Russell Pine goes to the café every morning to enjoy his time chatting with Sam Tesh, the café owner, a friend made over the past twenty years. So when Sam asks a favor, Russ reluctantly agrees to play in a chess tournament. But the contest isn’t the real Russ finds himself the focus of a secret courtship in words and pictures left for him to discover each morning, leading him to the In a café full of young and beautiful minds, who is looking at the graying chessmaster? A story from the Dreamspinner Press 2013 Daily Dose package "Make a Play".