Hey, The Caravel! We’d like to challenge you to a friendly game of chess-by-article-headline.

The game is simple: we each take turns playing a turn of chess in our article headlines. To use one of your recent headlines as an example, it might read something like “Judge Who Arrested Ex-President Lula da Silva May Soon Face Him in Brazil’s 2022 Presidential Elections [Knight to F6].”

In this headline, we at The Heckler, as the white pieces, have played [pawn to E4], so the chessboard now looks like this:

How will you respond? Will you go with the French defense? Or perhaps the Sicilian defense? We eagerly await you inserting your move into your next headline!