Martian-Chess: Dartmouth

A Story by Abishai100

Narrated 'account' of a human engineer whose 'secret' engagement with a Martian results in a rather 'wild' chess-stalemate diplomacy diagram.

An imaginatively fun chess-vignette inspired loosely by Pawn Sacrifice (Ed Zwick), with a 'cool' reference to the iconic sci-fi/horror franchise Alien. Thanks for reading!

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Weyland Corporation hired me to create special chess-IQ algorithms for stalemate-conditions at the Salk for development in A.I. designs for decision-making/game-strategy complexity in the event of an eventual alien contact with an intelligent extra-terrestrial species in the hot summer of 2022.

My name's Amlan Satan and I love chess and computers and have for all my life, and this new 'secret' mission was to cap-ice my lifelong studies in geopolitical decision-making complexity theories and relevance for species/conscious intelligence diagrams, relevant of course for Weyland's new venture into Mars explorations for non-human intelligence and 'greetings' for Earth-IQ in this age of social-media and tech-toy use.

WEYLAND: Satan is a brilliant chess-master, and we're encouraging this diagram for intelligence-greetings for 'Martian' IQ!

Mr. Weyland certainly got his 'wish' when a Martian (Xenomorph) made contact through my computing-terminal at Salk and dared me to draw a stalemate-condition(s) chess-play against his wily form of prowess-driven machine-like offense. I consented to the play which the alien indicated would be a diplomatic 'compact' regarding confirmation of human-IQ celebration and total non-invasion policy on Earth.

ALIEN: Damn; you've used a 'crooked' rook-bishop double-line game-array lever to counter my strong queen-knight advances!

ME: Congrats to me, eh, Mr. Martian; seems Salk/Weyland should have a heyday with the stalemate-diplomacy confidential.

ALIEN: Damn; our compact is consented as perfectly recorded!

ME: I'll send you a compliment-gift Battle-Chess game-board for ensured compact digitization, Mr. Martian.

ALIEN: Damn.

My wife never believed this happened to me, though she's the only (civilian) human I disclosed this awesome secret to, and she remained my avid-fan in my personal/den readings of applications of chess-models to living political intelligence storyboards, relevant for many modern social conditions like Northern Ireland violence and Israel-Palestine detainments! This is something however I 'related' quite optimistically for Facebook-IQ for general populous commentary about the 'quality' of modern life-intelligence (ha)!