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n chess, the King is the most This painting depicts two chess
important piece. When he is players: one is Satan who appears
Itrapped, his whole army loses. The arrogantly confident, and the other
King can move one square in any player is a man who looks forlorn. If
direction. Satan wins, he gains this man's soul!
The main goal of chess is to checkmate
your opponent's King. The King is not According to legend, an international
actually captured and removed from chess master Paul Morphy visited the
the board like other pieces. But if the Museum once and after studying the
King is attacked ('checked') and painting, noticed that the arrange-
threatened with capture, it must get out ment of the chess pieces were
of check immediately. incorrect. According to him, the devil
If there is no way to get out of check, who thought he was winning, was in
the position is a 'checkmate,' and the fact not winning! The man, who
side that is checkmated loses. Check- thought he was losing, could actually
mate thus signifies a final defeat or still win the game! His King could still
deadlock. move out of danger. Later on, he could
checkmate his opponent, which
There used to be a painting in the would make him the winner of the
Louvre Art Museum in Paris, France, game!
called "Checkmate". It was painted
by Friedrich Moritz August Retzsch. He called the curator and they
It is now in private hands after being determined that the title didn't fit the
sold at Christie's in 1999. scene, because the forlorn-looking
player actually had the ability to Once in a while, we feel like we are
defeat his opponent, though he backed into a corner and ready to
obviously didn't realize it. Morphy give up. But when those times come,
exclaimed, "The painting is a lie. His we need to remember that we always
King can still make another move!" have one more move. But the only
[I heard this story and after doing some way to discover that move is to accept
investigation, I found that the original the help of the “Master”. He is the
story was published in a chess One Who knows us even better than
magazine in 1898/99. Various sermons we know ourselves. He knows who we
were based on it afterwards. See are, how we feel, and what we are
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ng-chess-with-the-devil/ Even in our darkest hour, when there
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Master can come and show us a path
The Lesson to be Learnt to victory. There is always another
Every day we are in a battle for our move for us!
souls. The devil makes a move, we
make a move. Back and forth we go. - A little boy with two fishes and a few
Sometimes we seem to be winning and
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sometimes we feel like we are losing. Continued on p. 2