Chess Declares the Glory of God

If there is a purer game than chess, I have yet to find it. It is a game of sublime simplicity and confounding complexity. No other game better pits the wits of one human against another. It not only encompasses inductive and deductive logic but includes the whole array of human psychology and emotion; the thrill of winning and the agony of defeat.

You can tell a lot about a person in how they play the game. Do they attack with reckless abandon, or slowly constrict their opponent like a boa, move the pieces with the precision of a surgeon, or create incredible displays of imagination and beauty? All this and more are revealed for all to see in the 32 pieces and 64 squares.

Chess reveals the most profound philosophical questions mankind has ever known, such as the paradox of the one and the many, form and function, and praxis vs. theory. But, ultimately, chess manifests the glory of the one and only self-existing Trinitarian God who has revealed Himself in His self-attesting Bible Without the one true God, chess is impossible.