It's a phrase: "The only way to get smarter, is by playing against a smarter opponent", which I heard, and then researched; it a chess thing... I evolved the idea, I should admit, I was inspired by another graphic, concerning only the dark heads, which are me and my brother by the way. The letters and geometric shapes represent different, lets say, fragmentations, of ideas and formulations, which me and him have, neither one being perfect, or resembling the other...