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A long-haired cat with dense fluffy layered fur sits upright on a wooden spindle-back chair in close-up, round face set in a stern look, eyes narrowed to thin slits with large dark pupils, ears upright and angled slightly back, long whiskers fanning out, short snout and faintly wrinkled nose, fur at the mouth and chin a little damp and matted. An 8×8 chessboard fills the lower foreground with Staunton pieces: white king, queen and rook clustered on the left near the cat’s chest, a black knight set forward on the right. Shallow depth of field holds the head and the front of the board sharp against a dark background of soft shadow. Chiaroscuro from the upper left lights the bridge of the nose, whiskers and fur and drops deep shade under the chin and around the pieces. Black-and-white from charcoal to bright highlight, mid-gray in the fur and chair grain, faint haze off the focal plane.