The error of the retained image

1. Chess board
2. Square on a chess board
3. Player viewing a square on the chess board
4. Player viewing that square on that chess board not as it is in reality
5. Player viewing that square on that chess board not as it is in reality, but as it was one or more moves ago

—in this manner, we fail to adapt to the changes, the current reality, the progression of one moment after the previous—

—superimposing memory over our own optics, we remain imprisoned in our idealization of the past.

6. Player viewing that square on that chess board not as it is in reality, but as it was one or more moves ago, makes a move which acts upon this conception, or fails to anticipate a perspicacious move by the player's opponent
7. Player viewing that square on that chess board not as it is in reality, but as it was one or more moves ago, makes a move which acts upon this conception, or fails to anticipate a perspicacious move by the player's opponent, and, in so doing, loses the game.

"Tell them what you did"
Zoom. Let me make myself clear. Clarification. Cleverness. Wistfulness.