While moving pieces over a chess board I find similarities between the movements in life and concepts of chess. These are real experiences I undergo both in life and over chessboard. I also like to dream about a new way of life where movements are more similar. When chess is a completely solved game, we may need to find out another game, a game for the future. This weblog belongs to that search process! A continous search!

Thursday, December 22, 2005

Double isolated pawn (version 5)

There is a poem by Tagore where he said: "a couple in love is more lonely than a single"....I can't recollect the exact poem or writing but Tagore truly wrote something very similar to that.

I have also read it elsewhere similar ideas....a smooth writer said very similar stuff...Probably in some movies...

Double isolated pawns are like that...They are very weak as a combined force compared to a single isolated pawn..Specially the pawn behind, that's really weak. There isn't much use of the pawn behind..Relatively speaking, it probably doesn't matter for the pawn infront whether the pawn behind exists or not, doesn't have much sense of its presence! Similar is the feeling for pawn behind, may be worse feeling. Pawn infront is a bottleneck for him/her since its not possible to move at all if he/she doesn't move!

However, the most important point here to understand why is a couple in love so lonely? Are they lonely because they will be more complete staying alone? Because they are trying to fix each other's loneliness what they can't fix? This way they are making themselves more lonely?

Another possibility is that their detachment from the rest of the universe (due to their deep love, of course) make them more isolated compare to others not in that situation. This definitely makes sense to me!

I don't remember the exact logic of Tagore (or the the European writer), but that's what come to my mind right now!

But as a combined force the system looks to them as a weak combination. That's so similar to the look of the poet Tagore..Exactly the same way he looked at a couple in love! Did he know about this double isolated pawn concept? I guess no! I doubt that he had that much time to play chess. I heard from another poet (Byron) that: "Life is too short for chess", I guess Tagore might have similar views on chess too, no clue though!

Interesting is that one can get the same feeling and derive the same concept in so many different ways without knowing each others understanding!

1 Comments:

Blogger Kele Panchu said...

Very interesting question!

4:15 PM

 

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