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In chess the actual pieces are irrelevant, only the outcome...checkmate...matters.
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jamesnyman wrote:
In chess the actual pieces are irrelevant, only the outcome...checkmate...matters.
Without (unequally) ranked pieces, an outcome of checkmate cannot be achieved. Can it?
So I think a Zen chess game might play out as:
1) Players look across room at board and box of pieces.
2) Players turn to each other, knowingly, and nod.
3) Tea is served.
-Darren.
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Harry wrote:
once in the box
every one of them is equal -
the chess pieces
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Besides (and it pains me to say this):
In the box: They are equal...
On the board: They are not...
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I'm not sure he was overly concerned with chess. He was a poor, wandering poet who had a far from easy life, yet his poems often empathize with those worse off than himself:
drizzling...
tapping a large rice bowl
deaf-mute beggar
a withering wind -
seated in the falling dusk
a street minstrel
heat shimmer...
lingering in the eye
a laughing face
The last one is particularly poignant when we consider that all his children died in infancy, and that he outlived all his wives.
Oh, and a particularly astute one:
oh, don't swat!
the fly rubs hands
rubs feet*
(*i.e. it prays twice as much; with both hands and feet)
Regards,
Harry.
Last edited by Harry (2007-02-20 06:10:23)
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Zen in Zazen - Fly Rubs feet.
Zen in Zazen - Rook to defeat
Zen in Zazen - Mind in retreat
Zen in Zazen - This is boring, let's eat.
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