A third poem by Elly de Waard

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Another poem by Elly de Waard

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A poem by Elly de Waard

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THE TWO SCALE PANS

I once heard a wise man

remark (it was

the poet Leo Vroman)

it makes no sense to

spend time bemoaning your fate

since nature knows nothing

of justice whatsoever.

I’d like to put

this more concisely. To

begin with he is quite right.

Although it might well be that

nature knows what is just

in the sense that she strives

for balance. The scales

of Lady Justitia

have for her no

moral values, but rather

the gravity

of the earth and the utter

velocity of light.

She is the weighing process

as it were: she sets aright

but she holds her tongue.

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Klaus Høeck's contribution to chess literature - now in English!

       i open with the

king’s pawn (aggressive) and walk

       into the dark and

       the somewhat doubtful

aljechin defence (more

       beautiful than lu

       pins) that is to say

black knight to f6 and my

       serbian oppo

       nent also has at

tack in his thoughts i begin

       my counter-attack

       we follow the main

variant to black knight d

       7 (bent larsen’s

       move against mikhail

tal as dangerous as wild

       roses) it is here

       that the white knight is

to be sacrificed which i

       do as the theory

       advises (but in

correctly then calls the po

       sition unresolved)

       the game now contin

ues with the necessary

       forced moves (into the

       wilderness) to the

decisive fourteenth move that

       is to say the black

       queen from d8 is

moved to a5 (origin

       ally discovered

       by a swede but most

ly accredited to the

       russian bagirov

       after a quiet in

termediate move (deep in

       to the shadows) the

       sword’s blow then falls that

move which i have patiently

       been waiting to car

       ry out in real

ity after lengthy a

       nalyses done at

       home – i now move the

white pawn forward two squares from

       a2 to a4

       two exclamation

marks – for even though the move

       doesn’t look like much

       it gives a win in

all the variants (as is

       often the case) see

       the position in

the appendix and try for

       yourself to find the

       decisive move that

leads to the win before read

       ing the solution

       i have chosen to

incorporate this game in

       the collection here

       because it makes up

my humble contribution

       to chess theory

       and i hope that pre

cisely as a poem it

       will survive in the

       rose-garden of mem

ory a bit longer than

       it otherwise would

A poem by Theobald Hock

Poem by Morten Nielsen