On the other hand, the Catholics have a patron saint of Chess. https://www.chessmaniac.com/saint-teresa-of-avila-patron-saint-of-chess/ https://www.chessmaniac

On the other hand, the Catholics have a patron saint of Chess. https://www.chessmaniac.com/saint-teresa-of-avila-patron-saint-of-chess/ https://www.chessmaniac.com/saint-teresa-of-avila-patron-sai... In which I found an old familiar anecdote: “There is an anecdote that Charles Borromeo, Bishop of Milan, was playing chess among friends and someone asked what would they do if they were just told that they were about to die and that Christ was at hand for Judgment Day. One person said he would start praying. Another said he would go straight to confession. A third person said he would rush off to church and prostate himself before the Blessed Sacrament. But Charles replied that he would continue his game of chess, for that he begun it for the glory of God, and should continue it for the same end; whatever was done with a single view to God was a holy and meritorious act.”