQ romanticism!

LIBRARIAN: Well, I might entreat you for some coffee at Murphy's or New England Clam Chowder.

AMLAN: That sounds incredibly normal (hmm).

MARTIAN: I'll cross through the magic Stargate dimensions portal and find Amlan Satan inside the Dartmouth Library and challenge him to a chess-play in which he'll be required to draw some kind of stalemate-condition against me (ha).

This Martian-alien was an insect-dragon being with an invisibility-cloaking power/magic and decided to sneak into the Dartmouth Library on the day that Raki forgot to visit his buddy Amlan and posed him the chess-stalemate 'dare' and hoped he'd accept on behalf of humanity so he'd be content retreating to the Earth-ocean abyss as an isolationist-exile forever following this 'metaphysical-intellectual' chess-IQ challenge, as long as he kept all the 'sci-fi' contours of such an engagement an 'incomplete' secret!

ALIEN: So, prince of the Ivy-league and this lit library, you knew someone might descend upon this arena for a mind-game?
AMLAN: I suppose I'd meditate on some of the more 'metaphysical' contours of this library-experience with chess-IQ now!
ALIEN: You must keep this proposition-dare a scientific secret, Amlan Satan.

AMLAN: Alright; so what's the education-value from your Martian plane?

ALIEN: Simply encouraging you to consider the dimensions/significance of stalemate in the world of chess-warfare/governors.

The Alien talked to Amlan Satan for hours in that vacant library that day while cloaked invisibly and meanwhile Amlan learned about some of the more Earth-imaginarium aspects of 'stalemate' chess-play and what it had meant for the evolution of governance ideations or governance consciousness. What would have the Cold War manifested had stalemate-chess been the 'sole' consideration of this game of mind-vanity? A stalemate is somehow an end-game frustration or calming scenario which both sides concede a 'dead-end' because of piece-position arrays that illuminate simply beautiful movement axes of parallel-distances!

ALIEN: You've managed to erect a 'cool' stalemate-chess against me with a nice rook-bishop double-line motion of side-stasis.

AMLAN: Yeah...there's something nice about both sides reaching resolutions in motion-diagonals, but what's this about alien?

ALIEN: What did you conclude, given this strange game between us (secret!), about political impact (e.g., Cold War)?
AMLAN: I suppose...there's something 'cool' about the positions of game-theory arrays for decision-making sanity/depression!

Afterwards, the Martian simply and eerily vanished, and Amlan was greeted by his Dartmouth-buddy Raki (Delta-house) who insisted they go see a YouTube viewing of an amazing Courier-Becker tennis match (Germany-America), and Amlan told him, "Sounds like an American paragon for a simplified thought about recreational/competitive distances, maybe of national/cultural pride (but also dignity)...let's go (but first let's invite Lizzy --- my librarian-girl).