Is Chess a Beautiful Game ?

Jaas Same could be Said about the other gender if u imagine them without Skin and only think about the biological Reason we like them.

I think you can Take everything and Look at it in One Way so it Looks ugly

oh really ?.....i cherish my youth and you cant have it....so nananana boo boo. and maybe we should test how good gravity is and drop that stone on your head....now go away 4ever u icky old man !...

That i-file, get it away from me, my eyes are bleeding!

Personally I feel that chess is just a game. Whatever we find chess to be, it's only because it because chess reveals that part in ourselves. If you don't think chess is beautiful indian1960, so be it. But I sure as heck hope you like it.

akim48 wrote:

Personally I feel that chess is just a game. Whatever we find chess to be, it's only because it because chess reveals that part in ourselves. If you don't think chess is beautiful indian1960, so be it. But I sure as heck hope you like it.

Isnt that a contradicto in adjecto

*googles "contradicto in adjecto"*

Elaborate please

If Chess reveals a Part in ourself its Hardy just a game.

But seriously i See more in it than just a Game.

You say you fail to see the beauty in an endeavor where one side often loses . (there are draws and stalemates.) To answer this question more fully, we need to at least partially define the nature of beauty and the nature of competition.

If we can say that beauty is something that the observer finds pleasing on an intellectual and/or emotional level, then isn't an unexpected combination as beautiful as an unexpected but pleasing series of notes in

a piece of music?

The aesthetic of competition is a little more difficult to define. If you believe there is nothing pleasing in an endeavor that contains any disappointment or discomfort, then yes, chess is not beautiful.

On the contrary, if you believe that these things are inevitable in life, and that their inclusion in a work of art - or a game - makes them truer to life experiences, then they can contribute to beauty. The Japanese believe the warrior is beautiful because he is going to die, or that chery blossoms are beautiful becausethey only last a short period of time.

If you think of a competition to get the bid to build an airport, for example, many beautiful designs could be created. All but one will remain in the realm of ideas.

Why Even spend 1 Minute of our beautiful Time learning, if its just a Game???

The last column of the matrix contains extra information present in a FEN string.

int pos[8][9];

/* columns 1-8: 0:empty, 1:pawn, 2:knight, 3:bishop, 4:rook,
   5:queen, 6:king; positive:white, negative:black; */
/* column 9:as explained in the comments below */
  
pos[7] = {-4, -2, -3, -5, -6, -3, -2, -4, 1};  /* Black kingside castling available (0/1)*/
pos[6] = {-1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, 1};  /* Black queenside castling available (0/1)*/
pos[5] = {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0};  /* pending en passant file # (0:none, a-h:1-8)*/
pos[4] = {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0};  /* 50-move counter #*/
pos[3] = {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1};  /* current move #*/
pos[2] = {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1};  /* side to move (white:1, black:-1)*/
pos[1] = {1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1};  /* white queenside castling available (0/1)*/
pos[0] = {4, 2, 3, 5, 6, 3, 2, 4, 1};  /* white kingside castling available (0/1) */

Fair enough TetsuoShima, let me try to rephrase it. Chess is a game in that it is a bunch of abstract rules made up by people; that it's form. However, it's function goes beyond that in that it reveals what we already have in ourselves. Was that a little less contradictory?

Oh wow, that stuff is way beyond my horizon man.

I now know what Indian1960 means by feeling sorry for the losing side, I'd prefer it if you would call that type of stuff 'elegant' instead of 'beautiful'

'elegant' is a pretty good way to present very complicated stuff anyways, it reminds me of math classes in university:

'Professor X found an elegant way to derive formula A from formula B, he divided both lids by (1-x), takes a negative logarithm and multiplies by the square root of i.'

Or as it would sound to me: formula B -> gypsy magic -> formula A

Ah, most certainly.

yes

yes, even more than my ex girlfriend

can everyone please join my group best of chess? Everybody can be admin.

Stop spamming your group...

i just want people to join.

i only have 9 memberers.

Indian1960 says she doesn't like it when she brings a loss on someone.

I assume she doesn't feel sad about a draw or even losing a game. But what if your opponent feels the same way ? Then winning from him doesn't hurt him too , so no matter the outcome , you can always be happy. You can then call it a happy game.