Categorie: Schaken

In het boek “The Grandmaster” over de match om het Wereldkampioenschap tussen Carlsen en Karjakin in New York 2016 van Brian Jonathan Butler, las ik het volgende fragment over de “duurzaamheid” van het schaakspel:

“It’s not an accident that chess has been one of the most durable things humanity has created in the last fifteen hundred years. Think of all the precious, cherished things people have lost in that time along the way to the present: languages, religions, civilizations, entire bloodlines, endless artifacts, and countless stories cast into a common darkness. How did something so seemingly trivial as chess prove so much more durable and immune to the friction and chaos of history? Any child can learn the basics in minutes, yet no human mind will ever be capable of solving it any more than an abacus has a prayer of measuring a black hole.”