Saturday, September 09, 2006

Socratic Chess

"An unexamined game is not worth playing."

A movement in chess can be a considered a good move at one point in time but a poor movement at another. No move is always good, but only good in the scope of its position and surroundings. Some moves are more often good and others more often poor based on a common theory, the original setup of the board or a string of thoughts and moves from an individuals mind. Like in life their is no law of good moves or bad, of right and wrong. The complexities are so extraordinary that we go through life valuing one idea over another much the same as one values the knight over the bishop, only to learn through experiences later that you were mistaken . This process of judgment continues on throughout a lifetime getting ever closer but never concluding a "law of chess moves."

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