All Philosophical Systems Are Intellectual Exercises, Like a Good Game of Chess.

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Grandmaster Hans Ree writes weekly about chess. This week: chess and poetry, an inexhaustible subject. From the Persian poet Omar Khayyam, who wrote that king and pawn ultimately end up in the same box, to Jorge Luis Borges, who mused on the endlessness of time, matter, and the gods behind the chess gods.