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The Last Chess Game

Chapter 8 The Pieces Move Again

Word Count: 698    |    Released on: 13/03/2025

oards and shadowy figures. Each morning, he awoke with a sense

d them to a forgotten legend about a medieval king who played a game of chess against Death itself. The stakes were the survival of his kingdom, an

re entangled in was not just Blackwood's doing; it was a manifest

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together the history, repor

ing a live-streamed match, his opponent

inexplicably rearranged itself overni

club's chessboards set up in positions from f

the secret tournament; it was infiltrating the world a

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the 15th century, penned by a monk who chronicled the s

new champion shall arise to challenge the curse. Victory s

d that the curse was nearing its zenith. The time for a final confro

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e challenge ahead, Victor and Cel

ame's patterns and believed there

erground chess community and could gat

als and believed there might be a way to

onfront the source of the curse a

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e the original game between the king and Death was said to have taken place. Inside, they fo

ctor took his place at the board, facing an unseen opponent. The pieces moved as if guided by a

is energy, and the lines between reality and the ethereal blurred. His al

th minutes and centuries, Victor saw an opening. Wi

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bled to dust, and a gust of wind swept through, carrying away t

enturies lift. The global incidents ceased, and the game of chess returned to its

ss others from the grasp of an ancient curse. They had rewritten hist

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