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 connected, the challenge more varied and the community of chess players understand how difficult the game is. 

You see the game of chess depicted in many forms. Particularly in the original Star Trek where a 3D variant was introduced by Spock. Harry Potter and the phylosophers stone depicted chess in an animated form. James Bond movies have occasionally depicted chess in various forms.