{"id":51557,"date":"2023-11-17T12:18:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T11:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=51557"},"modified":"2023-11-17T12:18:12","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T11:18:12","slug":"playing-chess-across-space-and-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/playing-chess-across-space-and-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing Chess Across Space and Time"},"content":{"rendered":"The chessboard can be a space for intimacy and development. A musing on the deeper potentials of this ancient game and the nuances of its present popularity in the digital sphere, inspired by an encounter with the game in the country of Georgia.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe morning after an overnight flight to the Youth Section conference in Georgia, I found myself connecting with members of the local Youth Society Parzival over a game of chess. The board was set up under a large canopy strung off the back of the schoolhouse. A large group was content to hide from the sun, chatting, drinking coffee, and watching a game slowly unfold. With the exception of a few smartphones, I realized that a similar scene may have been enacted for hundreds of years: connection across cultures over the simple game of chess.\n<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to keep reading? We're pleased to present our Summer 2026 offer, valid until August 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/subscribe\/\"> three months of free access <\/a> \u2013 cancel anytime.\r\n<br><br>\r\nIf you're already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log in here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chessboard can be a space for intimacy and development. A musing on the deeper potentials of this ancient game and the nuances of its present popularity in the digital sphere, inspired by an encounter with the game in the country of Georgia. The morning after an overnight flight to the Youth Section conference in Georgia, I found myself connecting with members of the local Youth Society Parzival over a game of chess. The board was set up under a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17162,"featured_media":51558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9168,8809],"tags":[8814],"class_list":["post-51557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-sciences","category-digital-world","tag-musings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}