{"id":29042,"date":"2016-01-23T12:25:21","date_gmt":"2016-01-23T11:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.burks.de\/burksblog\/?p=29042"},"modified":"2016-01-23T12:25:21","modified_gmt":"2016-01-23T11:25:21","slug":"chess-is-gloriously-rebellious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.burks.de\/burksblog\/2016\/01\/23\/chess-is-gloriously-rebellious","title":{"rendered":"Chess is gloriously rebellious"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Der Guardian<\/a> hat einen ganz entz\u00fcckenden Artikel \u00fcber Schach mit ebensolchen Zitaten \u00fcber das k\u00f6nigliche Spiel:<\/p>\n

The real attraction of chess is that the board is a simulacrum of life, where intense battles can be fought with no casualties, where the rules and objectives are clear, where neat geometric certainties replace messy realities. (…)<\/p>\n

Raymond Chandler called the game: \u201cThe most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.\u201d (…)<\/p>\n

Perhaps this is what the mufti really fears: chess players are natural rebels who have rejected the workaday world and all its totems.<\/i><\/p>\n

Das Foto zeigt eine Stellung aus der Partie zwischen Wilhelm Steinitz<\/a> und dem Berliner Curt von Bardeleben<\/a>, Hastings 1895. Schachfreunde wissen, was jetzt kommt.<\/p>\n

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