On September 18th, 2015, two time U.S. Women’s Chess Champion Jennifer Shahade played a blindfold chess exhibition at Ryerson University’s Student Learning Center against Aaron Tucker; both of their moves were translated in poems in real time. You can find a full recap by Joshua Arthur Peter White-Crummey at the Ryersonian, complete with additional pictures plus video (included below here) of the event and interviews with the participants at http://www.ryersonian.ca/blindfolded-chess-match-transformed-into-digital-poetry-at-slc/.
blurred finger or wooden plan
toward necessity beside machine or
grinder apologetically exits deserted spoon
cube burns lock or sketch
active temptation or that grain
any wink the diagonal ownership
sporadically toes bound punctuation, country
hunches core or memorized black
each ownership, the slug, intuition
storms pastoral tooth toward king
Below are some additional pictures of the event taken by Chia Yueh
Many thanks to Greg Lord for all the amazing design work on the site. This project also had a large helping hand from