IS CHESS SIEGE WARFARE ON A CHESSBOARD?

What is Siege Warfare? I heard this once at my chess club. How do you analyze a game from a siege warfare perspective? Des anybody here know?

Please help

No.

It is awfully rare for someone to die at the chess board.

bigpoison wrote:

No.

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I've heard in old movies one of the actors say, "...lay siege to the castle!!..."

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=siege+warfare

Chess is more like a pitched battle in open terrain.  Except the starting positions are fixed.  And the battlefield is barely big enough to hold both armies.   But the idea is to use maneuver and combined-arms tactics (use different types of pieces to support each other) to , well, be a better general than your opponent.

In fact, when I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin",
When I can tell at sight a chasse-pot rifle from a Javelin,
When such affairs as sorties and surprises I'm more wary at,
And when I know precisely what is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery,
When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery
In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy
You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a-gee.

NO!!

BUT CHESS.COM IS A TROLL'S BRIDGE, ON A WEBSITE!!!!!!

Yaroslavl, you have posted here many times that chess is siege warfare. Why are you asking this question?

To proceed to throw abuse at the ones that disagree ?

Chess can be many things to many people. But as an "siege warfare"? Even Tal played fundamentally, positional chess. Heh. "Cold War" chess, if you want t'be technical. Nowadays, one must be versed on an multitude of different openings, nuances in middlegame strategy, tactics(!), and study endgames as far as 15-20 moves deep.

An siege implies constant vigilence. Playing chess, though similar to warfare, requires rest, study and an healthy atitude toward losing. Indeed, failure in warfare is disasterous, resigning and congratulating your opponent in an well played game shows class.

Isn't this the place where you tell everyone to read pawn power in chess and talk about 6 main pawn structures?

Chess is like rocky road ice-cream It's full of nuts and soft squisy easy to crush marshmellows.

Thank you for the prompt.  Not exactly.  This is the place where i tell everybody to digest "My System", by Aaron Nimzowitsch

Does anybody know why GM Nimzowitsch used the phrase, "deus ex machina" in his book, "My System"?

What  does "deus ex machina" mean?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex_machina

Google is your best friend.

It is interesting in my opinion to try characterizing one type of game, siege warfare, another one, a gang style street fight, trench warfare, etc...

What does "deus ex machina" mean in chess?

I believe he was refering to centralizing pieces to bring a quick and unexpected end to the game for your opponent.

but it's been a while since I read that part of the book.

Yaroslavl wrote:

Thank you for the prompt.  Not exactly.  This is the place where i tell everybody to digest "My System", by Aaron Nimzowitsch

For me right now, I think sleep will help more than anything. Fatigue is terrible for chess. But should one learn the 6 pawn structures or My System first?

Did we find out if chess is siege warfare on a chessboard?