Don Quixote's Strategic Thinking

Both chess and the ingenious gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha involve strategic thinking. The would-be knight errant often plans his "adventures" with a kind of chivalric strategy, like we would plan moves in chess.

However, his strategies are often misaligned with reality, leading to comedic or tragic outcomes.

Folks, doesn't that somehow sound familiar to all of us chess players?

Un Quijote en ajedrez (chess graffiti art)

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Illusion vs. Reality: Chess, like Don Quixote's adventures, involves creating and navigating through an iffy, incalculable and complex world with its own rules. Don Quixote often lives in a world dictated by the chivalric novels he admires, much like a chess player lives within the constraints of their thinking inefficiencies and possibilities of the chessboard.

Bucharest's Strada Arthur Verona Don Quijote metaphor

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The Knight's Journey: Knight moves in an L-shape, which is unique and can symbolize the unpredictable or knight-errant nature of Don Quixote's travels.

The knight’s tour throughout the 10×10 apartment block in Life a User’s Manual, by Georges Perec

 That's all, folks!