What is the meaning of chess?
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Sometimes I wonder that does chess have a meaning. Do anyone else have that feeling?
If you spent this much time thinking during a game rather than about the game, imagine what sort of player you could become.
A couple parts to this
Chess, to me, is the ultimate puzzle. It’s a puzzle that is trying to solve you before you solve it.
Pretty much everyone has a battle of their own mind/ego. Chess brings this inner battle to life for us to see.
There have been countless times where I’ve been trash talked and mocked during or after games. This is the ego being projected outward onto the opponent.
Ultimately chess is a game where the pieces get reset and it starts over.
I find peace in this and remind myself when I start taking the game too seriously. Chess has become somewhat of an addiction for me. I play 10+ games a day. Sometimes I feel peaceful, patient and content, other times I feel aggressive and aggravated, and sometimes I feel tired and foggy. Chess is there for every state of being we decide to play in and this makes it that much more of a challenge. It gives it that much more dimension.
To judge a player on a single game or a series of games reflects our own judgements of ourselves, and this self awareness is a powerful tool. In this way our relationship with chess can illuminate the relationship we have with ourself.
When I look at players stats there is a common theme of ups and downs, wins and losses. On average every player has close to 50% wins and 50% losses which means no matter what level someone is, we all share roughly the same 50/50 split.
This leads me to believe that chess is the perfect neutral playing field.
Sometimes we are on point, sometimes we are foggy. Sometimes every move we make falls perfectly into place and other times every move we make is a mistake.
Sometimes we’re down a significant amount of pieces and turn the game around, sometimes we have the game turned on us.
Chess has many meanings to me and has enriched my life in many ways. It’s my favorite board game in the world and I’m grateful there is a large community supporting it.
Chess brings together all walks of life from all corners of the world. It’s like a universal language that brings us together. It is the potential to foster new friendships or new rivals.
Most importantly it gives us a mirror into our own minds.
It’s a game that we will win at and lose at, but the game will never end unless we decide to stop playing.
The meaning of chess evolves as we evolve. What do you love about it? What do you hate about it? What do you want from it? To be a good player? To connect with community? To humiliate the opponent? To learn from the opponent? To expand your awareness of the board and expand the awareness of yourself and your life around you?
Chess is powerful.
Chess, to me, is the ultimate puzzle. It’s a puzzle that is trying to solve you before you solve it.
Pretty much everyone has a battle of their own mind/ego. Chess brings this inner battle to life for us to see.
There have been countless times where I’ve been trash talked and mocked during or after games. This is the ego being projected outward onto the opponent.
Ultimately chess is a game where the pieces get reset and it starts over.
I find peace in this and remind myself when I start taking the game too seriously. Chess has become somewhat of an addiction for me. I play 10+ games a day. Sometimes I feel peaceful, patient and content, other times I feel aggressive and aggravated, and sometimes I feel tired and foggy. Chess is there for every state of being we decide to play in and this makes it that much more of a challenge. It gives it that much more dimension.
To judge a player on a single game or a series of games reflects our own judgements of ourselves, and this self awareness is a powerful tool. In this way our relationship with chess can illuminate the relationship we have with ourself.
When I look at players stats there is a common theme of ups and downs, wins and losses. On average every player has close to 50% wins and 50% losses which means no matter what level someone is, we all share roughly the same 50/50 split.
This leads me to believe that chess is the perfect neutral playing field.
Sometimes we are on point, sometimes we are foggy. Sometimes every move we make falls perfectly into place and other times every move we make is a mistake.
Sometimes we’re down a significant amount of pieces and turn the game around, sometimes we have the game turned on us.
Chess has many meanings to me and has enriched my life in many ways. It’s my favorite board game in the world and I’m grateful there is a large community supporting it.
Chess brings together all walks of life from all corners of the world. It’s like a universal language that brings us together. It is the potential to foster new friendships or new rivals.
Most importantly it gives us a mirror into our own minds.
It’s a game that we will win at and lose at, but the game will never end unless we decide to stop playing.
The meaning of chess evolves as we evolve. What do you love about it? What do you hate about it? What do you want from it? To be a good player? To connect with community? To humiliate the opponent? To learn from the opponent? To expand your awareness of the board and expand the awareness of yourself and your life around you?
Chess is powerful.