What is your REAL LIFE defination of chess?...from GM Carls Parroph

i am so blank abou this

weed for nerds?...what the heck does that means?

real life definition of chess?

these GMs are weird.

IM jonathon rowson says 'What is chess?' is a philosophical and impractical question.

damn right.

Thats so true...chess is a misterious game despite its the most porpular game played in the world

Wo die Worte enden, beginnt das eigentliche Schachspiel for itself, with its own and special character. Only who plays this game understands what I mean. Peter Fläschner, Hamburg, Remis in 66 Zügen gegen den Vizeweltmeister Tigran Petrosjan in Hamburg 1970, Simultanpartie. -

Chess is compulsion, the art of the science of pure logic. More or less : )

Weed isn't addictive enough. 

The definition of what chess is, depends on why you play.  Probably most people don't know why they play, and most probably just feel it...compelled.  Its like bike-riding.  What does bike-riding mean?  Depends on why you ride the bike.  For transportation?  For fun?  For X games (competition/adrenaline/skill)?  For me:  I say chess is a form of Masochism...painful and blissful at the same time; and therefore, similar to other skills that require blood, sweat, and tears...and I think its an interesting psychological event that compells a person to surrender to the training/activity itself...like Bruce Lee said, "indifferent to life or death; winning or losing", getting into that twilight zone...Zazen...  Chess is mental kung fu. 

"Wo die Worte enden, beginnt das eigentliche Schachspiel" (from the Candellight quote above)...translation: Where the words end, the real chess begins...

you just blessed this topic with your masterfull ideas...thumbs up friend!