Wow! A friend of mine going to like this wallie of yours.
She likes picture like this. (a bit gothic feeling)
Turning all the "white chess army" into red makes the wallie looks not so plain....^-^...
I think if you have a nice font, you should put but it is not easy to match a good font with this kind of background
(checker box background)...^-^...
For my suggestion, it would be nicer to have a 3D font for this kind of bg.
Hope this helps you a bit although it is not much ^-^
Cya! again.
Bye!