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The history of chess is a history of metaphors and moral lessons. It emerged in fifth-century India, and wherever it has gone since has been a mirror-image of the world around it, theeconomist.com reports.
Adaptability has been a condition of chess’s long life, and has sometimes proved a game-changer in a deeper sense, theeconomist wrote.
Underlying all this shape-shifting is an essence, an abstract structure of rules and relative powers. Aside from ornamental beauty, it’s this that either gets you hooked or makes you feel, like Montaigne, that you “hate it and avoid it because it is not play enough”. Chess, let’s face it, is mind-boggling, the news service added.
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The history of chess is a history of metaphors and moral lessons. It emerged in fifth-century India, and wherever it has gone since has been a mirror-image of the world around it, theeconomist.com reports.
Adaptability has been a condition of chess’s long life, and has sometimes proved a game-changer in a deeper sense, theeconomist wrote.
Underlying all this shape-shifting is an essence, an abstract structure of rules and relative powers. Aside from ornamental beauty, it’s this that either gets you hooked or makes you feel, like Montaigne, that you “hate it and avoid it because it is not play enough”. Chess, let’s face it, is mind-boggling, the news service added.
For more: https://www.1843magazine.com/style/built-to-last/chess
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