Life is a chess game and the chess games we have played are related with our personal life.

  As it is in a chess game,the good opening and start in life is of great importance. The better chess players have learned many good openings and always can use one or another to start a game,as in life the opening is one,at first.You cannot take a back as in chess is allowed,but you can always try to find a path to start form the beginning.The difference is that in chess the opponent is the one how has to allow you the take back ,but in life mostly is up to you.

 The most frequent mistake of a beginner is the well learnt opening and the bad ending.It's difficult to go out of this doom circle.And the only thing that helps is to follow your path till the end and to provided your ending on your way,no matter you lose or win the game.Things in life are almost the same.The one who follows his path and believes in hmself, is the one how has the better option to win.I could say,failing to find a plan to win,is failing to win the game at all.If we don't have a plan to provide something good in life or to forfill our ideas,the end would be tremendous for us.

  A game of chess can teach us how to be relentless till the end.In life we sometimes get lost in the middle of our paths,because of the changing of priorities.We often abandon our ideas of that reason and we lose the oportunity to see what is able to come out in our life paths finishing the started.

  I could say we play many chess games in our lifes and win only these in which we are persistant till the end.

I find similarities ''in'' the board ,too.The way we move,the paths we choose to provide our plans,the confidence we show in our tactics....all these are related with the way we lead our life too.

Nane wake up or sober up. Chess is only a game. You will not get far in live with reasoning like that.

Finding some similarities and discussing it in public doesnt mean I am not a realistic persone.Chess is fun,but you can drag out some tips about the person you play with by his way of playing,as its obvious form my comment above.If you disagree with my opinion,please post some arguments to make yourself explicit.

Nane, try as I might, with my ADD and stuff, I couldn't read more than the first paragraph of your initial script. Sorry dude/dudette but I still think your are heading for the great abyss...

Things are simple for me Luke.I ve just tried with this topic to provcate players to post some similar ideas.If any,feel free to submit them..and everyone.

from the 'street' to the 'office' people are making 'moves' so in that sense i agree however since life is not a game even though we sometimes treat it as such.. i forgot my point. 

imho it is better not to assume that one can learn something of how their opponent behaves in life as a reflection of how they play chess. chess is to be played and life is to be lived. my zero point zero two 

My point was that you can learn about main characteristics and behavior of the guy/gal you are playing with.The type of game he/she playes(defensive or offensive)shows his/her attetude in some ways.Comment this Vonlupe.

i agree with your statement but think it unwise to assume that a game reflects a persons behaviour is what im saying. to a certain degree you could extrapolate whether or not they are conservative or risk takers but that doesnt necessarily mean that they will be conservative or risk takers in life. hmm

I like your topic, and agree with you quite a bit. Since I've started to really play chess, I think ahead more in life than I used to. I dont give up as easy, and I react less, and think more. Not everybody will will see things this way. Thats ok too.

In short, no.  While chess is a very complex game, it is limited in so many ways.  To simplify life into the scope of chess is ridiculous.  I'll agree that chess can teach you patience and analytical skills, but not much more.

1. All chess games begin the same way.  Nothing significant in life does.
2. Chess pieces are limited in how they move and the space in which they may move.  We all do not have the same attributes with which we go about life using.
3. The goal in chess is to win via checkmate.  Goals in life differ from time to time and from person to person.

4. Chess is a game of perfect information.  That is all.

The list goes on, but I'd rather not.

 I'm sorry Nane but I think you're deluding...!  I'm a very aggressive chess player but that doesn't make me an aggressive person. It's true some of us get into the game more than others but that doesn't reflect our lifestyles. If these days you're feeling like your life resembles the way you play chess, then I suggest you lighten up a bit & have a good laugh with the forum "Chess Addicts #9"

about statement made in the title of the thread:

The ontological implications of every point made in it put so great a burden on the semantic resources of the english language that; flexible though those semantic resources are, I venture to express my fear, If I might be allowed to be so bold as to do so, that they would not prove strong enough nor flexible enough to survive the burden under question.

Translated into one possible ideolect of a hypothetical person who, perhaps unlike me, is in a habit of putting things bluntly, that would read:

False on every count.

Ever since I started learning more about chess, I have been looking for more ways to establish outposts. For example, I have been pushing my postbox out of my house ( read my territory ) further and further into the median strip ( read the postman's territory ). No defense from him really, by local government law he has to put my mail in the box and not chuck them into my house. I have also been establishing outposts to encroach on my neighbour's property - I put my clothes line nearer his property. Again no defense - clothesline are not deemed part of my house and therefore not required to keep within a certain limit from the boundary. Now I am trying to teach my cat to "do its business" in my neighbours' gardens. As for bishops on long diagonals, I am tuning my garage and TV remotes to penetrate my neighbours' RF controls. Wow...chess is Life. So true !

As the americans say (or used to say?) - you just made my day!

bollocks, on both counts.

I am a 1.e4 player as white but against 1.d4 I almost always play 1..Nf6.  And next year I am adding Reti to my repertoire as white in serious play. [This year I am reviewing it...  meaning building my repertoire of responses to openings black can transpose a reti attempt into.] Thus, next year I'll be playing half my white games open, and half hypermodern. So what "type of game" do I play?????

Of course that old stupid and false cliche can come to your faux-rescue - "well, with women, you never know, do you?"

[the second count on which I say bollocks is "Comment this Vonlupe". If you want only Vonlupe to comment then send her/him a note/message/email/phonecall/text/telegram/postcard.]

It would be too direct to say that a chess player's style reflects his way of life; a passive player is a passive person, etc.

The discipline of study is its best attribute.

If you were to compare it to other games you'd see that along with practice and play chess has an element of study and theory that is singular.  How many books are there, comparatively, on checkers or euchre?

Chess players take pleasure in tough thinking or the benefits of tough thinking.

well Nane, since you've gone all quiet, I guess we can call it... CHECK MATE!

(hence the comment: life=chess) lol

As i havent been in here for much time recently,I wasnt able to read your coments..Ithink most of you took me very wrong..as i was saying that you cant separate the person from the player..one soul,one thinking.If someone plays defensive mostly ,it doesnt mean he is passive in life,but it shows,perhaps that he's not a risky person..(an example)

1.All chess games start the way you choose.You can start a game with one and the same opening(fav one),but to continue differently at some part of the beginning,as it depends on your opponent moves too..the analogy in life is the same..you are not isolated from others .

2.Pieces are limited in movement,as we are of our skills..but as you can play thousends of different games,though you can imrove your skills in life too.

3.The goal in chess is to win,as in life is to enjoy it...and only few or no one can say that starting sth in life you dont wanna succeed in ti..as it counts like winning.

4.As much you know and practise in chess ,as good you are..Life teaches us the same.We have a saying in my country,which says:Ask the one who experinced it,not the one who talks about it.

ANYWAY..Thanks for the comments guys.