Photos by John Jackson, Maarten van den Heuvel and Yanni Panesa on Unsplash

Dragon Breathes Fire Along The Diagonal -Hamlet Chess Haiku

Variation of The Sicilian Defence played in Elsinore Yesterday

Dane and Swede play chess
Dragon breathed fire along
Board diagonal

In the dragon variation of Sicilian defence, the dragon is perceived as breathing fire along the diagonal. Photos by John Jackson, left Lou Levit, right, from Unsplash
Photos by John Jackson, Michał Parzuchowski on Unsplash and NGO TUNG on Unsplash

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