Hello everyone,
I would like to ask the Lichessians about 'what has chess given them in life'.
For me, chess has given me an opportunity to showcase my talent skills by improving in it. It has also given me a medium to test my intelligence.
Now, what about you guys?
Feel free to share your views.
Edit: What has chess given 'to' you in life
I mistakenly wrote 'on' instead of 'to' in title and now can't change it.
Chess brought me into the world of computers. (Or is it computers that brought me into chess?) Chess and computers are one and the same.
Chess gave me an art and a model of the world. A MODEL OF THE WORLD. And a model of learning.
Chess is the model to other arts like MMA/UFC.
Truly,
"All the world is a stage and all the men and women merely players." - Shakespeare.
Chess is a little stage that contains the whole world.
Yahoo chess is one of the pioneer of online communication, back in the analog telephone modem days.
Chess sparked the pioneer into artificial intelligence back in the vacuum tube age.
I believe chess have given the computer the GUI, the graphical user interface, the mouse.
Instead of N-KB3, Knight to King's Bishop 3, you "grab" an icon with a mouse and move it on a "board".
I can go on and on and on.
I still play chess, face to face, in a "brewpub", using Meetup dot com, with a Jerger wooden wind up clock. I still kick it Old Skool.
www.meetup.com/Alexandria-Pints-Pawns-Chess-Club/Chess has given me an understanding of what Communism and Capitalism, The Cold War, is all about.
The man whose public spirit is prompted altogether by humanity and benevolence, will respect the established powers and privileges even of individuals, and still more those of the great orders and societies, into which the state is divided. . . .
The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government, that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it. He goes on to establish it completely and in all its parts, without any regard either to the great interests, or to the strong prejudices which may oppose it. He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess‐board. He does not consider that the pieces upon the chess‐board have no other principle of motion besides that which the hand impresses upon them; but that, in the great chess‐board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might chose to impress upon it.
- Adam Smith