At one point you wrote but managed to only managed to. Other than that, this was awesome.

Made me laugh! Good stuff, my first thought when I read ‘precise maneuvers’ was chess too.

Oooh, and the first thing that came to my mind when I read “ebony queen” was an African transvestite… but that’s probably because I watched a Jerry Springer rerun earlier today.

Awesome job on the challenge, lots of great similes and metaphors plus a neat idea for a ficlet using the chess thing.

Ouch! cool live version of a chess game.

thanks for killing my nirvana, thebetweenspace.
For that I’m giving myself 5 stars – because I can!

Hilarious, teeth-grinding pleasure at his pain – and any ficlet that can get all that has done a good job. Cool idea too.

nirvana regained! – yay

Love it!!!! Great detail!

Nice concept, and vey creative. The king is so useless, non?