Historically speaking,i would suggest that most world-class mathematicians have been average chessplayers,but chess is a mathematical game nevertheless!
Do you think chess and mathematics are related?
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Nov 28, 2012
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Chess may be closer to music: brain scans certainly reveal a strong correlation between the two.
Chess is "part Art, part Science, part Sport," GM Boris Gulko, Lessons with a Grandmaster, (2011). Direct quote, p. 17, (I believe).
This topic has been beat to death in the forums, who cares if Math is part of that compendium. Let the poor guy rest.
Great photos of fish, and flying cats, in any case. 
May I ask you all.. . . What is math for you?
Most will assoiate Math with Numbers, one reason being that the first thing you learn (know) about it is Arithmetic (sum, rest multplication...radicals). Then if you keep on studying.you will come across algebra, geometry, calculus, series,. . .and some more. . . all, I mean "all", treated with numbers and figures
This may help in forming a good and straight way of thinking that will help in studying chess. . .but are not necessary to play chess.
What we all forget is that there is a way of thnking called Logics (Some say it is part of Philosophy, some others say it is a Scince by itelf).
Guess you all know what I refer to. . .
No the silly:
"cats are animals"
"men are animals"
"cats have ears"
"men have ears"
.....so "men are cats"
I man serious things like:
"if at 5000 ft altitude I find a fosil"
"either someone droped a fosil here"
"or there was water here in old times"
Some think that Logics is part of Math. . .In that case I would say that Chess and Math (Logics) are akin.
Well, then, you must be really good at chess!
What's your favorite deciduous hardwood?
Nov 28, 2012
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#267
Math is in search of his x, who seems to have run off somewhere or with someone.
Nov 28, 2012
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#268
Ziryab wrote:
Math is in search of his x, who seems to have run off somewhere or with someone.
or gone off with the y.
Yiquan?
_yiquan_ wrote:
bigpoison wrote:
Well, then, you must be really good at chess!
What's your favorite deciduous hardwood?
oh musclewood definitely. I love how it feels when you stroke it's trunk.
So, you live in the U.S.? Or, do ya'll have hornbeam in Romania nowadays?
Ya' know, those damned trees throw sparks when you run a saw in 'em?
Do you agree ?
What does that mean? As complicated as it seems it all means nothing...We're going round in circles.
It is a key formula for imaginary numbers
An imaginary number is a number whose square is less than or equal to zero. For example, sqrt{-25} is an imaginary number and its square is -25 .
Nov 28, 2012
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#274
Tantale wrote:
Do you agree ?
Complex exponentiation and the analogy between circular functions and hyperbolic functions leads to the formula :P
I hope the teacher knows your in there!
Our teacher died a few years ago.
Oh i'm sorry!
That is correct, 1 is not a prime number. Neither is 0.
But you posted Euler's Identity which is exactly on point regarding the relation of chess and mathematics.
You could akin mathematics to anything,even taking a dump
Why do they call it "take a dump" when actually you "leave a dump."
The one thing I never expected to see on chess.com...