Why Chess?
So why chess I hear (well I don't hear you cry, I don't hear you at all, this is a rhetorical question to begin this blog post). Why chess? Why do I keep posting about chess. It's not like I'm any good at it. But I do enjoy playing it even in defeat there is a satisfaction in knowing that you could have played the game better and maybe next time you will. It's a simple game. With immense amount of complexity. 16 pieces on a board of 64 squares. A game with history, played throughout the world, in many cultures. One of the joys of life is to sit in front of a chess board with fellow chess players and play a game. Whether it be blitz or longer time controls, or shorter time controls. The world is shut off for that brief period of time you have set a side. A kind of meditation then? For me it probably was and remains so. Online its a bit different. Contending with the constant interruptions removes some of the meditative aspect. However you are more conne...