Game Six is an eleven-minute work about post-truth politics, chess, language and illusion. It manifested as a 128-minute ‘Event’ in Camden on 9th September 2021 and as the below film which was previewed at the Edinburgh Poetry Festival.

Each verse corresponds to one of the forty-one moves made by Bobby Fischer in game six of his 1972 World Chess Championship match against Boris Spassky. Each verse is thirty-two syllables, echoing the verse form of The Bhagavad Gita which is a key influence on the piece. Chess grandmaster and philosopher Jonathan Rowson has called it ‘intensely perspectival, abounds with signifiers, but pertinent, with an underlying pulse of truth seeking and even a hint of transcendence.’

Other comments include ‘Game Six is incredible, it's unlike anything I've seen before’, ‘truly kaleidoscopic’, ‘Adam Curtis but contemporary hauntological’, ‘a work of art’, and ‘it's hypnotic, and a lullaby and chilling’.

Game Six was created with Studio Sutherl&, Keepitvisual and Modern Activity.