Ouija

Chess Ouija Board

Ouija

I conducted sessions with the chess board in which the chess board functioned as a ouija board. I will refer to it as the Board. I examined the Board and its squares with the alphanumeric coordinates. I was shown meanings attached to certain squares, files, and diagonals. While my information is not complete, it produces a backdrop on which games of chess may be viewed. The meanings can be supported by actual game play in competitive chess. Let me take you on a tour of the Board.

Coordinates

The “North-South” axis of the Board represents Time and is measured numerically (12345678). The “East-West” axis of the Board represents possessions or qualities and is not measured numerically, but rather is labeled alphabetically (abcdefgh). Thus, the board produces a graph of qualities with respect to time. There is a thread of meaning attached to each square throughout all chess games which can be perceived during sessions with the Board.

Checkered Pattern

The most obvious feature of the chess board is the light and dark shading. Right away this suggests realms of greater access to knowledge (light) and realms of hidden knowledge (dark). It is well known that the King’s Bishop likes to possess the long diagonal of the same shade as himself. The Board confirmed the importance of the main diagonals, but it also pointed to another diagonal of great importance: the h6-c1 diagonal. The h6-c1 diagonal is a potential location for the castled white king, and thus it is an avenue for attack. One square of particular importance on the h6-c1 diagonal is g5. It is the Square of Death.

Mortality

Chess is intimately linked with the idea of death. The goal of chess is checkmate, from shah-mat, “the king is dead.” (shah=king, mat=dead) It is not surprising that one of the meanings revealed by the Board is Death.

Pairing

The Board can be divided into two halves: White’s side of the board and Black’s side of the board. Squares occur in pairs of one light and one dark which are located in analogous places on opposite sides. Descriptive Notation is an aid in understanding this. When reflected from one side to the other, the meanings of the squares are either identical or inverse. Thus g5=Death and g4=Life, while e3 and e6 both=Eye. It seems reasonable that there would be two eyes.

Crucial Diagonal

The g5 Death Square and the e3 Eye square both fall on the h6-c1 diagonal. Between them is f4 which represents sadness, paired with f5=happiness.

Primacy of Dark Squares

The e6 Eye, the f5 Square of Happiness and the g4 square of Life fall on the h3-c8 diagonal, which is the inverse of the h6-c1 diagonal. However, the h3-c8 diagonal does not have the same importance. The Board seems to have less to do with light squares and more to do with dark squares. Maybe it would be different for someone else, but the meaning was always stronger to me when viewed through the dark squares.

Crossroads

The f4 square is highly charged. Besides its direct meaning of sadness, it lies on two meaningful diagonals: h6-c1 and b8-h2. As mentioned, h6-c1 contains Death (g5) and one of the Eyes (e3) while b8-h2 contains Poverty (b8), Victimization (c7), the Father’s square (d6), the essential central square e5, and the square representing Earth (g3). (The analogous light square for b8 is Affluence (b1). The c2 square is also Victimization and d3 is White’s Father’s square. I saw no meaning through the Board for g6.)

Planets

I have mentioned meanings for some consecutive squares on the g-file. There is a pattern on the g-file. The g-file symbolizes planets in the inner portion of our Solar System. Thus, g1=Mercury, g2=Venus, g3=Earth, g4=Mars and War and Life and then g5=Death. I saw nothing beyond that.

Foreshadowing

Just as the Board is less about light squares and more about dark squares, it is also less about recording the past and more about hinting at the future. And when it comes to pieces standing on these squares, the Board is less about occupying one’s own side of the board and more about invading the other side, especially with knights. So, to give a concrete example, the Board bears less significance with regard to a white queen on d1 and more significance with regard to a white knight on d6.

Knights

Because the Board best describes the circumstances of invading knights, and because they like to be centralized and to leap forward and sacrifice themselves, the meanings given by the Board are thicker in the center and sparser around the edges. One of the concepts on the central squares is Blood/Bone Marrow. This occurs on the d4-d5 pair. Along with the d3-d6 pair which both represent the respective player’s Father, this indicates that the d-file symbolizes Family.

Files

I asked the Board the meaning of each file. Here is a list of the meanings:

The a file: Land

The b file: Money

The c file: Weapons

The d file: Family

The e file: Body Parts

The f file: ?

The g file: Planets

The h file: Space

The f file remains unclear to me. In fact, I never examined the f2 and f7 squares because I felt they were understood already as thematic weaknesses or shields.

Tangible Differences

I notice a gradient across the Board. The concepts become more abstract on the Kingside and more concrete on the Queenside. It does matter which side of the Board is the Kingside and which side is the Queenside because the meanings are relevant to actual game play.

Wrap-up

That is what I saw through the Board. The sessions were performed purely with my eyes and my thoughts. There was no one else present and no planchette was used.

Questions

Do these concepts resonate with you? Was your father important to you? Do you ponder life and death? At the very minimum, do you live on Earth? I found many concepts are represented on the chess board.

Postscript

Another way of looking at this is to say I found the Major Arcana of the Tarot represented in these ideas. The Minor Arcana matches up with the pieces (such as King and Queen) and pawns.

...seek help... 

This sounds more like a tarot card reading than a ouija board session.

The emoticon you used has dollar signs in its eyes.  I suppose if I sought help from a professional, then I would pay through the nose.  Why would I pay a pro when I could consult my Board for free?

I take this as a compliment, but I remind you there were no tarot cards present.  I simply looked at the empty squares of the Board and thought about the meanings of chess moves.

I found this thread ironically while just looking for images of ouija board themed chess sets -- I figured someone must have made it before.  

Anyhow for OP:  Honestly I can't resonate with any of it, and I do like Tarot and Ouija (at least a bit).  But to me they are still 3 separate things.  You seem to have blended them together, but I'm not seeing a reason to do so.  Besides your own gut-feeling.  Your conclusions may be meaningful for you personally, but I can't see this being meaningful for many other people, even if they like those 3 seprate things.  

Also why did you call it Ouija if Tarot seems the inspiration?  Did I miss the part of how Ouija is actually part of it?  

ChessBloodBathHouse,

When I did my investigation of the meanings of the alphanumeric squares, I had never heard of Tarot cards.  I call it Ouija because I was calling upon the letters and numbers to give meaning associated with Chess action.  The Chess Board functioned as a Ouija Board in giving me information.

This really has nothing to do with Tarot, other than the result that the conclusions drawn seem to line up with Tarot ideas.  

ChessBloodBathHouse, I like your handle.  I feel cleansed.

If you really want a dead chess player to talk to you just buy "My 60 memorable games."  There: any chess forum can be brought round to Fischer.

The impression I'm getting from OP is that you are using it more like Tarot -- people will draw cards and then read into those cards, for deeper meanings, predictions, etc.

That's what OP's idea sounds like re: the chessboard.  You're using the squares like Tarot cards (if I'm understanding OP, which I'm still not sure if I am).  

Re:  Ouija:  I wouldn't call anything "Ouija" unless you were specifically trying to contact spirits to communicate with you.  

Tarot can be used with or without the intention to contact spirits.

I don't think OP is trying to contact ghosts, just to interpret the chessboard similar to how folks interpret Tarot cards.

Is OP trying to contact ghosts?  (Just making sure I'm not missing something.)

Fischer handled his bishops better than the Pope.

There: any chess forum can be brought round to religion.

@ChessBloodBathHouse, What difference does it make whether I am trying to contact spirits?  I am simply stating the meanings of the squares.  When I investigated the Board I had no clue what Tarot was.  Knowing the meanings of the squares gives a foundation of knowledge for any Ouija, Tarot, Chess, or Spirit-contacting activity.

The reason I called it Ouija is because it is a Board.

Ouija boards are used to contact spirits, while tarot cards use the person's abilities (or both?).

I think CBBH is trying to determine whether you're using it more like a ouija board or tarot cards.

Chess uses the person's abilities.  To answer your question, I suppose I am using this system more like Tarot cards.

All spiritual activities have the same nexus.

The beauty of Chess exists in the variations which occur in the players' minds and never appear on the board.  In that vein, there is a spiritual meaning to every position.

Hey, I didn't re-visit this thread till right now.

@ghostofmaroczy:  "What difference does it make whether I am trying to contact spirits?"

What?  lol  I'd think that it's entirely different if you were trying to contact ghosts, or not lol.  (Having read the whole thread now, I don't think you were actually using it that way.)

"I am simply stating the meanings of the squares."  

^It's a cool idea and I don't want to sound like I was slamming it.  I like the concept  of finding/ creating meanings for each square.  I was basically saying that the meanings might sound arbitrary (i.e. meaningful to you in a personal way, but not necessarily something that others would agree with). 

"Knowing the meanings of the squares gives a foundation of knowledge for any Ouija, Tarot, Chess, or Spirit-contacting activity."

OK your interpretations of the squares are interesting but just strike me as arbitrary (not necessarily a bad thing).  I do agree that chess can be interpreted to include everything in life-and-death, including spirituality.  :) 

Sunshiny:  "Ouija boards are used to contact spirits, while tarot cards use the person's abilities (or both?)."

Yep.  Ouija really just means contacting ghosts.  Tarot can be used for contacting ghosts, or Tarot can be used without involving ghosts.  

ghostofmaroczy:  "The beauty of Chess exists in the variations which occur in the players' minds and never appear on the board.  In that vein, there is a spiritual meaning to every position."  

^Agreed.  :)

Every meaning I give is justified by actual Chess game play.

g5 equals death because of the threats made to a knight on f6.

et cetera

When it comes to the planets, I noticed g4 is often an aggressive move like in the Keres Attack or Qg4 in the Winawer Poisoned Pawn.  I associated g4 with war or Mars.  Since Mars is the 4th planet, and the 5th orbit is a destroyed planet I figured the g-file is planets.  g3 is Earth, and so on.

The very first meaning I encountered was g5=Death.  I link many ideas to that.

The justification I gave of a bishop on g5 making a death threat to a knight on f6 is important to me because I consider Nf6 to be the staple of every Black position.

Hi ghostly ,,,keep away from ouiji boards. Ask Edgar Cayce. Greetings from the friendly ghost CASPER in Aussie land say gooday to Monsieur Pierre ,,,J'aime tres bien mercie. Ronneee,,,eeeeeeeeee

Word of caution about Ouija boards  they can be any surface including a chess board. The Human body especially the brain responds to frequencies ( high or low ) Deceased entities are discarnates ( energy without a body ) Ouija attracts uncontrolled communication for discarnates that have no other way of entering the Earth realm apart from contact with a novice playing "contact with the spirits ".    Most of these discarnates are from lower realms wanting embodiment ....DO NOT BE A SUCKER for them. to use your energy body  and finally take control of your entire life . You become 'them" with their appetites ( drink, sex, etc )             A better way is to be with the light ... use meditation ..raise your frequency levels so contact with higher entities is possible and with NO MALICE involvement . Actually you are very articulate and your right brain hemisphere is enhanced so you are functioning with a " full brain capacity "    Darkness is an issue with you . NO ONE can hurt you if you emphatically state you want them OUT of your body and life. Sagittarius has an issue with NEPTUNE and sustenance abuse but they are very PSYCHIC.    Psychic means ultra sensitive... alcoolics are supersensitive and psychic. WELL its sometimes in the mitochondria of your DNA ..you are meant to have this experience in this incarnation on Earth.

Your tarot rederences are very interesting . They are good. You do reveal a lot of hidden chess tactics for the astute reader. You dont need ouija trouble ghosty .......be in control of your mind and body ....you have been privilidged to enter Earth in this Century so why let discarnates to mar your destiny and mind.  Tell the entities to PISS off . You can reach HIGHER INSIGHTS into the REALMS of the GODS with your enhanced right brain. Where answers will pop into your consciousness without effort . ANY CHESS ANSWERS right into your dreaming  

Cool, thanks for explaining.  (I'm only just revisiting this thread again; I'm not very active on this forum, I just play a lot of turn-based chess.)

I do like the whole approach better now that I know you had reasons for each meaning you gave to each square. 

At some point I will have to look more into the meanings you mentioned.

Like I've already said, the approach itself (of looking for meanings of the squares) seems very interesting and promising.