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AARON TUCKER

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The Rusty Toque | Issue 11 | Poetry | November 30, 2016

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Description
The ChessBard is an app co-created by Aaron Tucker and Jody Miller. the ChessBard inputs the algebraic notation for a chess game in .PGN format (digital file format for archived chess games) and the Chessbard outputs a poem. The poems are based on 12 source poems Aaron wrote, 6 poems for the white pieces, 6 poems for the black pieces: there is a 64 word poem for each colour’s pawns, knights, rooks, bishop, queen and king. When a piece lands on a square it triggers a word from the source poems and the translator compiles them together and outputs a poem.

A text version of the ChessBard, titled irresponsible mediums, will be published by Bookthug in Fall of 2017.  The text will collect Marcel Duchamp’s chess games and translate them into poems; the collection will also include an introduction from two time U.S. Women’s Chess Champion Jennifer Shahade.

DEEP THOUGHT VS COMPX COMPUTER – ORLANDO, 1988

WHITE

blurred product mechanically or closely 
blazes brazen base onto 
this radar carves spoon 

sealed interest sands toward 
a menu, worm around coherence 

a stage, any ruined cell 
grinds copy within screech, organ 
eases apple and textbook 

single lock or the highrise 
necessitates beyond joint consideration 

Where is spooned sibling?
below vault

instrument

BLACK

Where is blazing estimate?
What is central centre?

each violin, each diagonal and 
the punctuation (punctuation) this callous
drug 

any resigned twist strategically 
ostracizes drug, any headline 
reproduces or beaches robust root 

halved forever and callous move 
owns and contains knot 

any hour and instantaneous hour 
ownership owns and roots knot 

the resignation within

DEEP THOUGHT VS CHESS MACHINE - ALBUQUERQUE,  1991

WHITE

something closely and skillfully traps 
machine, liquorice instantaneously produces and carves copy, worm and knot 

that apology, it across sound 
or the sketch and matter 

that interest passively deserts outside 
passive sand across unsightly base 

grinder likes and screeches circlet 

sphere sketches path onto textbook 
that highrise curiously seasons bog 

composed injury any crowned reassemblage 
glues increasingly and cripplingly, technician 
purposely tempts circuit over 

BLACK

memorized wink among diagonal or 
blessed centre or a cord 

the elder certainly short-circuits path 
or container and blessed permanence 

suburban wrinkle and washed path 
rises drugged remainder above king 

broken twist the callous fortune-teller 
simplifies cremation, slope and remainder 

joint isolation and vein 
busts vein, crawl onto woman 

isolated dream scientifically and fanatically 
covers beefy vein or 
beefy boundary, each genus 

Which riot stains?

DEEP THOUGHT VS REBEL – EDMONTON, 1989

WHITE

mechanical something and each finger 
instrumentally questions (questions) cubed woman inside coherent seashell warily
apologizes productively 

menu immensely deserts or copies 
spoon importantly deserts deserted consideration 

each textbook, the sand moves 
or observes it and coherence 

brazen path, lyrical instrument 
brazenly considers waist the silicon 

limit twists waist or interest 
temptation harmonizes

BLACK

made-up centre among forgotten diagonal 
estimates punctuation (punctuation) or automaton or 
weed blesses insult upon mime 

suspended wood washes each hour 
possessed database beneath hooded exit 

path darkens whale or blessing 
and memory that memory or 
permanence darkly storms drugged crawl 

this headline, fortunate beef and 
move acceptably cans binary bust 

nonstop 

AARON TUCKER'S first book of poetry punchlines was released by Mansfield Press in Spring of 2015. As well, he is the co-creator of the ChessBard, an app that translates chess games into poems that can be found at chesspoetry.com; a text version of the app, irresponsible mediums, translates all of Marcel Duchamp chess games into poems and is forthcoming from Bookthug in 2017. His current project, Loss Sets, translates poems into 3D models which are then printed with a 3D printer. His collection of essays Interfacing with the Internet in Popular Cinema was published in 2014; his forthcoming The Weaponized Internet in Popular Cinema is forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan in 2017. In addition, he is a professor in the English department at Ryerson University where he is currently teaching essay writing and digital literacy to first year students.