The Philosophy of Chess

              Why chess? Because chess is an interesting game, that's why. At it's core it represents duality at it's finest. A checkered board of 64 squares and 32 peaces (16 on each side) with 32 squares of space between them. Traditionally you have you have both dark and light squares and peaces. The peaces themselves are mirror image reflections of the corresponding peaces on the other side of the board. Side by side the king and queen rain over their haft of the board with a ranking system of descending peaces playing out their respective roles. The Bishops representing the clergy, the knights the military and rooks being the homestead rule, while the pawns or the presents take the brunt of abuse by the lining the walls outside. Here we have our cast of players, destine to do a dance of destruction that can only end in three possible outcomes. Win, lose or draw.

They say a perfect game between two equal opponents should usually end in a draw, the best of which is were all the peaces but the kings are off the board and the king peaces left are about one square away from each other. Here are where the lines of duality start to blur and transcendence can occur. The light and dark kings had no more moves left, only to look at the opposition remains, and then the retaliation comes, there is no opposition! Only the reflection of oneself, and the space between being the consciousness of that retaliation. Forming two seemingly different halves to subjectively experience the whole. So as duality destroys itself, unity consciousness is revealed.