AwesomeHaiku: All That Matters

A haiku is a poem consisting of seventeen syllables, in three lines.  Five syllables in the first line, seven syllables in the second line and five syllables in the third line.

AwesomeHaikus are a series of haikus written by AwesomeAtti, a chess.com moderator.  Perhaps they are related to chess, the chess.com community, a chess games or chess player.

Note: In this AwesomeHaiku I accidentally used 7-5-7 syllables.

e4, ‘best by test’... game on
like a magician
before everything else

Notes:

• "All that matters on the chessboard are good moves" - Fischer
• Opening: e4 is Fischer's favourite opening which he descibed as 'best by test'
• Middle game: “Play the opening like a book, the middle game like a magician, and the endgame like a machine.” - Spielmann. Mikhail Tal was the "Magician from Riga".
• End game: “In order to improve your game, you must study the endgame before everything else, for whereas the endings can be studied and mastered by themselves, the middle game and the opening must be studied in relation to the endgame.” - Capablanca. This creates an infinity loop back to the opening.