An extremely complex composition of overlapping backgrounds and foregrounds, which plays with the depiction of time. Seemingly capturing a moment, it infact is full of hidden elements which describes a period of time, during which two men are playing chess in Central Park, New York. Buses turn corners in the distance, pedestrians cross roads, the thoughts of the players are visible by the use of symbolic surrealism.
Neate is drawing parallels between the game of chess, proxy wars and organised conflict