Chess is a truly hard exploit because you have to constantly and honestly self evaluate your own thinking process and look for thematic patterns among your errors. These errors can be technical or character traits such as things you might desire from a position. It is an exploration of finding yourself and your unconscious desire over the board so much as learning from the endless sea of knowledge. It takes hard motivation and true discipline to be able to learn from this process in a way that will improve your chess and your life as well. This learning process is the true gem and benefit of playing chess but also the hardest practice to master.
Transferring lessons of a single chess game into a lesson that will benefit the rest of your activities and endeavor is an arduous task.
I hope readers will utilize this blog as a way to share wisdom. Perhaps even intellectuals who do not play chess will be able to come here and learn, to paraphrase Josh Waitzkin, about thematic patterns between disciplines. The following video is worth every second so I strongly encourage you to watch it!
I will use all my experiences and activities throughout life to cross-pollinate different ideas to help progress my character and my goals in this world and chess. Perhaps a more existential philosophy blog than your typical chess blog - this however is an even harder goal! Remember there is still logic amid mass chaos!
"One must have chaos within oneself, to give birth to a dancing star" - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Create chaos on the chess board and my strength lay in finding hidden harmonies. I always cultivated being at peace in chaos. Manifest your unique character on the chess board." - Josh Waitzkin
"You try finding out why you're you and not somebody else. And who in the blazes are you anyhow?" - Ezra Pound
This last quote really summarizes what this blog is all about. I take each individual chess game I play as a chance to find out more about me. Rarely are we able to lock ourselves away in a vacuum and analyze our decisions in the same manner that the royal game provides. It is a truly rare chance to find out why you react the way you do in certain scenarios. Do not be fooled into believing these scenarios only occur in chess! They occur in your everyday life as well. It would behoove you to learn your lesson during a gentleman's game where you have no real repercussions (unlike other scenarios such as making a bad tactical or strategical choice with your job, family, friends or future).
I hope readers will contribute comments that will help me build this blog in a positive way! Blogging is a new experience for me.
