I did a bit of googling on the subject of chess, music and maths.
I quote from the following web page http://www.edutechchess.com/whychess.html
"Many parallels have been drawn between mathematics, music, and chess. Lasker (1949) states:
Mathematical thinking is generally held to be more or less closely related to the type of thinking done in chess. Mathematicians are indeed drawn to chess more than most other games. What is less widely known is that very frequently mathematicians are equally strongly attracted to music. Many musicians do not reciprocate this attraction, but I firmly believe that this is mainly due to their lack of acquaintance with mathematics, and to the widespread confusion of mathematics with “figuring.”
An intriguing phenomenon that links mathematics, music and chess is the fact that child prodigies have been known only in these three fields. That children have never produced a masterwork in painting, sculpture, or literature seems only natural when we consider their limited experience of life. In music, chess, or mathematics, that experience is not needed. Here, children can shine, because native gifts are the dominant factor. Aesthetic sensitiveness and ability to think logically are certain inborn qualities. How, otherwise, could Mozart have composed a minuet, and actually written it down, before he was four years of age? How could Gauss, before he was three years old, and before he knew how to write, have corrected the total of a lengthy addition he saw his father do? How could Sammy Reshevsky play ten games of chess simultaneously when he was only six?
The reasoning ingredient in a chess combination is always of prime importance, even though a vivid imagination will make a chess player think of possibilities that will not occur to a less imaginative logician. (p. 142)
The above passage indicates abstract reasoning, a generally accepted quality inherent in both mathematics and music, is of prime importance in chess.
thnks bro!!!!that one was really cool....
I play the french horn
Cool a drummer at last, not that I was waiting for one. I took up drumming but was told I have two left hands! So took up the guitar instead. Still no good but at least it's less noisy.
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I make my living playing and teaching classical guitar – or, at least, a large part of my living. Chess and music have some important aspects in common: tempo, timing, and harmony, for example, as pianists Mark Taimanov and Igor Ivanov, singers Emil Sutovsky and Vassily Smyslov, as well as that pioneering pawnpusher and composer A.D. Philador will tell you or, in the case of Ivanov and Philador, might have told you.
You might also confer with (or have conferred with) avant-garde composer, John Cage; Russian conductor, Sergei Prokofiev; violinist, David Oistrakh, and even the Soviet composer, Dimitri Shostakovich.
Paul Morphy, when he was in Paris, often attended soirées by Mme. D'Angely. On one such occassion he was introduced to the Italian baritone, Francesco Graziani who had been taking chess lessons from Jean Préti (the founder of La Strategie). Mme D'Angely persuaded Morphy to play Graziani, spotting him Queen odds with the condition that Morphy sing a duet with him after the game. It's unknown whether they actually sang the duet, but after the game, Graziani said, "if anyone should ask me if I am a chess player, I will reply, 'Oh yes, I sometimes play with Mr. Morphy.'"
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