Game On by Chris Koentges

A group of urban explorers looking for something to do decided to transform entire cities into their playground. Sounds like fun.

I'm a white pawn in a game of human-scale chess, hunched beside a dumpster at the mouth of an alley opposite an abandoned brick tower that is jammed with junkies. The board is downtown Providence, R.I. Yes, the entire downtown. Any moment, my cellphone will ring, and a voice from an art gallery nearby will tell me where to move. An hour passes. The cellphone does not ring.

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Originally appeared in the January 2006 issue of enRoute magazine.
Used with permission.

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