Guide to the album:
1-2. A classical opening fantasia followed by the stormy march of the pawns.
3. Here comes the story of the Mechanical Turk, an XVIII-th century chess-playing machine that was eventually exposed as an elaborate fake (after 50 years of glory and victories over Napoleon and Benjamin Franklin among others).
4. This is a dancing ode to Kaissa - the Goddess of Chess.
5. Musical reflection on Bobby Fischer's last words. The scale is oriental, like the origins of chess
6. When a chess player thinks about a ‘bad’ bishop, he imagines the bishop blocked behind pawns without operational space.
7. Then comes a trippy pastoral epic dedicated to our favourite chess grandmaster, Elisabeta Polihroniade,
8.. The gypsy charade.
9. Now you learn when, where and why to move the rook after castling.
10. A moment of groovy tension under the pressure of Time.
11. Short piece of irony called Deep Fritz (another version of Deep Blue which was the first computer ever to defeat a human player - G. Kasparov in 1997).
12. Bonus track. played by violin virtuoso Flora Pop.