Do you think chess and mathematics are related?

yes,99% of the population don't understand either

Ask any mathematician and he'll tell you that everything is math, no exceptions... :P

Max Euwe, World champion was a mathematician.

One stupid but clear-cut example I know of (which is used a lot in chess programs to evaluate king safety) is Chebyshev distance, which is equivalent to the number of turns it would take a king to get from one point to another.

We can't all be as cool as you, y'know.

Also, if you're going to be an asshole, it's *sights

Sorry if I bored you

You are severe

Yes, knights should always face forward.

Says the king of thumbsucking...
(Not saying that it's the wrong kind of thumbsucking, most I actually like, and sometimes it's even interesting :-) )

@Zinsch

This was not the original question :)

Yes, i think they are related to each other. Mathematics increases your Spatial Vizualization Ability. In chess you need that ability. It will increase your level at chess.

Yes, that is what i think 

When the creator of the game of chess showed his invention to the ruler of the country, the ruler was so pleased that he gave the inventor the right to name his prize for the invention. The man, who was very wise, asked the king this: that for the first square of the chess board, he would receive one grain of wheat (in some tellings, rice), two for the second one, four on the third one, and so forth, doubling the amount each time. The ruler, arithmetically unaware, quickly accepted the inventor's offer, even getting offended by his perceived notion that the inventor was asking for such a low price, and ordered the treasurer to count and hand over the wheat to the inventor. However, when the treasurer took more than a week to calculate the amount of wheat, the ruler asked him for a reason for his tardiness. The treasurer then gave him the result of the calculation, and explained that it would take more than all the assets of the kingdom to give the inventor the reward. The story ends with the inventor becoming the new king. (In other variations of the story the king punishes the inventor.)

From wikipedia "Wheat and chessboard problem"

Took him a week?

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I love erikido23's comment.  I am a math major and I am only rated 1300.  Both chess and math help put logic in terms.  Thats all I can think of

I don't

Isn't chess at the core one big algorithm?

Yes I think the two are related.

I think the topic is to broad. Of course chess and mathematisc are related. But, as several people already pointed out, about anything can be seen as related to math, and maybe even chess, in one way or another.

One could narrow the question :

Are people good in mathematics advantaged for chess?