Chess Visual Poem

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Keyif

I posted this in my blog but thought that a forum might be a better place for it.

I came across the following ‘visual poem’ by Mark Young. Mr Young is a New Zealander who has lived most of his life in Australia, and earns his living as a poet.  As a visual poet, he brings a vibrant literary sense to the text as visual object. He has arrayed phrases and individual words upon a field that takes the form of a traditional chess set. When I saw this I wanted to see what would come out of applying different openings to it. So I applied the following openings to the board.

Scotch Opening
1. Symmetry, Blind
2. Cargo Pants, Handbag
3. Cohort

French Defense
1. Symmetry, Portray
2. Mention, Ephemeral
3. Blind

What poem does your favorite opening say? Or what about a whole game? Fools Mate?

uritbon

it could be nice, but it doesn't make sense, and doesn't reflect the openings style as far as i have tried.

Keyif

More of an abstract poem.

Keyif

Ok lets try this. The words in Bold and Italic are from the square that corresponds to the move. I just went with the rest as it came out.

1. b3, e5
2. Bb2, Nc6
3. e3, d5
4. Bb5, Bd6
5. f4, f6

This would be...

The Gallery is Blind.
While the Tabula Rasa captures holding everything like a ladies Handbag.
Botticelli's Venus is life Ephemeral and a Cohort to the Recluse
round and soft with Bevelled & voluptuous edges.

GIT-REKT

1. a4 d4

2. Ra3 Bxa3

Austere her aura or blind, mortify, litigation; sincerity litigation!

Keyif

Great thanks.

dc1985

Ruy Lopex Exchange variation.

whew...here we go...*inhales*

symmetry blind

cargo pants handbag

cohort (that chinese glyph)

cohort takes handbag, balloon takes cohort

mention blind takes mention

perhaps takes mention, and algebraic takes mention

then cargo-pants takes mention.

Sicilian.

symmetry albumen

cargo-pants recluse(d6)

Keyif

Very cool an interesting way to remember the games.

awesmond

the chinese word means big

Keyif

Thank you.

MathBandit

Cargo pants blind

Incite cinematic

A complete game!