Episode 248: Checkmate, Grasshopper
Very Bad Wizards
Is Chess a Game?
I argue that chess is not a game because it lacks a prelucery goal. Chess consequently has more in common with mathematics and physics that it has in common with darts sprints and lawn bowling. I never quite know when something is metaphysics, but the idea of games exists as a game then it's making an ontological claim so it isn't explicit. It's like someone took a discussion in a Tarantino film unlike it exactly and had a whole metaphysical debate about it uh or are are is this metaphysics?
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