ACROSS THE BOARD

ACROSS THE BOARD

what royal devil here
in the meticulous detail?

from a to h and
one to eight

get your computation
one square wrong and
what you
      calculated plain
sailing takes you
through
  the logic of
a Scylla and Charibdis

on your hero’s
doomed journey across
this unforgiving board

every distinction absolute
here, across the board