Checkmate
The hands of time all pointing to where you wallow in defeatYou can forge ahead, but you’d best get used to surrenderingTaking your position for granted, that sixth move is your most telling demiseI’m biding my time, accustomed to mulling over everything in silenceCharging cannons purely a result of my raising politenessScreening horses and keeping Shenhua back will gently conquer your strengthThe 26th move is just scouting the cannon from 5 to 4The skill of the 33rd exchange of chariot from 2 to 7 makes you fear a difficult offense
This bloodless war can only wound prideThe unchangeable rule of winner takes all is no different from realityThe old man holding the birdcage stands to the side to pat my shoulderI guess he must be thinking the same thing as me
Hmph, watch me, my fingers are relaxedWhen the enemy’s nothing to my dragon eyesMy strategy’s infinite, offense like windI enter the palace on a chariot, roll over your dejected face
Control me, my fingers are relaxedMy dragon eyes empty like an enemyI switch hands fast, my momentum’s revolutionaryRunning away is useless, I attack full-force
I face tides to contemplate what is, motionlessly reacting to motionCould the details be camouflaged in the fog between the forest and the mountain?Military movement identical to the orbit of the phasing moon and rotating starsIsn’t military force the weight of nature?At the end, I must devise a strategy for your final surrenderI look hopefully at the setting sun, you bow your head dejectedly awayListen, victory or defeat is a military commander’s constantYou need not take it to heartIt’s just because I’m without equal
Hmph, watch me, my fingers are relaxedWhen the enemy’s nothing to my dragon eyesMy strategy’s infinite, offense like windI enter the palace on a chariot, roll over your dejected face
Control me, my fingers are relaxedMy dragon eyes empty like an enemyI switch hands fast, my momentum’s revolutionaryRunning away is useless, I attack full-force
Watch me, my fingers are relaxedWhen the enemy’s nothing to my dragon eyesMy strategy’s infinite, offense like windI enter the palace on a chariot, roll over your dejected face
Control me, my fingers are relaxedMy dragon eyes empty like an enemyI switch hands fast, my momentum’s revolutionaryRunning away is useless, I attack full-force
Watch me, my fingers are relaxedWhen the enemy’s nothing to my dragon eyesMy strategy’s infinite, offense like windI enter the palace on a chariot, roll over your dejected face
Control me, my fingers are relaxedMy dragon eyes empty like an enemyI switch hands fast, my momentum’s revolutionaryI attack full-force