Checkmate 1
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Checkmate at Dawn

First Painting.   

"Checkmate at Dawn"
Otherwise known as "The Preemptive Strike".
A series of four small paintings,
an abstracted still life of Japanese hand carved chess pieces,
king and knight, in a real check mate that appeared in the chess section of the New York Times,
sometime in the autumn of 1965 (The Greenwich Village Period).
Oil on canvas.

The nocturnal events transpire visible only to the naked eye as night vision lit only by starlight and the refractive light of combat.  The white king is opposed by a knight.  The king tries to mount a nocturnal attack but the knight's defenses hold.

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