Finding What Already Is: The Metaphysics of Chess

Is chess just a discovery, or has it always existed as a hidden aspect of our universe?

Have the games that have been played in chess already been played the very moment the universe came to exist? If we could generatively play out every single chess game and possibility, then does it not stand to reason that these games are already there?

There is a Library of Babel project that exhausts every single character combination out there. So in essence, the library of Babel contains every book that was ever written or every book that will ever be written.

So expanding this into a metaphysical type of interpretation. There exists a realm/domain that contains every chess game that has ever been played or will ever be played. Every opening innovation that has ever been discovered or will ever been discovered. This plane, or reality, is not physical. It cannot be touched, tasted, or seen. It is beyond our senses. However, when we play a game of chess, we are interacting with this realm of existence.

My metaphysical interpretation may seem like hocus pocus...but there are many ways of looking at reality...some of which yield the same results or are equally valid.

Newton and Einstein interpret the universe differently. In some respects their interpretations agree... and in other cases Einstein happens to be more correct.

Interpreting a realm of combinatorics in which everything that will happen is already there is not a vice as a purely metaphysical interpretation.

So chess knowledge and advancement is discovering what is already within this metaphysical realm. When we play a game, it is basically making the invisible come into being. We are traversing this realm and decoding one small aspect of it.

Well, people may say I need to lay off the coffee and come back to earth, but there is nothing wrong with a more romantic metaphysical interpretation of the world. This mystical vista can add a sense of awe and wonder, and it is certainly thought-provoking.