Either there's a gap in your logic or I'm not following you. Chess is devoid of emotions, so trying to use emotions to connect music and chess is faulty, in my opinion.
Here's what I think you're trying to say, and it is a statement that *is* an important insight, in my opinion:
All the deeper arts and skills can be divided into two components: theory (intellectual knowledge) and fine-tuned ability gained from experience. One can't be substituted for another.
Some examples:
(1) photography
Intellectual component: f-stops, color theory
Ability: focusing without thinking, automatically recognizing good composition
(2) chess
Intellectual component: opening names and moves, book-learned heuristics
Ability: subconsciously-learned heuristics, deep lookahead ability
(3) music
Intellectual component: reading music, music theory, scale fingerings
Ability: playing the desired note without thinking, recognizing a rhythm and melody that would fit well
(4) martial arts
Intellectual component: names and motions of kicks and punches
Ability: muscle training that will allow you to stretch as desired, ability to automatically place a kick where you visualize it
(5) math
Intellectual component: memorized integral tables, memorized constants
Ability: automatically equating a graph with an equation or vice versa, easily associating a differential equation with a verbal statement
Hello all:
I have just had an exciting revelation that I would like to share with the chess.com community. Let me first begin by saying that I am fairly experienced in the world of music, and although I may be a little beginner in the world of chess, I feel like I have just discovered a link between the two subjects.
Music (I've played violin and piano, by the way), is usually defined as technique-based in the beginner to amateur level. Correctness of pitch, notes, rhythm, phrasing, etc. and all that good stuff is called technique. However, what separates professional artists from amateurs (usually) is their ability to link emotion with the music. Professional artists are usually able to express emotion better than amateurs. While there are a few pretty good musicians out there that are extremely good at technique, yet not very proficient at the linkage between emotion and music, they are EXTREMELY rare. Such examples include: Arturo Michelangeli (piano), Jascha Heifetz (violin), and me, believe it or not. Although I've often been praised for extremely good technique (not at the level of Michelangeli and Heifetz of course!), I've usually been unable to link music and emotion together. This barrier has prevented me from placing in national competitions, although I've done pretty well in state competitions.
On the other hand, chess starts out with something called tactics. Tactics are forks, skewers, pins and other cool things where you can gain material or force checkmate. Usually, beginner to amateur players need to practice these things as they aren't very good at this stuff. However, what usually separates the professional chess players from the amateurs is something called positional chess. Somehow, people are able to make a great move just by evaluating the overall general position. Things like rook on the 7th file and isolated pawns are some things in the territory of positional chess. However, there are a few rare people who have not understood positional chess and relied and tactics throughout their career, yet are still considered great chess players. An example? Mikhail Tal.
So what can we get here? First things first, chess and music both begin by a technique based study. However, there is a next level in chess and music where things get pretty controversial. There are many different ways to express emotions (This place sounds angry, because there is a forte, but it also sounds sad, because this piece is in A-minor. What should I act like?) , just like there are many good candidate moves when playing positional chess. (Well, this move opens the file, yet when I play this other move, I can make my opponent's pawn structure weaker! What should I do?) Lastly, there are just a few oddballs that don't want get caught into the controversial demilitarized zone but they make themselves famous for their great technique and no understanding of the level above them.
Thanks for reading this enlightenment. Give me a comment if this changed your perspective on chess! I hope it did. And if I misunderstood what positional chess meant, give me a shout-out in the comments below, too. Good day to y'all.