Harmony in Chess - History repeats!
" Some sort of pressure must exist; the artists exist because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn't look for harmony but would simply live in it. Art is born out of an ill-designed world " - Andrei Tarkovsky Chess is an art.....and imperfection is its art! .....and it is the duty of a Chess master to look for harmony amidst the chaos....spontaneously......and not look for certainty through his excessive ...... As Alexandra Horowitz wrote...." One trouble with being human - with the human condition - is that, as with many conditions, you cannot turn it off. Even as we develop from relatively immobile, helpless infants into mobile, autonomous adults, we are more and more constrained by the ways we learn to see the world ." The challenge lies in how we emancipate ourselves from the deluge of 'knowledge' that is staring at us....rendering us dazed....immobile or turn us into morons and