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[sepherania]

There is something alluring about a chess set, much like the sound of cards being shuffled, that draws strangers to hurl wits and skill against another player. Chess is a game that has existed for longer than history can remember, yet no one knows exactly where it started. With simple rules that are easy to learn and the most rudimentary of pieces

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[superslash]

Chess seems to me to be a game of rigid rules and customs, it's nature both held up and at the same time held back by it's almost religious formality. When I watch chess I feel as though I am looking at the light of a day already lived.

Some cultures believe that a camera steals a small part of a persons soul whenever it takes a picture, has the soul of chess been pressed thin under the weight of ages it bears?