Although many of my blog posts are off topic to chess, they are related, and hope to over the next few months return to these concepts in direct relations to chess.
Chess likely originates in India, and is mentioned in Vedic literature, and has spiritual connotations, which I plan to write about soon, many times the pieces were Deities, military pieces, or representing faculties of the soul and mind. The Ahimsa Principle can be seen as a chess strategy, with the goal to minimize harm, depending on how you understand the meaning of the chess pieces and what it means to win.
Consider the evaluation of a position, in comparison to deciding important decisions for society, and using a governing principle like Ahimsa to determine the overall evaluation, like the noble goal of minimizing harm. Hope to in the future release research and interpretations of spiritual interpretations of the meaning of chess, one which historically in the origins of the game was the Ahimsa principle.
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Chess likely originates in India, and is mentioned in Vedic literature, and has spiritual connotations, which I plan to write about soon, many times the pieces were Deities, military pieces, or representing faculties of the soul and mind. The Ahimsa Principle can be seen as a chess strategy, with the goal to minimize harm, depending on how you understand the meaning of the chess pieces and what it means to win.
Consider the evaluation of a position, in comparison to deciding important decisions for society, and using a governing principle like Ahimsa to determine the overall evaluation, like the noble goal of minimizing harm. Hope to in the future release research and interpretations of spiritual interpretations of the meaning of chess, one which historically in the origins of the game was the Ahimsa principle.
However, also currently just using LICHESS to host my blog, as LICHESS has a very nice blog hosting service.
Which openings best exemplify Ahimsic principles? The Exchange French? The Exchange Kings Indian?
@BuftonTufton obviously the OP could give a better answer; however I don't think he means choosing openings according to the principle. Ahimsa is a goal not a means to an end of choosing this or that chess opening or decision in life or in chess. You want to find the root of himsa or rather understand what causes it in the world. Why are you making certain decisions in your chess games? Based on unconscious principle of violence, metaphorically "killing" the opponent? No, that mode of thinking, that train of thought, will not yield fruits either in the chessgame or to your own mind (the pleasing of which is the aim of our chess playing, inter alia). Find out your "weaknesses" when you are analyzing your chessgames or "life" games -- pay attention to your thought processes and if you see or feel some faults, try to be enlightened, literally: to (en)lighten yourself, your load mentally.
@BuftonTufton - Ahimsa would not apply to any specific opening or tactic, but a totality of examining position. In the original game of chess, the pieces represented either spiritual forces or faculties of the mind and soul, so Ahimsa would apply to an overall balance of the position.
Kingscrusher uses the concept - 'weakness of the last move', but every action has an equal and opposite reaction'.
More referring to a method to visualize what the pieces represent, and a way to understand the meaning of what all the pieces are doing in totality. Once you can conceptualize the pieces acting together as a unit, and than look at that as a unified force, the Ahimsa principle would apply to all positions, and be a tool of evaluation.
Hope to go more into this, first with a historical analysis of the history of chess, and what the pieces represent.
Thanks for joining the conversation @volitionwill
Kingscrusher uses the concept - 'weakness of the last move', but every action has an equal and opposite reaction'.
More referring to a method to visualize what the pieces represent, and a way to understand the meaning of what all the pieces are doing in totality. Once you can conceptualize the pieces acting together as a unit, and than look at that as a unified force, the Ahimsa principle would apply to all positions, and be a tool of evaluation.
Hope to go more into this, first with a historical analysis of the history of chess, and what the pieces represent.
Thanks for joining the conversation @volitionwill
@BuftonTufton Generally for modern chess the pieces just represent geometric patterns, and the rules of the game and strategy are purely based off the geometric patterns of how the pieces move. Each person is free to interpret the meaning of chess for themselves, and has little consequence for play if a person believes the pieces represent some greater meaning or no meaning at all. Like teaching kids, some kids see a family, a nation, a sports team, an army,..., doesn't matter, you can just understand the geometric patterns of the pieces.
But in original chess was likely some form of divination and had spiritual implications, where there was some meaning to the pieces and what the greater position meant, as a priestly game, as a form of divination, communicating with the Divine, or to help people with difficult decisions, possibly also a form of ancestor worship.
So Ahimsa would be a method of understanding the meaning of the working of all the pieces in totality, and giving that spiritual meaning. For practical play, can benefit your play for evaluating positions, and piece coordination, and the greater balance of the position, and tradeoffs where options have a cost / benefit analysis.
I hope to cover this more in future essays, starting with a history of chess.
But in original chess was likely some form of divination and had spiritual implications, where there was some meaning to the pieces and what the greater position meant, as a priestly game, as a form of divination, communicating with the Divine, or to help people with difficult decisions, possibly also a form of ancestor worship.
So Ahimsa would be a method of understanding the meaning of the working of all the pieces in totality, and giving that spiritual meaning. For practical play, can benefit your play for evaluating positions, and piece coordination, and the greater balance of the position, and tradeoffs where options have a cost / benefit analysis.
I hope to cover this more in future essays, starting with a history of chess.
DR Martin luther King JR was a christian and based his princples on christian value check your facts and who really is A GOOD PERSON?
@Coachcheckmaster1 Check your research, can share links, did not say Dr. King was a Hindu, just that he based his protest methods on Gandhi and the ahimsa principle. Did not mention the term good person, but you could say based on the ahimsa principle a good person is one who limits the harm they do to others, but should also include the positive they do for others.
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