Alien: Pawn

Invader-aliens threaten to subjugate the 'firefly' design(s) of Earth-realm if they're not 'magnetized' by stalemate-condition(s) chess, drawing out a CalTech psyche-surgeon!

An invasion-fable inspired by The War of the Worlds (Gene Barry). Thanks so much for reading, 

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The great fireflies of Earth-realm signaled a special consciousness-shift in what comprises the quality of consciousness or intelligence, as a race of very eerie terrifying but quite intelligent alien 'beings' descended on our fair Blue-Planet seeking an intellectual challenge before a full invasion-policy. The firefly, a bioluminescent insect-creature of Earth-realm, hailed for its internally glowing magic, reflects a metaphysics-IQ regarding the ever-present accessibility of the 'idea' of life's magical touch as it pertains to the mind's view of illuminated immortality, an ironically complex thought that the alien-invaders re-presented through a dark vision of illuminated planetary colonization.

ALIENS: We'll challenge one of your brainiac-nerdists to a stalemate-condition(s) chess-match for non-invasion negotiation(s).

They found this brainiac in a computer-science/A.I. algorithm engineer at CalTech named Amlan Satan who'd been working on special programs to mimic the mirror-symmetry variance proliferation of strategy-array(s) of offense-defense coordination(s) in the piece-position board-game of chess, a reflection of conscious perception(s) of intuitive intelligence/decision-making, and he was being hailed as 'pioneer' in decision-making algorithm regeneration, which is why the aliens chose him to challenge this Phase-1 of species-contact, to see if he had the 'mind(s)' to erect a chess-stalemate, lest the entire species of Facebook-optimism simply be subjugated without mercy, given the aliens' mastery of laser-cannons.

ALIENS: If Dr. Satan can draw stalemate against our monarch-player's queen-knight advance-diagonals, we'll talk diplomacy!

The monarch-alien who played against Amlan Satan, who reluctantly agreed to be the species-champion of chess, given his lifelong fascination with the strategy-array design(s) and intuitive variance derivation(s) of chess-play, was the monarch-alien Endymion who was literally surprised when the clever human CalTech nerdist managed a rather 'calculated' rook-bishop double-line array leverage to yield a 'light-hearted' stalemate-condition and trumpeted a 'cinematic' opportunity to create a species-contract for the invaders!

ENDYMION: Damn; we shall self-exile ourselves to the Earth-ocean abyss as isolationists given this design-IQ event in chess.

DR. SATAN: The aliens have resigned to the ocean-abyss (eternal) with this chess-diamond, and we can claim Earth-distance!

What was certain was that chess was suddenly hailed as a 'vehicle' for swift species-negotiation(s), and Dr. Satan was called the 'Jonas Salk' of the alien-contact 'experience' on Earth-realm. Had he lost the dare/challenge posed by invader-Endymion, the laser-magical aliens would simply have created a species-wide Earth-realm shadow-force of unimaginably Empire-IQ laser-blindness. Thus resolved what would have never-ever surfaced as an 'ironic' if 'iconic' destiny for both species, all because of the shocking 'romance' of the bright 'firefly'-like 'dance' of chess itself!

THE END

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