Chess is like life. Whether the game and pieces represent war, court society, or the world at large, in a general way and simply seen, the game has come to symbolize the world and human activity. This metaphor comes down from the thirteenth century when Jacob de Cessolis, a Dominican friar in the Lombard region of Italy, delivered a sermon based on the game. The sermon was so well received that his fellow friars insisted he write it out. His "Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobelium" ("Book of the Manners of Men and the Offices of the Nobility"), now simply called "The Book of Chess,"...
Chess is like life. Whether the game and pieces represent war, court society, or the world at large, in a general way and simply seen, the game has co...