15 Feb '08 20:25>2 edits
Petrovitch said (in another thread)
The game of chess is not about checkmate or attacking the king; it's about finding the beauty of solving complex problems.
I find this statement very interesting but with due respect cannot agree.
Chess, it seems to me, is about winning and losing. It's a game afterall.
Anything else, e.g. rather abstract concepts like beauty, is secondary. It may well be that this is what maintains our interest in the game but without the competitive aspect there is nothing else. No context in which this 'beauty' may arise.
So I think anyway.
Any thoughts?
The game of chess is not about checkmate or attacking the king; it's about finding the beauty of solving complex problems.
I find this statement very interesting but with due respect cannot agree.
Chess, it seems to me, is about winning and losing. It's a game afterall.
Anything else, e.g. rather abstract concepts like beauty, is secondary. It may well be that this is what maintains our interest in the game but without the competitive aspect there is nothing else. No context in which this 'beauty' may arise.
So I think anyway.
Any thoughts?