Chess and I-Ching

Has any of you ever adopted the I-Ching method to decide a chess move? Let me explain: I-Ching is an ancient Chinese teaching, considered divinatory art by westerly cultures, often used by individuals to make decisions that they would not be able to make on their own.
This is what happens in almost all chess games, you have 2 chances of move in front of you that you consider equally effective and therefore you can not choose properly. In that case, maybe I-Ching could be useful.
After all, many historians believe that the origin of the game of chess is from China or India.

And the I-Ching move selection process is...?

The most widespread method in modern times is the launch of three coins repeated six times, from which we can deduce one of the sixty-four possible combinations, called "hexagrams".
64, tells you anything?
These hexagrams are a kind of oracle, written in a more or less poetic form and to be interpreted according to personal sensitivity.

Do you ever try a simpliest method with a 6 faces die ?

I never tried the I-Ching method in any way.
But i'm skeptical about your proposal. Changing millennial customs is always risky, it would be like proposing to replace the bishop with a Lancelot, or the king with the Pope. You could still play chess, but I fear indignant reactions

Wait, how do you get from 3 coins flipped 6 times to only 64 combinations? Seems more like (2^3)^6 to me. And how do you determine which move to pick in the end? It seems like you end up having to make the choice yourself if, as you write, it is "to be interpreted according to personal sensitivity".

@fpvbmct There's some ritualistically complicated stuff involved here :) The three coins are not interpreted in a series but as a group, so T T H will be same as T H T, thus you have 4 different kinds of groups (TTT, TTH, THH, HHH), called unchanging/changing yin/yang. Then you repeat the tosses 6 times.

This would give you 4^6 = 4096 combinations, but it goes simpler as the distinction unchanging/changing "melts away". To get the primary hexagram, you ignore the unchanging/changing difference (TTT & THH = yin, HHH & TTH = yang), so you have 2^6 = 64 combinations. To get the secondary hexagram you convert changing yins & yangs to their opposites (changing yin -> yang, unchanging yin -> yin). Number of all combinations is the same though instances are different due to changing yins and yangs. (Of course, if you bunch primary and secondary hegagrams together, you get 64 * 64 = 4096 combinations, but I don't know if these are sorted in any way in I Ching).

There's also a simpler 6 coin method, that gives you directly 2^6 = 64 combinations, but then you won't get the primary and secondary hexagrams.

The I Ching has 64 Hexagrams. Each Hexagram consists of six rows, each row can have two states (2 ^ 6 = 64). The states are continuous line (---) and interrupted line (- -). See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching

However, each state can also exist with and without star, with star means it is a changing line. (The I ching is often called "the book of change") So we actually have four states (three coins = four possible states).

---
--- *
- -
- - *

The asker throws the three coins six times - while he does he thinks about the question - the hexagram is built from bottom to top.

Then he searches for the hexagram in the book and reads its text.

Every Hexagram has also six extra texts, one extra text for every changing line.

for the records: ('front' is the side of the coin with the number)

front front back is ---
front back back is - -
front front front is - -*
back back back is ---*

@Faccintopa
Ra8+
Pf7
Le6+
Pf6
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