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Narrator: Why is chess so hard? Maybe the answers lie within me. Maybe I just need to let go, relax, and let my instincts and subconscious speak.
<<Meditate>>
Narrator's Subconscious: Knight to G-4
Narrator: That's not even a legal move.
Narrator's Subconscious: Okay, hold on. How do the pawns capture, again?
Narrator: Man, Obi-Wan was full of crap.
{{title text: You know that 'sweep the pieces off the board and see it in your mind' thing? Doesn't work.}}
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