never ending game of life

The comparisons of life & chess have been made many times, every master has something to say about the symmetry of the two. As far as I know nobody has taken it to the extent to say the pieces represent a function or tool in our lives in detail. I'm not talking about just a few moves or a tacic, I mean all of it. The board is purely a playing field, a grid, a space, a mind, a society. The pieces can be such things like religion, family, the internet, music. Every great game of chess I've played has been that becuase of the multiple levels its being played on, battle of minds, tactics, style, character. Life is made up of atleast 2 realities, the reality of being the creater and the reality of everything created. When you finally have your pieces, comparisions, battle ground and all, you then have to act out what you've seen so far like doing a chess tuition module or test, from there act out some moves with someone you know to be a supurior oppenent and you will you should be able to see persisly how complex life is but in a different way, also you'll be able to uncover truths otherwise unable to see. Chess holds a power important to the human race, our minds have not been evolving as we are to believe.

So many of you have just glanced over this, please send me your comments, anything. Some of what I wrote may just seem like a riddle, well that's only down to your state of mind. if I said to you the way we control or perceive belief (religion), language, and Trade are heavily connected to pawns. We focus so much on the things we have rather than how we use them, how we control them. If I had to lose control of how I spoke I would make I do so in a way beneficial to me, like a sacrifice in chess. The sacrifice may open up my control of food & drink or reality itself (if reality was a castle).

This is something I've been working on (and off) for 10 years, I want somebody to try and prove me wrong, I want someone to show doubt. I'm so sure of the power this theory has that I believe it can be an essential tool to opening up the human mind.

I wouldn't say you were wrong.  I see the similarities between the 2.  The difference is that Chess has rules that cannot be broken.  Life has boundaries which can be stretched. 

I think the key word in your post is control.  Chess teaches us to try and exert as much control as possible over our own lives.  Maybe that's wrong, Chess doesn't really teach us anything, I guess it's down to each persons personal interpretation and what they choose to take from the experience. 

There is also a dark side to this as I'm sure you're aware.  If you fall into that you may be consumed with anger (when defeated), become manipulative (in actual life), a control freak, self centred, ruthless.  Like a Sith.     

OK, how about this....  Every chess game is a model for a story of real life.  If that's true, then you could write a short story that corresponds to each move.  This is something I have thought of doing, but have not yet tried, partially because it would be a LOT of work.  But it is certainly possible to do it.  Pieces represent people, squares can represent a variety of concepts.  When a piece moves to a square, it shows up in the story (or real life) as that person (the piece) taking some action that corresponds to the event or location represented by the square, possibly interacting with other pieces/squares on the board.

I think, JediJoseph, that you are making a claim like this.

That was how I begun thinking about it but a year or so ago I realised I was on the wrong path, I was asking the wrong questions, I wasn't looking at the representations of pieces right, their power, position and ability, with that I saw that for someone to have corresponding attributes in some way they would have to be very one dimensional which people aren't. A person's actions are from a long line a lot of variables which are from a thought process, what I'm looking at is that thought process. Any thought that transcends to a person interacting with their environment has boundaries, which means most thoughts have boundaries, the only thoughts that don't are of the true essence of spirituality. That thought process to act upon things is decided upon by a battle of chess. We don't always have full control of that thought process due to drugs, distractions and centuries of programming. I believe that this model can be used for everyone as the pieces on a chess board are representative of things like language, trade, food & drink, belief, etc. For that reason there has to be a force, act, tactic, strategy against all of us. Though we do not act like a collective all the time, we still have a natural resistance to some of these things which is why you always find glimpses of the truth everywhere in art, belief, energy source, etc., which in turn are being used against us. We are led to believe that we the human race is on a course to destroy itself, as if we've all made a concious decision to do so. That would mean some if not all of us have characteristics in our DNA that instinctively want to be inhumane, which is impossible, that would be like a cat instinctively wanting to be an ant. It would take thousands of years to imprint anything close to that in our Edna which has been done... but it still requires, shaping, control, modifying all the time. Material objects are very easy to analyse in full as they are not living, they do not evolve and don't have a soul making them easy to control. When you know how something works in full you know how to use it in full. The mind is different only because we evolve and we have a soul, making it near enough impossible or just very hard to control & destroy all of us.

I really hate the word conspiracy theory, some of my work includes conspiracy counter theories which most of time lead to some undeniable truths. When a collection of information leads you to a question, that question alone contains some truth, for example Darwin's theories leads to me ask the questions, If we evolved from reptiles then what has happened on the other tree of evolution? Where or Who are the species comparable or greater than humans physically & mentally? The public doesn't like conspiracy theories as it not mainstream, its looks like its from unsettled sources to us. Most science is based upon a limited number of proxies passed on and/or manipulated over the centuries, it would be very easy to prove that science is unsettled too. To get the most accurate interpretation of a fact you would have to study across the board fairly (science, religion, philosophy, conspiracies), I use all of them as a consideration when rationalizing.

I cannot think of any other game that has touched upon every aspect of life one way or another throughout time. There have always been kings & viziers, there has always been belief or religion as its mostly used, there have always been groups, tribes, societies, the numbers change but the structure remains pretty much the same. There are so many things that have remained in our understanding of life & lives that chess as a game has woven through. Of course there are other games which have a strategy level as high as chess but none have abstract pieces like chess does. Christian & Muslim religions alike have all banned chess at some point for using real people as representations of kings, queens, etc. which begs the question, If chess didn't grow from religion then where did it come from? The only information I have catalogues the origin of chess back to early merchants & tradesman, but why would they create a game which has no reflection or sign of them? Rationalizations on early human societies are very very very hard to find, why? The mountain of questions I had about chess kept dotting back to history, real life, then to mine.

Anyone that has been playing chess for a while would agree chess has a strange simple complexity which is incomparable, I truly believe is life really is like that and we continue to make it even more complex but it still remains for what it is... life (chess).

You're right Kurt it has required a lot of work. I have found that we instinctively put belief in thoughts without making sense of the thought first, one of our greatest strengths & weaknesses. Chess helps structure your mind naturally for this human instinct, to win you must make sense as much as possible before moving. The player with the most awareness and belief wins in chess, a person with a strong sense of both has very good control over their life.

@Jedijoseph:Your personality type must be INTP (Introverd Intutive Thinker and Perceiving)

I like to think that chess is like life because there are endless possibilities with each move or action taken. Everything in life is a choice except that you are born and what gender you are, although the latter might be argued by some. Likewise, in chess you have no choice over your color and your style of play will usually be aggressive or passive (male/female).