Chess Club
A "recreational" group dedicated to monitoring rare board states and unauthorized piece movement. We watch the game play itself.
Year's End Protocol
Chess Club
Date & Time
Monday, December 21, 2026
Location
The Upper Dome (All Quadrants)
Attendance
1 attending
The longest night of the year, followed two days later by the year's final supermoon — the Cold Moon, the Long Nights Moon, the Moon Before Yule. The board has been running since January. It has generated 13 full moons, two eclipses, one comet, one hidden planet, one near-taking, and more shifted pieces than we have had time to document. On December 21st, the game reaches its terminal position. On December 23rd, the final piece reaches maximum size and brightness. We gather to close the log, file our final reports, and ask the question the board has been building to all year: what does the game look like now that we have seen the whole of it?
The Longest Dark
The solstice arrives. Minimum light. Maximum board visibility. The year's shortest day becomes its longest night — sit in it.
Full Year Review
Structured debrief: every Chess Club event from February through December. What did the board do? What did we predict correctly? What did we miss entirely? Final anomaly rankings submitted.
The Cold Moon Rises (Dec 23 Preview)
Though the supermoon peaks on the 23rd, it is already enormous tonight. Watch it clear the horizon. The last of the year's three supermoons. The board's final move. Open session: what does 2027 open with?
Full year observation log, warm everything, something to mark the end of the game.