10 Nov 05
Originally posted by royalchickenLove your opponents.
Can someone tell me how to follow the rules of chess in a Christian manner?
You shall not desire your opponent's pawns, knights, rooks, queen, king, and especially not his/her bishops.
If your opponent takes your rook, turn in your other rook.
10 Nov 05
Originally posted by royalchickenUnder Christian rules, the use of cognitive faculties to reason through lines of play is frowned upon; in many cases, it is strictly forbidden. Every good move is a free gift from Jesus Christ. Every poor move is the result of human free will. To win, one needs only play blind-folded whilst praying for the Holy Spirit to guide one's hands. These rules were invoked based on the general opinion that the game was just getting just too damn hard when the taxing process of rational thought was involved.
Can someone tell me how to follow the rules of chess in a Christian manner?
10 Nov 05
Christians favor bishops over knights, except that anti-Catholic Christians favor knights over bishops. A Christian will never promote a pawn to a queen if the first queen remains on the board. Christians also keep the queen at home as much as possible, so she may offer domestic comfort and service to her king. Hence, Hikaru Nakamura's 1.e4 e5 2.Qh5 never would be played by a Christian.
10 Nov 05
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Originally posted by lucifershammer'Christian Logic' is in this case a proper noun referring to the board of which Coletti is a moderator. However, as I am getting tired of saying, logic is content-free, analytic and valueless and thus cannot be Christian (adj).
That depends on whether you're using "Christian" as an adjective or an adverb, actually.
10 Nov 05
Originally posted by royalchickenChristian chess is chess played by Christians.
'Christian Logic' is in this case a proper noun referring to the board of which Coletti is a moderator. However, as I am getting tired of saying, logic is content-free, analytic and valueless and thus cannot be Christian (adj).
Christian logic is logic applied by Christians.
You are correct - logic does not depend on the content - it depends on correct reasoning. Given A, B, and C, can we correctly infer X, Y, and Z?