The 'Pointlessness' of Chess

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 You see, that is the meaning of life; the thrill and excitement and entertainment of discovering something new and possibly amazing.Discovery and pursuit for happiness are the meaning of life. From simple coincidences such as that one, which can make a person laugh, to the Apollo lunar landing which made billions of people look up at the sky with awe, and wonder what else waits to be discovered in this world and in other ones. The meaning of life is in the discovery of new things, from a brilliant work of art to a wise chess move. People who believe in the pointlessness of such things will never accomplish them, and will live their life in misery. pointlessness (the person) is not such a person, he/she started a large debate and made many people read his/her writing, and even this provides a feeling of accomplishment, for he/she will look at all of these posts and say proudly, "I made this happen." and even that is part of life's meaning. 

Offered for your reflection:

It's all fun and games until you reproduce.

Then you work hard to guarantee the reproduction of your offspring.

The it's all fun and games until you die.

Chess falls into the "all fun and games" category.

David

Chess is excersise for the brain. nothing pointless in that. I find television to be pointless, though at times it serves a purpose.

You are confusing two things: the point of a chess game is to achieve victory; for the player, however, the point of playing that game is to figure out how to do it - a skill that can be extrapolated to other areas of life. As a game, a thing in itself, chess is perfectly self-contained and therefore does not lead to any goal outside of itself (one may call it pointless). As a skill, it leads to all kinds of interesting things. I find that it helps my driving, for example, not to mention tennis - another perfectly pointless thing. Methinks, only things that are perfectly pointless within themselves are perfectly beautiful, because they point to something outside of themselves.

Life is a game, related in one way or another to chess. But life is lived very immediate, so you must know of the incontestable point I speak of to live after the immediate life (life on earth). Chess is a game in life, grades, intellect, self gain, and anything else chess can give you are all things unimportant, don't think I'm trying to say chess does not help those who seek help from chess, it does, but those who know the truth will also know that the help chess can give you is irrelevant. That is all I'm trying to say.

DaPharaoh I also have a question to ask you, why in one of your earlier posts you claim that life is not in existence after death. Then in another you claim the main purpose of life is to worship God, worshipping God is so that you may receive life after death.

Why single out chess?  You could put almost any noun in its place and make the same nihilistic argument.

If you're in to that sort of thing, anyway.

It is not just chess, but after all. We are on chess.com. I could put many things as its place because many people believe many false things.

 I am still waiting for a response from Pointlessness to this... and I thought I would bring it back up in case he missed it.

Don't feed the trolls please

Life is a dance and we are simply the dancers.  The world is a big sandlot and all I there is to do is go play.  Anyone who takes life too seriously is only ignorant about life. 

I think you are very mistaken if you think there is anything except helping others, love, and god that is more important in this life than intellect. By admitting that chess helps to improve intellect you admit that chess is one of the most important parts of life.

 I am not mistaken. Love for others, especially God, is what is more important than anything. Intellect is only what God has allowed you to understand about this world. Or to think you understand ;)

On the contrary, I am gaining time. I am here to play chess... Why else? Yes I do like to express my views on chess so I can (hopefully) make people aware of how pointless chess really is, so that they may enjoy this website more maybe, or maybe quit chess entirely, it does not matter to me as long as they are with Christ.

 Ah so you agree with me good. So now you understand I assume?

Do not play games with me Phelon.

Well you kind of repeated what I had said so I assumed you had seen the light and were agreeing with me.

the point of life is for you to survive long enough so that you maybe can find a mate and produce an offspring so that you can pass on your genes. :)

 You say Intellect is what allows us to understand the world, chess builds the intellect and helps us understand the world better. ergo chess is useful and not totally without a point.