Source: see below
The above is the opening of "the Chessmen," a short story by William G. Shepherd. It was published in The Best of Omni Science Fiction vol. 2 (1981), with the painting by Rene Magritte.
It is a story of a special set of chessmen where a set of chessmen - Soviet-style, with workers vs. capitalists - take on (in effect) a life of their own so that the capitalists always win, no matter what the skill of the players, with interesting results.
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