Each game of chess
Means theres one less variation
Left to be played

Each day got through
Means one or two
Less mistakes
Remain to be made

Not much is known
Of early days of chess
beyond a farely vague report.
that fifteen hundred years ago
two princes faught the brothers
for a hindu thrown.
Their mother cryed
for no one really likes their offspring
fighting to the death.

She begged them
"Stop this slaughter" with her every breath
But surely 'nough one rather die.

Sad beyond belief
She told her winning son,
"you have caused much grief,
I cant forgive this evil
thing you've done."

He tried to explain
how things had really been, but
he tried in vain
no words of his,
would satisfy the queen.

And so he asked,
the wisest men, he knew a way
to lessen her distress.
They told him he'd be pretty certain
to impress by using model soldiers,
on a checkered board
to show it was his brothers fault
they thus invented Chess.