But in all seriousness, and with all due respect to the departed, I feel like if this were a legit chess puzzle, one of the many good players on the site would have graced this thread with a solution by now?
"Man With No Name"

I did but you quoted the wrong post. Post #17.
Oh I C.
I like your "dance" analogy.
Sometimes it's a beak-dance, where you break away from rules to create a new path, sometimes it's like tango, a good game for both players. It can be like ballet, that is when Mangoos plays, dressed all in white and boring! Now boring is a compliment in chess, let's be clear about that! It can be flamingo, pink and Queeny! Lots of dancing, lots of prancing that is chess!

But in all seriousness, and with all due respect to the departed, I feel like if this were a legit chess puzzle, one of the many good players on the site would have graced this thread with a solution by now?
Man I love you!!!!!
You said the word of my heart, you said it better than I would in 1001 years!!!
Why are you smart guys not solving this darn thing?
It has been here for how long, an entire lunar cycle, it is making me a lunatic!

I mean appearances aren't necessarily always a true reflection... unless they are?
Yes it and the presentation look a little weird. I don't think this is a traditional chess puzzle and I think that, for you, is a part of the puzzle.

... his is a tradition...
Castles & Stones all over! & let us talk "Suicide" while we'R here...
"Whenever I hear the word "tradition", I reach for my Brownies!"
Yes, Brownies are more comforting than Browning! Unless you want to eat your gun, that is...

What's wrong with you?
"Ask not what wrong is with your fellowman, ask what wrong is with the one popping the Q's!"
& thus will the rust drop out of the cleaver & the one holding it with be much more clever! With a hard stare in to the mirror!
Now if you want to be my shrink, I proscribe U a dosage of MJ, that should straight any wo/man into a better 1!
& IF U WANT TO SHOW YOUR SMARTNESS, solve/refute the darn thing at hand. That would make more of an impact & help me 2 learn the trade, now that my teacher has abandoned me!
So get on with it!!!

Defeatism is the order of the new. We never really do any thing to the end, we just quit! So much for the logic...
When the going gets tough the tough... going get's done ... & pooofff his gone
I swing at the goblin with my rusty cleaver. I rolled a one.