How would you define chess??

How would you define chess??

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Enigma

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I'm in a light hearted mood tonight. So here is a fun one:
How would you describe chess? I would label it:

"A really interesting, sadistic little game"

Would any other lables fit? )πŸ™‚

DF
Lord of all beasts

searching for truth

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Chess is war!

s

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it's an art

F

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It's a duel of brains.

s

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Simple, yet infinately complicated

M

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By it's rules.

m

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interesting, addictive and too easy to make a blunder..

lol

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Curb Your Enthusiasm

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Originally posted by Mephisto2
By it's rules.
ah but punctuation has rules too ... and your sentence is still understandable despite breaking them ... so perhaps chess can't be defined by rules after all?

anyhoo chess is a game I think. It's about winning and losing.


http://streathambrixtonchess.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-is-chess.html

Follow the link above for a bunch of quotes from better known people than myself

d

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it should be art. I cannot put it in any other category.

V

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Originally posted by diskamyl
it should be art. I cannot put it in any other category.
I think it's an art, science and sport. πŸ™‚

Black Beastie

Scheveningen

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The Royal Game! You face a War you may win if your Techniques become an ArtπŸ™‚

c

USA

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Chess; noun-
"a game played by two persons, each with 16 pieces, on a chessboard" πŸ˜€

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Hollow earth

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Brutal

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St. Paul, Minnesota

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Great fun, brilliant and merciless. More complicated than I could ever imagine.

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SelfProclaimedTitler

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Heh. It's synthesis of various disciplines.
Art + intellect + sport + game + geometry + bla + bla + bla = chess.

Therefore I came with the conclusion = I would define chess as chess. It is art but it is not music, it's not painting nor monumental architectal masterpiece, it is not literar masterpiece, it is not movie, it is not sculpture. It's CHESS !! πŸ˜›

Chess, chess, chess, of chess, too much of chess πŸ™„ I can not stand that much of chess anymore, please, a little break. Chess chess chess 😡

😞