Thu, 19 May 2005

Circular Strategies
Owen’s sister wants to be a chess prodigy. As such, she’s convinced that learning anything about the methods of chess strategy will only hurt her, convinced as she is that the true prodigious players around the world have an intuitive understanding of the game that mesmerizing a series of famous endgames would only corrupt. The problem with this notion is that Owen’s sister isn’t a very good chess player.

“Listen, Rissa, I’m not saying you have to do like in-depth study or anything, but…see, look right here, you’re in the same spot as Browne, when he played Momic in ‘73, so if you just —”

“Shut up shut up shut UP!”

“And you could totally cut off my drive here with a more hypermodern possession of these squares here—”

“Moooooom! Make Owen shut up!”

“And so…heeeeey. What do we look like?”

“I dunno. Something. I’m obviously I’m a girl, but beyond that I’m drawing a blank. How weird is this?”

“Yeah! I can’t even remember the last time something actually got described in any detail. In fact, I’m super-suprised there’s even dialogue here.”

“It’s nutty, I’m telling you. What’s the deal? I mean stuff like this is, you know, important.”

“It’s important to me, that’s for damn sure.”

“We’re gonna have to do something about this. And how. But what?”

“I dunno. It’ll wait until tomorrow, though; I’m ready to be off the phone.”

“Phone?”

“Fuck, man, I don’t even know anymore. Downright disturbing.”
(12:06.05.19.2005) [/alpha] #