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Maybe queens and bishops, not pawns. But I think you have it backwards. Chess was created to teach tactics and politics, was it not (at least apocryphally)?
by legutierr 14y ago
Maybe queens and bishops, not pawns.
But I think you have it backwards. Chess was created to teach tactics and politics, was it not (at least apocryphally)? This way of thinking may be where chess came from, rather than the other way around.
- skrebbel 14y agoGood point! Still, I don't know which is scarier. The fact that even some HN'ers consider countries and peoples things to be molded and manipulated for the country's good, or the fact that this kind of thinking has been such a common idea for so long that a popular game was modeled after it.