アナトリーにとっては、初めて自分の仕事を何よりも重視することが出来たわけだが、一方、フレディはその反対で今ではチェスのことなど殆ど頭になかった。そして彼の個人的な絶望から逃れる企ては失敗に終わった。フロ―レンスはアナトリーとの関係が駄目になっても、フレディの元へは戻って来なかった。フレディの脳裡をフローレンスとアナトリーへの復讐の念が駆けめぐる。一方、モロコフは自分の将来のことを心配し、任務に失敗した部下の妥当な処置を考えあぐねていた。
エピローグ：それにしても、二人の関係は終わったのだろうか？ フロ―レンスもアナトリーも離ればなれではあるが、互いに心をかけ合い、これはハッピーな事件だったと思っていた。チェス・ゲームと同様に恋のゲームも様々なバリエーションで駒は打てる、おそらくこれも膠着状態に陥ってしまった多くのゲームの１つにすぎないのかもしれない｡｢それでもなお我々はフリをし続ける。私たちの物語はハッピー・エンディング｣(ユー・アンド・アイ／ストーリー・オヴ・チェス)
彼らの歌が終わったところで、フレディがフローレンスに接近すべく登場。彼女に伝える知らせを持って……
＜ユー・アンド・アイ／YOU AND I＞
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［アナトリー］
君を求め
君を愛していると知りながら
何故に無頓着ていられるのか
説明なんて出来はしない
［フローレンス］
私か馬鹿だったわ
夢が叶うと期待し過ぎてしまっだの
［アナトリー］
こんなに君を愛しているのに何故に動きかとｎないのが
［二人一緒に］
だらだらと長い行列の中で
私は毎日毎晩祈っている
そのうち悲しみに押し潰されてしまいそう
あなたと私
全て一緒に見てきた
互いの心のおもむくままに
だけど私達の場合
無理にハッピーエンドを
装っている
［アナトリー］
尽くすだけ
尽くしてくれた君
でも何放心は
悶々としているのだろう
［フローレンス］
もう振り返らない
もし振り返ってもそれはほんの一瞬だけ
［アナトリー］
君の事、理解してたと言えるだろう
［二人一緒に］
今日聞いていて分かっだのは
もうこの関係に打ち込めない自分
目分に対する間違った批判
あなたと私
全て一緒に見てきた
互いの心のおもむくままに
だけど私達の場合
無理にハッピーエンドを
装ってる
[ANATOLY]
Knowing I want you
Knowing I love you
I can’t explain why I remain
Careless about you
[FLORENCE]
I’ve been a fool to allow
Dreams to become great expectations
[ANATOLY]
How can I love you so much yet make no move?
[BOTH]
I pray the days and nights
In their endless weary procession
Soon overwhelm my sad obsession
You and I
We’ve seen it all
Chasing our hearts’ desire
But we go on pretending
Stories like ours
Have happy endings
[ANATOLY]
You could not give me
More than you gave me
Why should there be something in me
Still discontented?
[FLORENCE]
I won’t look back anymore
And if I do — just for a moment
[ANATOLY]
I’ll soon be happy to say I knew her when
[BOTH]
But if you hear today
I’m no longer quite so devoted
To this affair, I’ve been misquoted
You and I
We’ve seen it all
Chasing our hearts’ desire
But we go on pretending
Stories like ours
Have happy endings
[CHOIR]
Each game of chess means there’s one less
Variation left to be played
Each day got through means one or two
Less mistakes remain to be made
Not much is known
Of early days of chess beyond a fairly vague report
That fifteen hundred years ago two princes fought,
Though brothers, for a Hindu throne
Their mother cried
For no one really likes their offspring fighting to the death
She begged them stop the slaughter with her every breath
But sure enough one brother died
Sad beyond belief
She told her winning son
You have caused such grief
I can’t forgive
This evil thing you’ve done
He tried to explain
How things had really been
But he tried in vain
No words of his
Could mollify the queen
And so he asked
The wisest men he knew
The way to lessen her distress
They told him he’d be pretty certain to impress
By using model soldiers on
A chequered board to show it was his brother’s fault
They thus invented chess
Chess displayed no inertia
Soon spread to Persia
Then west
Next the Arabs refined it
Thus redesigned, it
Progressed
Still further yet
And when Constantinople fell in 1453
One would have noticed every other refugee
Included in his bags a set
Once in the hands
And in the minds of leading figures of the Renaissance
The spirit and the speed of chess made swift advance
Through all of Europe’s vital lands
Where we must record
The game was further changed
Right across the board
The western touch
Upon the pieces ranged
King and queen and rook
And bishop, knight and pawn
All took on the look
We know today
The modern game was born
And in the end
We see a game that started by mistake in Hindustan
And boosted in the main by what is now Iran
Become the simplest and most complicated
Pleasure yet devised
For just the kind of mind
Who would appreciate this well-researched and fascinating yarn
[FLORENCE]
This is an all too familiar scene
[ANATOLY]
Hopeless reflections on what might have been
[BOTH]
From all sides the incessant and burning question:
[FLORENCE]
“Bearing in mind your predicament now —
[ANATOLY]
— what you did then —
[BOTH]
— we’re just dying to know would you do it all again?”
[CHOIR]
Each day we get through means one less mistake there for the
making
[BOTH]
But they know full well
It’s not hard to tell
Though my heart is breaking
I’d give the world for that moment with you
When we thought we knew
That our love would last
But the moment passed
With no warning, far too fast
You and I
We’ve seen it all
Chasing our hearts’ desire
But we go on pretending
Stories like ours
Have happy endings
1986『CHESS』終わり
