About to explode!

About to explode!, originally uploaded by jasonmurk.

I don’t think I ever blogged about chess before, not sure I will again, but I love the chess font, and I found this textbook illustration to be one of maximum tension. Like a powder keg. There’s a (Borgesian) garden of forking paths from here, and it can go any and all ways, explode in all ways, and this is one of those chess games where there’s no correct analytic decision which can be made, no right move. This is actually one of those chess games where you knock all the pieces over and go for a run in the sun.