Proteins Play Chess

A week ago, in Surrealist Chess (January 2025), I wrote,

Continuing with the weekly series on AI comics [...] we return to aimless wandering around various topics.

After that post about Magritte, I intended to continue with another artist known for an interest in chess, but I got sidetracked by yesterday's post, The Noblest Prize (January 2025). It featured a video about the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024, awarded:-

half jointly to Demis Hassabis, Google DeepMind, London, UK and John Jumper, Google DeepMind, London, UK "for protein structure prediction".

That amounts to a 25% share for our favorite chess-playing DeepMind employee. While I was working on the post, I started to wonder if proteins play chess. It turns out they do, at least according to AI comics.

'Proteins play chess.'
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In all frames except the upper left, there is a protein-like humanoid or molecule visible in the image. In the bottom right frame, the central, green 'protein' has a pointy protusion on its head. That was a common element of the half-dozen (or so) composite panels that I created.

Even in the upper left frame, there is a rectangular head in the center of the upper left quadrant of the frame -- white face looking to the right, green eye, red hat (or hair) -- with a pointy protusion that is topped by a yellowish Pawn. Is that our missing protein player?