While many take full advantage of sleeping in on the weekend, mine starts by crossing state lines to clash plastic chess pieces across a green-and-buff rollup vinyl board. Every Saturday from noon to 3 I settle in with a recurring cast for a game of chess at any one of the six boards that line the front of Antilles Cafe, a Haitian-Dominican hangout in Flatbush, Brooklyn that doubles as the home of OurChess. As the day lengthens, and between moves, a little grease imprints each of my pieces—the residue of crackly griot, pikliz, and tostones. Griot, a classic Haitian dish of marinated-and-fried pork, topped with a tangle of pikliz, a condiment of pickled shredded cabbage, carrots, sweet, and hot peppers. Everyone’s bent on chasing the bag, and plans making it out of the group chat is nothing short of a miracle.…