I had a break for the holiday. Longer than I anticipated, but I am back now. I can finally find out what happened in that chess game…
Beetle's first move is to place Superman in the same square as Ice, thus allowing Supes to save her from the raging inferno. This infuriates the Weapons Master, but it wasn't explicitly against the rules. Ice is burning up, but there's not much Superman can do. Ice has quite the crush on Superman. "Call Me Tora." "Are you married, Superman?" I guess this was before the wedding.
Beetle manages to send Booster and Maxima to the same place, by placing them on opposite sides of the board. Maxima is still principally concerned with getting Superman to father her children. Booster is just being Booster, coming on to Maxima. I'd rather have Booster than Supes. (but Mark is my first choice, of course. Hi, Honey!)
Finally, Beetle plays the Guy Gardner piece. Beetle has noticed that each player has just a few seconds of awareness before being transported, which is just enough for Guy to reestablish his ring connection, and get it back. They can't quite beat the Weapons Master, but Guy does figure out (with prompting from Beetle) how to find the others. And the Weapons Master high-tails it back to the yacht where his partner and the Dominator are waiting for the Green Lantern ring. When the Dominator hears that WM doesn't have the ring, he gets mad, then gets dead. Yes, WM kills him so he can't report WM's failure and ruin his reputation.
While this is going on, Bloodwynd is visiting Max and Oberon, to tell them that the rest of the League has been mysteriously transported away, and that a yacht called "Isis" might have something to do with it. Bloodwynd fights Weapons Master to a standstill, but he still gets away. Eventually, though, all our heroes are rescued and everyone is back in the right dimensions.
But, who is Bloodwynd and why does he know so much? What is happening on Almerac? And will Guy and Tora get back together? Who knows?