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What is chess?

What is chess?

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A game.

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Chess is too abstract to be a science,too unforgiving to be a game,
too violent to be an art,and too inactive to be a sport.

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Originally posted by aspviper666
Chess is too abstract to be a science,too unforgiving to be a game,
too violent to be an art,and too inactive to be a sport.
I think the question was: What is chess?
Not: what isn't chess?

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Originally posted by invigorate
I think the question was: What is chess?
Not: what isn't chess?
I don't believe in Chess. I don't think it really exists, it was invented by humans. I am an ascacchist.

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Originally posted by invigorate
I think the question was: What is chess?
Not: what isn't chess?
Well, I certainly narrowed it down.

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Chess is how you write ssehc backwards.

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Originally posted by invigorate
I think the question was: What is chess?
Not: what isn't chess?
When all that is impossible is eliminated, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. (Paraphrasing Sherlock Holmes.)

aspviper666 has taken us closer to a definition that the rest of the posters thus far.

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I read (I believe it was in this forum) that chess is a puzzle for two people to find the solution by playing.Or some idea like that.I think that's close to defining it,other than my standard definition of it being a kid's war game.