Stalemate: Lotus

A diorama of what makes chess-IQ reflective or symbolic of 'faerie'-data.

Chess is such a 'miracle' game of thinking that it should inspire its own fan-diorama, no (which is what this is!)? Thanks for reading, 

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Let me guide you into the 'fantastic' ultra-world of chess-IQ and imagination surrounding competition and style in intelligence and intellectualism. Of course, chess may seem erudite, professional, esoteric, 'nerdy' or strange, or even alien to many. However, it's become a fan-favorite on Facebook/social-media in recent years for fans of the Internet as well as a longer-time investment in classrooms for young students intrigued by diagrams of strategy and fair-play. Chess is a game of piece-positions motion(s) on a checkered board, with symmetrical pieces of differing strength/value arrayed against the other team's (identical) opposing pieces for the purpose(s) of offense-defense (protect your 'king'-monarch piece while capturing/destroying the opponent's symmetry-monarch piece!). It's generated quite a 'kaleidoscope' of stories/imagery.

Monarchs played each other in chess as do modern Ivy League club-students on cyber-platforms as do intelligence-officers/spies 'fascinated' by the intuition of strategy, as do I, a cyber-blogging political cartoonist/writer ('Storm-Shadow'). I've been working on 'stalemate' chess designs/programs for A.I. symmetry brain ideations. 'Stalemate' in chess refers to an exact tie/draw or no-win-decision between the opponents/teams because of an identically parallel balance in offense-defense, a 'highlight' in chess which draws out modern-age images of thinking-stability! I consider myself a 'vigilante' defender of stalemate-chess on modern social-media (e.g., Facebook-chess).

I've often thought about what 'stalemate' chess, and chess-IQ in general, draws out in terms of real-world problems, say, between sectarian Northern Ireland (UK) communities (divided) composed of Catholics-Protestants and new-age underground 'groups' working against urban-grid dilemmas like gem-piracy traffic destroying employment/poverty assistance governance programs in Parliament. This had arguably become an Earth 'chess' art!

Of course, there's more 'entertainment' oriented applications of 'stalemate' chess diagrams, or chess-IQ in general, including the fantastically 'symmetrical' or identical rivalry-axes between the comparable (yet nearly opposite!) world soccer nations, Argentina and the Netherlands. It can be said/argued that these two countries, though not as 'prolific' in World Cup titles as Brazil or Italy or France, offer the entertainment/sports arena in the modern media-age a 'fantastic' form of competition-equivalence or 'stalemate-chess' design(s) in pure human dance. One is more primal in approach to competitive-sport, and the other more machine-like or choreographic. This is quite a marvelous analogy, indeed, even for fans of soccer who don't necessarily 'care' for stalemate-chess.

If we now turn our philosophy-attention and IQ to the real-world diagrams of chess-stalemate applications, we might remember the Fischer-Spassky rivalry in champion-chess and how they captured the 'rivalry' on the political stage between their respective nations (USA/USSR). This was a shadow of the Cold War, of course, and 'stalemate' programs concerning powerhouse metaphysics competitiveness in, say, free-market rights or space-travel laurel(s), reveal our natural social imagination regarding the parallels in group-definition(s). In fact, this can become...quite scary (e.g., Nuclear War).

I drive a Lotus Esprit, and I consider my road-skills/interests parallel to my 'fantastic-fascination' with stalemate-chess and chess-IQ in general, as I 'negotiate' my vehicle with V8 and assume the 'romance' of strategic racing, either against myself (in spirit!) or against others (on the Autobahn?) for the express/limited purpose(s) of 'defining' my own 'human' dance. My Lotus is greyish in color, stalemate-chess in insight, and fast as hell.

Who'd I want to challenge on Facebook-chess and draw a stalemate? Perhaps I'd like to challenge an 'evil' James Bond figure or a monarch with plenty of arrogance/vanity. Perhaps I'd like to play against a ghost...or a Martian! What would each of these hypothetical 'characters' say about a stalemate-condition in chess-play and what it reveals about universal democracy (hmm)?

"There's nothing more engaging than Xmas-toy shopping, in search of 'balances' in the mind, for capitalism-IQ, which is why I look for toys 'reflective' of chess-depression" (Storm-Shadow).

Maybe I'm a looney-toonie. Maybe I'm just a classical romantic. I'd like to think this philosophical re-presentation of what makes chess-IQ/stalemate-chess a 'definition' for 'human' design(s) argues indefinitely about the 'quality' of what makes our social-media connected modern planet a 'thing' of self-inventive 'fashionable' drawing(s).

Of course, I'm also an Ivy-grad (Dartmouth) and consider my newfound life in politics-comics and chess-play imagination a thing of great educational logic/inheritance(s). I consider my ideations of stalemate-chess a reflection of what makes intellectualism on Earth a thing of private/sovereign beauty.

"If stalemate-chess is 'wrought' beauty in times of great darkness, then the 'fashion' of magic is to uncover strange forms of hypnotizing democracy" (Storm-Shadow).

You might think this all strange or rote or standard, since stalemate/chess reflects a conscious will to power-humility or beauty-independence, which all sounds clear/obvious, but what I'm stating here/now is that this 'parallel' or symmetry in competitive strategy/thinking (perhaps/arguably symbolic of capitalism-IQ itself!) is some 'hologram' of pure...human...deeds.

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