User blog comment:FortunePayback/"Queen has pawns"-Cinder Fall/@comment-23790511-20140605160348/@comment-74.134.150.40-20140606015311

I agree with you on this. I don't think Cinder is the 'Queen'. I'm wagering a guess that this game is between Ozpin and the nameless narrator voiced by Jen Taylor - who I think is this 'Queen'. They certainly seemed to be debating the future of the world...

Narrator: "Even the most brilliant lights eventually flicker and die. And when they are gone... darkness will return. So you may prepare your guardians. Build your monuments to a so-called free world, but take heed; there will be no victory in strength."

Ozpin: "But perhaps victory is in the simpler things that you've long forgotten. Things that require a smaller, more honest soul."

It's obviously foreshadowing. But the way it's worded leads me to believe that the Narrator is speaking of/working with/likely leading this 'darkness' and is issuing a challenge to Ozpin. Hence, chess: the metaphor of war.