Chess

Chess is a game played on a board

Where you use wit and not a sword

To slay a king opposing yours

Instead of doing your daily chores.

The queen and rooks and pawns and knights

All run around and get in fights

To prove, once and for all, just who

Has nothing else better to do

Than read a hundred books about

Which piece is best to first move out

Or what series of moves will make concrete

The other colored king’s defeat.

It’s not a skill you learn in school.

It’s not a skill to make you cool

And yet Chess will outlive us all

So grab a board and have a ball!