The Transformative Essay: The Sport Of Chess

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Chess, a strategic game played between two people, calls for many different pieces that represent people on a battlefield ("Chess Pieces”). The board being played on, which has a checkerboard pattern, is the “battlefield.” Every piece on the board is in the “battle.” The fact that all the pieces on a chessboard are in battle shares a common idea that all the people on the earth are in the battle; one single piece or person does not go into battle by its lonesome self. One metaphor that refers to chess is “after the game, the kind and the pawn go into the same box.” Likewise, in life, people on each end of the spectrum are all put into the same box; a coffin in the ground (“A Chess Proverb”). In chess, the king is the most powerful piece,