The game of chess has a long-winded history, taking the game from the royal Indian courts where the game evolved into two major types of chess, international chess, and Chinese chess.
The game itself has a rather bloody and macabre history. In ancient times, instead of going to war, kings and princes fought over chess of game which was played on a large open lawn with slaves or prisoners as the chess pieces. Macabre as, instead of removing a chess piece, essentially the slave, when the piece is taken, the taken slave or prisoner is slaughtered.
The Chess Theory
The Chess Theory that I am going to impart is not the theory on how to play chess. Far from it, as I had left the game far too long to be able to play it properly.
But rather, the chess theory is essentially about the perception of the truth that one’s gets to see as one sees it from his or her position.
Let me explain.
The Board, Chess Pieces and Their Functions
Every chess board consists of a board with boxes to represent the positions that the chess pieces can move on. The boxes in a way define the distances that a piece can move.
A game of chess consists of one King, one Queen, two Bishops, two Knights, two Rooks/Ministers, and eight pawns on each side. Each chess piece has a distinctive movement pattern, defined by how they are allowed to move across the board and has different value to each player, depending on the situation in the game.
The most important chess piece is the King. It can move in any direction on the board, provided the box is not being targeted by the opposing force. Pieces are sacrificed to make sure that the King survives. If the King falls, then it is all over. But the King can only move one step in any direction. It is vulnerable. In other words, while the King is important, he is surrounded by people far more powerful that sometimes restrict the King’s view of the world or situation.
The Queen is the most powerful piece. It can move anywhere as far as it is allowed on the board. But it is expendable even to protect the King.
The Rook or Minister and the Bishop have a similar philosophy. The Rooks either move forward or move sideways. While the Bishop moves diagonally across the Board.
The weakest of all pieces is the Pawn. It can only move forward, either a step or two. It is used either as a sacrificial pawn or to create barriers.
But even barriers can’t prevent the move of the Knight. They can jump over the barrier created by the Pawns.
The movements of these chess pieces are like our worldview. People attending the same event, and observing the same event will have different perceptions of the event, all because of our worldview. Hence, what we perceive as untruth, might not be untruth but rather a different degree of the truth.
Nearly every one of us will start out as a Pawn in our life. And the Pawn, as it reaches the end of the Board, it gets to be promoted to either a Queen, a Bishop, a Rook/Minister, or a Knight. So too for us in our journey in this life. That we shall mature into these pieces. Except for being the King.
But even the King is not the master of its fate. As the master of the board is still the Chess Master.
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