How Chess Can Help Soothe Your Post-Election Blues
What chess can offer everybody right now as we prepare—and, quite frankly, rub our eyes in continuous disbelief—for a Donald Trump presidency, is two-fold: a canvas upon which to project your emotions, and an opportunity to engage, with anybody, in dialogue.
If ever there were a boundless tapestry for the emotions boiling around in your bloodstream right now, it’s a chess board. It’s 64 squares of war—sometimes a slow and tedious victory, sometimes a coup, often a hard-fought battle, sometimes a draw. But it’s always, somehow, poetic, even in its most savage moments. Blunders happen, and pieces are left out to dry, hanging; queens, an army’s most powerful piece, are often trapped; kings aren’t killed so much as they are closed in on and left for dead; sacrifices, often, are the name of the game. It’s a bloody, bloody mess, but neat nonetheless.
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