Chess is war, and the players are the generals.
Chess is a mistress to your mind, that beguiles you with her beauty and mystery. Once she seduces you, there is no way to get free; you just spend the remainder of your life trying to understand her secrets.
I think that's the deepest answer so far.
Chess is like getting the hugest moaner.
Chess is a kind of poetry, written in the language of logic by the hand of mathematics.
I can look at my pieces in the middle game and I can tell how I'm doing by how "pretty" my side looks. If my pieces are beautiful, I am usually on my way to a win. If they are ugly, I am losing. I'm really not all that good of a player (it hurts to admit). Like Salieri in Amadeus, I can see great beauty in chess but I am cursed never to create it myself.
Chess is agony. Chess is ecstasy.
Oh, and can you tell us then what is not so pretty about this equation?
It is an ultraviolet catastrophe? ;-)
Right. Just checking...
wow nice equation ha ha ha ,, anyway chess to me is enjoyable it takes me away from my daily life of problems and what not a hobby one in which id have more fun if i could play better and really i could sit around for hours with a couple of beers some music and a friend really you know what i mean
Its a great game that teaches valuable life lessons
In Chess for Zebras, Jonathan Rowson said something to the effect that chess is so interesting because of the properties/characteristics of the game COMBINED WITH the properties/characteristics of the players.
That said, people can exist without chess, but chess does not exist without people. Therefore it appears to be some kind of exercise in creative human mental computations, but I don't know. I am NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO expert.
chess is changing- there is nothing to describe chess, other than a wooden board with 64 squares. it is perhaps the most different and changing game- no two positions occur twice
A fun game...
Chess is a game, the format of which serves for people to engage in the desperate human impulse to momentarily conquer that which will never be finally conquered, a set of additional and familiar dimensions, simultaneously subjective and objective, as elusive as the ever receding horizon. For some, the days follow the game...for some, vice versa.
Chess is the multi-tool of mental maintenance.
"If chess is a science, it's a most inexact one. If chess is an art, it's too exacting to be seen as one. If chess is a sport, it's too esoteric. If chess is a game, it's too demanding to be just a game. If chess is a mistress, she's a demanding one. If chess is a passion, it's a rewarding one.If chess is life, it's a sad one. " -- Unknown
By the way, I like the responses in posts #3,4 and 10-14. Great!
chess is all about playing guild wars...
The black and white is the weave of Space and Time. That's why we all gravitate to it.
Didn't Bobby Fisher say,
"Chess is life."?
Hi guys,
Chess is a game, which is very much 'puzzle-like'. It is frequently a hobby.
Watch your backrank.
"where a gnat may drink or an elephant may bathe." indian proverb on chess.
One of many equations on the origin of human life in the universe.
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