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It is just a random thought of mine that I want to share. I always saw chess as a war board game and that was what made me excited to learn chess when I was a kid. Today, after playing a game suddenly this thought came to my mind.
It seems that each chess rows held unique importance and reflect the step by step progress one make in life or soldiers in battlefield. When a chess piece stays on the first row of the board from a player's perspective at the beginning of the game, that is the starting row. A fledgling that has yet to prove their worth, a new recruit fresh out of the base, a fresh graduate that just got their first job. Compared to the second row pawns, they are even less in worth even though have great potential.
Then when a piece advances to the second row, they become an average worker. The last line of defense in the battlefield.
To the third row, they become the elite of where they work. This is where most people wanted to go. The starting line of a brilliant career. Only when you can get to third row that you will achieve something. Of course, knights have this privilege from the very start. They are knights after all.
The fourth row, this is the front line. Where things got heated. Chances to get merits are great, the probability of dying is great too.
The fifth row is for battle hardened veterans who have survived an onslaught on their battlefield. The spearhead of the army. The decision maker for tactics.
The sixth row is when a chess piece become a trend setter. The role might be subtle, might be obvious, but the threat it imposes to the opposite site is ever presence. All the army's strategy might be decided by the strategic position of the chess piece in this row.
The seventh row is the elite of the elites. The one percent, the position where the heavyweights like successful rooks and queens goes. The place where the king have to go to lead the battle personally when the front line did not go well.
And then the eight row, the last of the journey, the goal of every peasants(pawns). This is the line achieved by the winners in life. Their every move can decide the life and death of nations. Your king is in grave danger if your opponent can step in this line.
Alright, thank you for reading this nonsense. Have a good day.