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Right. Goddesschess, one of my 3 favourite chess websites, http://www.goddesschess.com 
has a contrary view of Chess as game of goddess, based on subversion of that tradition that engined humanity for 100,000 years. However, I tend to view chess as in fact war sublimated from the very beginning of CVPage with this work,
http://www.chessvariants.org/fiction.dir/poems/falcon.html. Here there are ''war-words,'' ''swords'' and ''halcyon stand-off'' in fear of war, and ''Sport'' which is also civilized war, and ''rituals of place and power'' for war and politics. Let's take them one by one, the categories, first with Terrain. Terrain has three components, Earth, Water, and Air. Atmosphere, physicists point out, is not ''up there'' but down here on account of gravity. So it's all-terrain all-out war through three media at least.
''Magnificent. Compared to war all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so.'' --General George Patton
http://www.military-quotes.com/Patton.htm