as opposed to...?
the way horsey goes bouncy
I appreciate chess mostly because I consider it to be a fundamentally Existentialist game. Every move has weight and creates the conditions of the game.
Just as in life, chess, as both a science and an art, reflects the existentialist principles "Life is what you make it" and "Life is what you make of it". It's beautiful in the way there is this ebb and flow and every move that is made creates what may follow from it.
(Edit) Chess is what you make it, and what you make of it. It is a manifestation of existentialism, hitherto the last great movement in philosophy. Postmodernism, which followed existentialism, was not a movement, and is not coherent. Postmodernism does have something to say, but I consider chess to be an existentialist game, and that's what I love about it.
"Once it's laid it's played" as they say in cards. And it's the same in chess. Every move you make in chess matters, just as every move you make in life outside of chess matters.
Every move changes the "board" inexorably and unalterably. It doesn't matter if the move was played with foresight, prowess, intent, thought for the future, etc., or if it was made on some whim or subconsciously or in any other way. No matter what you do, your action(s) inevitably change the world. It's in this way an existentialist game.
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Just as in life, chess, as both a science and an art, reflects the existentialist principles "Life is what you make it" and "Life is what you make of it". It's beautiful in the way there is this ebb and flow and every move that is made creates what may follow from it.
(Edit) Chess is what you make it, and what you make of it. It is a manifestation of existentialism, hitherto the last great movement in philosophy. Postmodernism, which followed existentialism, was not a movement, and is not coherent. Postmodernism does have something to say, but I consider chess to be an existentialist game, and that's what I love about it.
"Once it's laid it's played" as they say in cards. And it's the same in chess. Every move you make in chess matters, just as every move you make in life outside of chess matters.
Every move changes the "board" inexorably and unalterably. It doesn't matter if the move was played with foresight, prowess, intent, thought for the future, etc., or if it was made on some whim or subconsciously or in any other way. No matter what you do, your action(s) inevitably change the world. It's in this way an existentialist game.
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