The Broken Board

Chess seems to be a dying game of strategy. Yeah you can find the niches that play constantly and at a level you can probably never reach, but it's essence. The idea of sitting across from a stranger in a park and matching wits only happens in select cities. Even as millions of people pour into coffee houses and tea houses on a daily basis they seem to want to jump in and out as fast as possible. The seats could be packed, not a space to sit among large sofas and chairs that have so much padding the arm rests come up to your chin, and on the rare occasion that they have a chess set it is always unused due to lack of pieces, or a black and red folding chess board that has 1/4th of the squares torn away. So I should re phrase my statement chess is not a dying game of strategy. It will always be there in some form or another. But even though chess is the most played game on yahoo, with thousands of players on at any given time, it will still be dying in a sense. That feeling of antiquity and austerity you imagine when you where younger, and that feeling of passion for the act of moving pieces for the goal of defeating a foe, not just stealing pieces and clicking a mouse. And on that note, I found a great chess site, Schemingmind.com.