Once again sorry for my English, maybe I used wrong word.
When you have classic chess board, you have letters and number which help you determine each tile (such as C2 for example). Now, I was thinking in this picture flames have the same function (group of flames from bottom and group of flames from left identify tile on board).
BUT NO.
2 reasons why not:
1) quality of painting - many times flame is right in the middle between two tiles and you can't tell where it should belong
2) and more important - groups of flame from top/bottom or left/right doesn't match each other when you look at row or column of chess board tiles. You know, in classic chess board you have for example letter D on top and bottom. Here you doesn't have the same group of flames.
So this is dead end

Still trying to decode flames
