alt.hn

12/11/2025 at 10:23:24 PM

How Geometry Is Fundamental for Chess

https://lichess.org/@/RuyLopez1000/blog/how-geometry-is-fundamental-for-chess/h31wwhUX

by fzliu

12/12/2025 at 3:46:16 PM

“ Humans are the only animals that we know that understand geometrical concepts. Things like lines and shapes (triangles, squares, circles etc.).”

False.

Crows for example understand geometry. I’d wager there are plenty more.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adt3718

“ These geometrical concepts do not exist in nature. There are no lines and squares. If it's obvious then why did it take 4.5 billion years since the development of life to emerge?”

What makes you think lines and squares don’t exist in nature? And what on earth does that have to do with how long life took to emerge?!

by moi2388

12/12/2025 at 10:27:14 AM

I found this article very interesting.

I would've also appreciated a discussion of how intuition of geometry might apply to chess playing abilities and how it might not be sufficient for playing chess well.

As a side note, I appreciated the small typos as a further signal that this was written by a human.

by plmpsu

12/12/2025 at 8:16:07 AM

Geometry is fundamental, period.

by d4rkn0d3z

12/12/2025 at 8:08:56 AM

If you watch any Hikaru Nakamura content, you will see him draw "classic right angle triangle"s with three pieces, "classic wooden shield"s (a cross showing the scope of a centralized bishop), so he definitely uses some kind of geometry while playing.

Not sure if he just recognizes the shapes as they appear or tries to make them appear, would be nice if he came here to answer.

by nurettin

12/11/2025 at 10:25:40 PM

Someone call Bernard Parharm lmao.

by khelavastr