Vanity-Chess: A Species Deed

A Story by Abishai100

Can an 'Earth-prince' challenge a calculating spying Martian named Endymion to defend the 'laurel(s)' of human-civilization direction?

A chess-fable inspired by A Beautiful Mind. Enjoy,

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Now, Amlan Satan had become a master competitor on cyber-chess forums (e.g., Facebook-chess) and made diagrams of capitalism-geometry as applications of strategy-thinking for politics-IQ and wanted to post Selfies to celebrate what made his thinking a re-presentation of Earth-civilization traffic!

AMLAN SATAN: I've been offering cyber-chess educational diagrams of what makes computer-chess competition A.I.-relevant!

Of course, program-thinking about decision-making thinking/intelligence regarding strategy and chess-IQ reflected real-world complexity about the contours of socialized ambitions, imprinted onto macro-scale ambitious engineering such as NASA-shuttle programs inherently symbolic of universe-risk machinery.

This is arguably why a calculating spying Martian on Earth's moon named Endymion had been eyeing the calculating the designs/activity of this 'Earth-prince' Amlan Satan and wanted to challenge him and see why he'd erected these A.I.-symbolic chess-rationalism algorithms/programs for human-civilization insights into the very 'quality' of species-descent.

ENDYMION: I shall see what this cyber-chess 'prince' of Earth makes of the 'vanities' of self-chess calculations of species-IQ.

ENDYMION: Damn; you've countered my queen-knight advance with a reflection rook-bishop double-line trap-reaction!
AMLAN SATAN: Sure; this sort of chess piece-position array-strategy response shows why intelligence is a 'stalemate' descent.
ENDYMION: I concede this balancing shows that a counter-move for offensive net(s) suggests a 'mirror'-distance!
AMLAN SATAN: Of course, chess is a self-made board for 'private' insight(s), no?
ENDYMION: A man can play chess with himself and appreciate why 'imagining' an imaginary opponent is a simple opposite!
AMLAN SATAN: I'm not 'obsessed' with simply thinking about opposition; self-chess for humans is a 'diary' exercise.
ENDYMION: Don't you see, prince, that playing chess with yourself reveals why intelligence can become a vanity?
AMLAN SATAN: I suppose that's 'half'-true; since self-chess reveals a private-exercise in the 'training' of unpredictability!
ENDYMION: Well, why did the Cold War (between Russia-America) highlight the chess-rivalry between Fischer-Spassky?
AMLAN SATAN: I suppose concerns of the 'symmetry' of chess-shape(s) shows us the 'entertainment' of personal storytelling.
ENDYMION: Well...doesn't humanity's preoccupation with chess-IQ wrought politics suggest a 'private' bias for vanity?
AMLAN SATAN: Sure; self-chess is a vanity (indeed), but it secures axes for competition-training!
ENDYMION: Well, when one plays chess with oneself, where's the public humility?
AMLAN SATAN: Cold-War chess/storytelling showcased why humans love ideas of opinion-disasters.
ENDYMION: Damn!

What this 'triumph' for the Earth-prince (Amlan Satan) in the stalemate-chess match with the calculating and spying Martian (Endymion) revealed was that political and cultural ideations of competition-cheerleading was a real sovereignty argument for humans' apparent 'love' for self-sufficiency. Wow.