![]() Chess does correspond, in some ways, to what we see in art – it does have a kind of beauty, and the appeal is very strongly aesthetic to those who actually have eyes to see it. It’s interesting that he used the word art. Mikhail Botvinnik, who was world champion on and off from 1948 to 1963, said that if music was “an art that illustrates the beauty of sound”, then chess was “an art that illustrates the beauty of logic”. I don’t think it’s true that chess is a touchstone for the intellect or that it requires an astonishingly logical mind to be very good at it, though it probably helps. It really irritates some of my Russian friends, who say, “What a load of nonsense! It’s just a game.” I’ve always been intrigued by the image chess has in the West as this indicator of extreme, logical intelligence. ![]() Foreign Policy & International Relations. ![]()
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