A Chess World Scenario!

An American prince and diamond-baron use chess as a negotiation-platform to evaluate the fate of a prosecuted woman and their own game-depression.

A chess-condition parable inspired by the human-governance negotiation 'wisdom' themes cheered in the iconic (if controversial!) tale of The Merchant of Venice. Enjoy, 

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Amlan challenged Boris to chess and was required to draw a special stalemate-condition against a master Russian who had the uncanny ability to create agile queen-knight combos, requiring Amlan, a swift Ivy-grad with a knack for choreographed chess-play to draw out elegant rook-bishop double-lines of offense balance to create piece-position stabilization which was miraculously sufficient to draw the required stalemate against the Russian brainiac!

However, this was no usual chess championship of civilization-IQ or intrigue, for what was at stake was the soul of a rebel-woman named Isa who'd attempted to steal Boris' precious Sierra Leone diamonds shipped through Antwerp and potentially magnifying his global gem-empire. You see, Isa attempted to smuggle the gems from one of Boris' connected Belgian stores while posing as one of his mistress-carriers of diamonds. Amlan happened to have met the lovely Isa at a Jewish restaurant in Brussels while playing a chess-tourney there and immediately knew Boris would have her jailed, especially after she posted her daring gesture, albeit with a mock-parody message, for Facebook-IQ!

AMLAN: How'd you engage with Isa in the first-place, evil Boris?
BORIS: Well, Amlan my friend-prince of the Ivy-world, I connected with her through Holland!

AMLAN: Well, Boris, this is a 'scenario' of utmost importance, for human value, no?
BORIS: Amlan, my friend-prince, you've certainly fulfilled your honorable chess-stalemate condition with me.
AMLAN: I know; however, I'm wondering if I should pursue a lengthened 'simpatico' with my old acquaintance.
BORIS: You know you'd like to challenge me in chess in the future, Amlan, since I'm as skilled as you!
AMLAN: You're my only equal, evil Boris, but Isa is a lovely lady whom I'd like to congratulate for this salvation!
BORIS: You're a romantic, Amlan my friend, but Isa is an 'old' acquaintance, and we've just become chess-pals.
AMLAN: I know; we'd make a 'cool' Facebook-chess stage duo for audiences, no?
BORIS: Certainly...you've made a good play and now must make a 'wiser' decision (for life's turns), yes?
AMLAN: Indeed, evil Boris; I think I'd like to continue our chess-simpatico indeed; I need the brain-IQ exercises.
BORIS: Chess is boring when you have no equal, eh?
AMLAN: Indeed; and one must not love chess without the humility of seeking an equal competitor for sharpness!
BORIS: Well, then what will you tell your rescued maid-servant of Belgium, good-hearted prince of chess-play?
AMLAN: I suppose I'll buy her a ticket to Washington and set her up in an apartment and then continue our chess-relation.
BORIS: Very wise; me thinks your 'damsel-in-distress' (Isa) will find your negotiated choice rather wise too!
AMLAN: Indeed...you're a hard man to serve diplomacy, evil Boris.
BORIS: We shall remain 'chess' friends, prince Amlan.
AMLAN: Excellence...

Isa moved to Washington and Amlan stayed in Europe and continued an audience-cheered chess-IQ scenario with his newfound equally-skilled master for Facebook fans. It had all turned out for the very-best, though Amlan would miss the 'true-romance' he shared with the damsel Isa, and Isa'd perhaps never learn of the magical wonders of chess from a distance, since she took up a new position in the West as a librarian...and diamond duty-free shop clerk.

THE END

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)