People compare life to chess, that can work... for a while. You may think the world is the board and everything you have are your pieces. We like to think we have a really neat and simple ladder of priorities for everything, just like chess. All in all, we think we know the rules, there goes the difference.
People that plays life like chess are bound to rules, to simplicity. The basic problem with chess and using it as a life cycle procedure is the fact that the rules are out of the player hands, in the real world the rules are there, for you.
It is said by great players that you have to play making the other player feel, and believe, that you have two kings. You make him hunt you, make him run, for a false king. And for most of the time the king lies in the other pieces, in the pawns and horses altogether.
Sadly the strategy stands as long as the rules let you, which at the ends depends only in the shade of deception, for the pieces have to be different. Life on the other hand is all about kings and queens, the more kings you have the harder is for the enemy to finish the game, yet with every kill he grows stronger.
You need to have two kings and one of them will never know he's a king, until he has to. That's why I don't compare life to anything related with chess, for if you do so then you don't have to play the game, but play your opponent.
1 comment:
It's simpler than that. Chess is a resolved game. For every situation, no matter who are the players, there is always the perfect move.
The problem with chess is that there is no human brain or computer able to calculate that move.
The problem with life is that there are billions of brains that aren't able to calculate even the more simple moves.
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