Chess Metaphors

How the moves of thirty-two chess pieces over sixty-four squares can help us understand the workings of the mind.

When we play the ancient and noble game of chess, we grapple with ideas about honesty, deceitfulness, bravery, fear, aggression, beauty, and creativity, which echo (or allow us to depart from) the attitudes we take in our daily lives. Chess is an activity in which we deploy almost all o...