concentration/escapism?

In chess, for example,
people are different.
Focused, immune to the room
surrounding them.
Keeping eyes fixed on the pieces,
realising the importance of every move
they make.
Yet not quite intent:
as we all should be
more often
in life.
Unblinking,
on a different level,
but not escaping, in drinking,
drugs or addiction to fallible notions
Of Love.