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“Chess is life in miniature.”
- Garry Kimovich Kasparov (1963 — ); Russian writer, political activist; ranked #1 in chess for 255 months
The Judeo-Christian interpretation of cosmic events can be likened to chess, a fascinating game of infinite variation and complexity.
There are white and black pieces representing lightness and darkness.
And there will be a similar outcome in that one side will ultimately prevail.
White — the combination of all colors — will vanquish black — the absence of color.
Many, perhaps most, analogies are imperfect.
In chess, the pawn is assigned an arbitrary relative value of 1, a bishop or knight a value of 3 and a castle or rook a value of 5. The queen is valued at 10. The king, her consort, is of greatest value.
When he is checkmated, the game is over.
My understanding is that, in the celestial realm, the Almighty is of infinite value; angels are lesser but still greater than man, who might be arbitrarily assigned a value of 1. But, as our founding fathers envisioned, all men are created equal (however, British writer George Orwell observed, in “Animal Farm,” with animals some are more equal than others).
