I am writing, possibly a book, not about chess theory, more such like life theory and I want to know who's you and your life vs you and the chess player. An example, for some (myself) holding it together in life and in a chess board is just as fragile as the other. I want to get to know you, the chess player, do you play chess and life as the same? Different? What are the same patterns you see in both life and chess? Has it ever crossed your mind?
Every time I think I'm markedly improving, I make a few humbling blunders. My username should be "Forever1600".
Joking of course since just months ago I was 1300 rapid. But it sure feels that way sometimes!
Joking of course since just months ago I was 1300 rapid. But it sure feels that way sometimes!
Chess kills the boredom of a stale life of a person
oh, I thought that said "prison"
Idk, but chess is beautiful enough to waste your life on
Chess has taught me everything about life (almost). Like anything. Anything is everything. Watch the old Kung Fu TV series with David Carradine. When ever the character has a problem, he has flashbacks to the lessons of his Kung Fu training days. And he would use it to deal with the current situation. Chess works that way for me. Same with any art: ballet, music, boxing (Rocky movies), karate, etc . . .
Chess works in a negative way too. For me, and for the Russians who love chess.
"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 choose to impress upon it. If those two principles coincide and act in the same direction, the game of human society will go on easily and harmoniously, and is very likely to be happy and successful. If they are opposite or different, the game will go on miserably, and human society must be at all times in the highest degree of disorder."
Adam Smith's Essay on Moral Sentiments.
Chess works in a negative way too. For me, and for the Russians who love chess.
"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 choose to impress upon it. If those two principles coincide and act in the same direction, the game of human society will go on easily and harmoniously, and is very likely to be happy and successful. If they are opposite or different, the game will go on miserably, and human society must be at all times in the highest degree of disorder."
Adam Smith's Essay on Moral Sentiments.
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