How would you define chess??

Originally posted by schakuhr
it's an art

Originally posted by Dragon Fire
I think the wife would be happier if I was searching for porn.

I don't think the game of chess is an art, but what people make of it and do with it.
The game of chess itself is just a game, held together by rules, but because it's such a complicated game, some people can study it all their lives to try to beat another person who's studied it all his life as well, and make some money over it.

On Dragon Fire's post:
The fact that I'm even in doubt if she would be or not, is already a bad thing.

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Chess is the immortal and universal game. Chess is life.

"Playing chess is like looking out over a limitless ocean; playing checkers is like looking into a bottomless well." ~ Marion Tinsley

Originally posted by Dragon Fire
Chess is war!

Yes O Yes

and as my fortune cookie tells me,

If you don't attack, you don't win.

Originally posted by Shamash
Yes O Yes

and as my fortune cookie tells me,

If you don't attack, you don't win.

I've heard that chess is a battle and go is war.

That's from go players, of course.

Originally posted by bill718
I'm in a light hearted mood tonight. So here is a fun one:
How would you describe chess? I would label it:

"A really interesting, sadistic little game"

Would any other lables fit? )🙂

A game with 32 pieces, 16 for each side, in which the goal is to checkmate the opponent's King using various tactics and strategies

😉

"Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency" (Raymond Chandler).

Chess is Challenging,Heartbreaking,Exciting,Stimulating,Sensational,this is why it is called,C.H.E.S.S.??😛

Originally posted by dzirilli
I've heard that chess is a battle and go is war.

That's from go players, of course.

Bobby Fischer told Boy Scouts chess is like boxing, it's knowing how to punch and when to duck.

Battle or war, grandmasters like Reti, Saidy, and Kotov have defined chess as a contest between two ideas.


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Chess - As best as I may see

An illustration, a shifting representation of logic, guiding the principles
of a pair of grande designs. Where the imbalance of human
philosophical predilection erodes logic's hold on, equilibrium.

-GIN

For me chess has always been the game in which your intention should be to win your opponent.

Originally posted by petrovitch
"Playing chess is like looking out over a limitless ocean; playing checkers is like looking into a bottomless well." ~ Marion Tinsley

very good 🙂