In Competition No. 2449 you were invited to provide an Alice in Wonderland-style conversation between two chess pieces, either in prose or in verse.
Le beau valet de coeur et la dame de pique
Causent sinistrement de leurs amours défunts.
It was this wonderful image of Baudelaire’s that suggested to me the notion of a conversation between chess pieces.
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