Chess

A strange thing to talk about i suppose but i do find it interesting. A very old game where the only female gendered piece is the strongest. The king might be the one you have to take to win but the queen is the most versatile and the most dangerous whilst the king is the most fragile; the female:male dynamic i suppose is a bit like in Macbeth, action vs inaction, potency vs stasis. On a side note i suppose i also like the imagery of bishops only being able to move diagonally, unable to defend itself from attacks right next to it and criss-crossing across the board sticking to one colour of square like it doesn't accept the philosophy of the other and thus refuses to go there (also they are more fun simply because James Joyce makes the bishop in Ulysses criss-cross around Dublin - simple things...). i like the social mobility the pawn is afforded, an american dream of a piece before America was even populated by what we would now call americans.