That praying for the downfall of others is the way.
What can we learn about life from chess?
as a system increases in complexity, it comes closer to resembling reality in total
too close and that system is too complex - you might as well just study reality as is
too far away and its too simple - tic tac toe has only a little to teach you
chess sits in the middle of that spectrum, it has the potential to act as a microcosm to understand what happens at the grandest scale
as above (in the stars) so below (on the board)
What can we learn about life from chess?