Check out Janggi (Korean Chess), our featured variant for December, 2024.


[ Help | Earliest Comments | Latest Comments ]
[ List All Subjects of Discussion | Create New Subject of Discussion ]
[ List Earliest Comments Only For Pages | Games | Rated Pages | Rated Games | Subjects of Discussion ]

Single Comment

Poems on Falcon Chess: Chess Morality XI: Pleiadic Dialogue. Missing description[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
📝George Duke wrote on Tue, Feb 6, 2018 09:52 PM UTC:

Carlos Alberto Colodro's current article reprises symbolism of Lewis Caroll's contribution to Chess literature in fantasy and allegory of 'Through the Looking Glass'.  The first sentence mentions Borges: https://en.chessbase.com/post/lewis-carroll-y-su-alicia-jugando-al-ajedrez-por-sergio-negri-2018.  Jorge Luis Borges' "The Chess Player" introduces this Morality XI too.  Each piece of seven is associated in different moralities with, in turn, solar system bodies, animals, birds, days of week, metals, Wonders -- sets of 'seven' somehow being a popular way to organize the cosmos down through philosophy and religion.

Greek mythology has the Pleiades as daughters of Pleione and Atlas. Pleiades.

Here the seven sisters of mythology, Pleiades, conduct dialogue, each representing a Chess piece with unique perspective.  The actual stellar Pleiades of constellation Taurus have had their major stars named specifically after the same goddesses.