Grandmaster

I don’t believe in psychology.I believe in good moves.

Bobby Fischer

There is celestial beauty in these lines-
Stellar geometry of infinite complexity
And boundlessness in a bounded world.
These sixty-four squares are my destiny.
Each decision is weighed in the balance,
Each move is plotted on a graph.

How do I wish the board to look
Ten or twenty moves from now?
Strategy is all:whether to defend,
Attack or manouevre,-understanding
Oneself without fear or shame.
Victory is mine, if I ask the right questions.

Find balance in imbalance,
Transcendence in circumstance.
Before each move,consider
Your opponent’s response,and how
You,in turn,will counter his riposte,
Analyse positions,variations,chances.

More than the atoms in the universe-
The possible positions on the board.
Agile as a monkey,I must leap
Among the branches of this tree,
Discipline and imagination as one,
The sixth sense my prehensile tail.

(One boyhood Christmas,my parents gave me
A globe,a fabulous radiant blue globe,
-Oh, the constellated hours I spent sailing
The oceans and trekking across continents,
Mapping the world for the first time,
Columbus on the prow of a dream…)

Opening,middlegame,endgame:
The gods have set the limits
For us to study and transform.