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CHESS LORE
A chess story set in Val Casella
Your grandfather Bruno is dead and the board at home is still set up: nobody could bring themselves to put the pieces away. That is where it starts. Then you walk out, and Val Casella is crossed one square at a time.
You go on foot
Stone villages, mule tracks, a ferry that leaves when it is full. Houses can be walked into, and people have something to say before they have something to play.
Everyone can do one thing
They say it before sitting down, then they do it. Ottavio answers instantly and every move of his takes two seconds off your clock; the Abbot knows the first twelve moves by heart.
You set the rating
What you are worth, or three questions about how you play if you never had a number. The ladder is built around it once and then holds still, so you can feel yourself climbing.
There is no release date yet.
© 2026 Federico Vellani