Here is the youtube url:
youtu.be/9u33jKFNjcgI'll edit this post to add a short text version of the video. Depends on my schedule, and how/if the forum allows editing of your posts (not sure why it wouldn't).
Suffice to say, there's a yin and yang to the universe that deals with the heart's pursuit of holiness and the brain's pursuit of enlightenment.
Efficiency, justice, and freedom come into play, but what are the conditions for the nuances of these? For instance, if the king seeks liberty as a primary right, then what conditions go with that? Well.. liberty allows righteousness via individuality.
Essentially, the knights represent the righteousness of king liberation. They specialize in complementing pawns, which in turn are the most telling indicators of positional integrity. (bad pawn formations have vastly diminished endgame potential.)
This is like a master philosophy that's been modified to inspire chess appreciation.
Um .... h4-h5, sac, sac ...mate.
1. e4 e5 2. Bc6 a6 3. Qf3 h6 4. Qxf7#
It's not letting me edit it anymore (that I'm aware of at least), so I'll just post a reply to my own thread. Basically.. when chess became popular in England, jousting was a big sport. Chess is a LOT like jousting.
The king is riding his horse, covered in armor, and wielding a lance. The bishop, rook, and queen are the lance's tip, shaft, and handle. The pawns are the armor, the knights are the horse(s), and the king is the rider.
Rather than get 1 very brief shot to psych out your opponent, chess grants multiple imaginary theory battles. Players can savor the taste of battle longer.
(rather than spam my own thread, since i can't edit my original post any more)..
there's plenty of room in my youtube video's description section where i'll be posting my future insights as they come to me.
for instance, an interesting idea is that maybe each side's king is worth 60 points, and that the only way for the pieces to achieve any value at all is to have that value distributed/infused into them. imagine a pawn having a potential value of 1-8, depending on its activation. the goal then could be for the king to reach a value of 0, where it is then assumed that since the king has shed itself of value, that it would then make no sense for the opponent to even consider it a logical target. imagine if even the slightest effort to spend any moves checkmating your opponent were directly met with immediate and instant material gains. that would be one hell of a defense.
Interesting ideas. But... your analogy about jousting (for instance) is based on the historically contingent fact that the pieces are named and modelled after the members of a mediaeval court. There is no need for this to be so. There's the Bauhaus set, which reduces the pieces to their geometrical move values, or the Man Ray set, which frames chess as the totality of culture (the arts and sciences). And Chess960, which displaces the king and queen from their central positions and does away with a symmetrical disposition of the pieces, thus (arguably) also undermining the interpretation of chess as representing the power of the state.
Which is not to say that such ways of thinking can't be fascinating and even fruitful. But I wouldn't take them to be based on anything innate to the game.
Personally I think the interpretation of chess as a war game is a misconception. In actual combat, chance and limited information play crucial roles. Chess is a completely deterministic game of perfect information. It is nothing like war, although it is a struggle for power and territory. I prefer the Bauhaus interpretation for its purity, and the Man Ray set for its beauty.
Chess is war strategy. War is Liberty vs Death. There is a good reason the King, like all true civilization, is topped with a Cross and not a minaret.
Maybe you can take your racist bullshit and shove it up your ass. That would be nicely philosophical.
Agree with Pickles, gtfoh.
Doesn't chess come from the East, actually?
The game of Chess is racist for having a Cross on it now?
"Every opinion I don't like is wayyycist."
Who started that meme anyway?
"Left sees racism everywhere." -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAsecZeqDW0Also, many many races live under both a cross and a minaret, nobody is buying this "you dont think like i do therefore u a a a a a waycist #$%@ @#$@ [insert unspeakable internet outrage]." Saudi Arabia chopped 37 heads off in public and nailed a journalist to a cross and left it on public display about 96 hours ago. Saudi Arabia is not a race, they are a barbarous regime, so perhaps all of the boys crying wolf are historically and inherently opposed to learning about the world outside of outrage mob theory funneled through one or two two-dimensional information outlets.
Also who is Ellis' sidekick wano following him around with ninja-stars of insults?
