Category Archives: 5544, chess

WORST THING ABOUT CHESS

the worst, very worst
thing about chess
is the way the pieces
snigger at
non-Kasperov moves

their utter exasperation
when I blunder
revulsion when
I lose my queen

but still I battle
read the odd book
watch a few
You Tube videos

but
the game

I neither have
it by
intellect
or own it
by pure instinct

that dream
level
tactical
acumen

that sense of what
can be made to be