A surrealist composition built like a stained-glass window thrown open onto a dream. Jewel-toned panes of blue, violet, and amber frame a desert horizon where a wagon and distant riders drift beneath a streaked, fiery sky. Floating just below the window ledge, a chessboard rests on a round blue cushion, its pieces mid-game and untethered from any table — a playful, dreamlike juxtaposition of open landscape and quiet strategy that gives the piece its title.