Checkmate at Dawn
Painting Three
"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.
At the advent of the first faint light of day, well before dawn,
the knight deploys his army. The resolve of the white king is strong, but
the capability of the remnant of his army is weakened because they have
participated in a nocturnal activity they were not biologically suited to
perform and their inability to move in an extreme and extracoordinated manor
plus being over trained for the wrong situations, leaves the forces of the white
king in no condition to face the army of the knight with it's esoteric
initiative on individual levels in co-ordination with innovative and unrestricted
leadership of a well-rested biologically suited daytime fighting force unencumbered
by excessive technology.
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