What I've Learned From Playing Chess

It's about the King, not the Queen.

It's better to tie than to lose.

There are such things as no win scenarios.

Though Davinci was on to something when he said, "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication," so is complexity.

Even though there are countless paths before me to choose, only one is the best.

People are predictable.

People are unpredictable.

Logic knows no prejudice.

Victory must be earned.

Mistakes are as inevitable as the stars.

War is within humanity.

The lowliest pawn is hardly the lowliest pawn.

Sometimes only a painful sacrifice will suffice.

Creativity trumps logic.

Life is art.

Addiction isn't picky.

People are playing chess every instance of existence.

I'm a lot smarter than I thought I was.

I'm a lot dumber than I thought I was.

I have come a very long way.

I have a very long way to go.

Through defeat comes humility, patience, and strength.

Power is fleeting, but rocks hard while you have it.

When nature calls, nature calls, even in a bullet match.

Life is as confusing as it is clear.

Plans are always guesses, some of which work out.

Hope and ambition take a back seat to wisdom.

Biceps and abs are overrated.

Death and life are forever dancing.

LAG SUCKS!

Nerds are hot.

either your playing too much chess or you lack proper avenues for learning life's riddles me thinks 😁

I wonder if anyone doesn't lack what it takes to figure out life's riddles, don't you, or have you figured them out? Thanks for stopping by and reading! May you win your next game!

why thank you.I have only managed to figure out one of them myself but I believe it to be the most important and that's how to prepare for eternity.may you have many victories.

creativity trumps logic? try telling that to stockfish!

There is hope but not for me.

(my apologies to Kafka)

johnkagey, anytime, and what makes you sure you're right about how to prepare for the afterlife? how do you know you aren't guessing? im not saying you're wrong; just asking how you know you're right.

totalnovice, yes, in the end, overall, my guess is it does, creativity trumps logic that is, though I don't presume to be certain of it, and im not sure who stockfish is but ill go check em out; they sound vulcaney! westofhollywood, i beg to differ. why do you say there is no hope for you? hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all...at least according to Dickinson. and do you mean kafka the philosopher or kafka the villain from final fantasy two?

Stockfish isn't a who, but rather a cold calculating mistress of a machine, punishing any poor soul with an ambitious or creative idea :D 

Lady-Knight thanks for sharing your thoughts...

hahahaha

Wow, I compiled an almost identical list after working 3 months in a bawdy house. Quite remarkable.

There are people in the world named Stockfish, for the record, on the record, there to be verified, so Stockfish is a who, but it also happens to be a game, and what you just said it was.  It's a term used by many people for many things. And telling it to Stockfish would be easy; it would be as simple as saying it in the direction of the software, whether it would recieve the message or not, but given most figure it wouldn't receive the message, what would be the point of telling it to Stockfish anyway?  If you mean to say Stockfish stands as proof that logic trumps creativity, I certainly challenge you to show me proof of that, and the fact that it could likely crush me in a game does not constitute proof of anything, much less that, unless there's proof to the contrary of course. have you any? Is a machine a mistress, and can a machine be cold in the metaphorical sense, or were you meaning cold as in temperature? or were you trying to get at how the machine, the computer, the software, the program Stockfish, shows no mercy, as if that isn't common knowledge given machines have no feelings according to standard accepted thinking anyway, not saying i buy into that, since my guess is the whole universe and everything in it is alive. in short, what's your point?

thats cool  zem! id love to check it out sometime!

If you are a girl accept my friendship.

I'd like to see you do without!

legit on a scale of 1-10 how high were you when you wrote that response :P

karel; "I" isn't necessarily only body. "I" don't need biceps OR abs. ;) and total; im always high on life, to the max, so...to the max is the response to your query. axe, i hear ya.

I understand completely. It's just, you know, imagine there is this plate of deliciously smelling french fries in front of you, and you want to, but you can't, because, well, no biceps or abs. I guess if somebody is willing to help out a bit, but still...

Very interesting, intelengently written and thought provoking. Thanks for sharing.