Stalemate-Dreadlock

A Story by Abishai100

Narrated 'account' of a man conscious of chess-stalemate symbolism, world-imagination, romanticism, and 'universal' drama!

A 'cool' Saturday end-of-summer 'fable' about ideations ofc stalemate-chess and inspired very loosely by Searching for Bobby Fischer (Ben Kingsley). Enjoy,

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I was so excited when the new film about the intrigue-IQ behind Cold War symbolic/reflective chess-championship (Boris Spassky v Bobby Fischer) prompted all kinds of society ideations about the nature/quality of competitive-political consciousness in the post-Industrialization era. In fact, I happen to be a chess-aficionado and enjoy watching chess-games on YouTube and challenging others on Facebook. The new movie prompted thoughts in me regarding the complexity of the mind and its applications in social imagination.

What makes chess beautiful to me is its profundity in expressions of 'private' intelligence happiness. You get to explore the nature of self-made decisions for strategy, the way the piece-positions can be moved singularly (or in-tandem!) to create 'grand' arrays of offense-defense, to capture your opponent's king or queen piece and to declare yourself as 'ambitiously' intelligent! Heck, you can even get a chess-board and stay-at-home and play by yourself, imagining an 'imaginary' opponent will play against you to 'counter' the moves you make/choreograph (all in your head!). Chess is simply a 'game' of consciousn/mental distance(s)!

I myself am a Boston resident, Catholic by faith, and Algerian-American by descendancy, and I write political fables online while doing consultancy work for the diamond market in British Columbia. My name's Amlan Satan, and I'm a psychiatric patient, and I see a psychiatrist about once-a-month, and I'm on two forms of medicine (Klonopin/Risperidone). These mind-medicines help me work through the 'jittery' schizophrenic feeling(s) of mental self-disarray and streamline focus with diligence while easing the mind into the form(s) of self-consciousness required to perform my duties and social activities and enjoy things...like Facebook-chess! It's become a lifestyle decision, reflective of my consciousness applications to 'normal' civilization-IQ, and chess never deflates this sort of drive (in me!).

So, I was in a Boston bookshop reading about the Cold War applications of stalemate-chess when I encountered this Russian 'goddess' who'd moved to the United States during that awful Russo-Ukrainian tribulation. This lady, Ana, told me stalemate-chess fascinated her too, since 'stalemate' (a draw/tie/no-win decision!) reveals the strange 'profundity' of what makes the strategy-competition IQ game a reflection of political/warlike dance or customary democracy.

The Soviets and the Americans engaged in a rather 'dangerous' game of Space-War competitive fury during the Cold War era, and though it spawned many-a space-age tale/fable, it also deepened divisions between two very different cultures/superpowers. In fact, the Cold War space-race was itself a sort of 'dark' chess-stalemate which reminded folks why, perhaps/arguably, a Martian-alien would consider our 'grand' human species/civilization ambitious about the technical 'machinery' of universal design.

As a thinker, writer, psychiatric patient, romantic, and lover of chess (Facebook-IQ), I consider myself fascinated/drawn into the world of 'chess-stalemate' politics, in places like Northern Ireland (United Kingdom) and Israel-Palestine, where inter-religious coexistence draws 'dark' ideations of strange days/knights and the 'troubles' of negotiated violence or disarrayed humanism.

ANA: Why don't you write a story/novel about stalemate-chess, Satan?
ME: That's a damn good idea, lovely lady.

ANA: Find some 'cool' inspiration in a Boston bookstore or something.

ME: That's a damn good idea, lovely lady.

ANA: Who knows...you might encounter a 'library' ghost or something.

ME: That's a damn good idea, lovely lady.

Ana/I attended the colorful St. Patrick's Day event/parade in Boston (New England) and considered why 'stalemate-chess' was an ideation of modern Western civilization that creates awesome imagery regarding the tones/colors of human/social distances and the bridges to real peace and commerce in the post-Industrialization era. It's why/where I proposed to her (finally!).

So, I'm on the Boston metro, and I'm reading my copy of The Monkey-Wrench Gang, and I think of Ana and how she moved me to write a 'book-report' on Pawn Sacrifice and what it meant to my personal diaries/evaluations of the nature/quality of world-traffic and human/social democracy...and perhaps even existentialism. Chess drew me to the world...and to destiny.