🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Sun, Jun 26, 2016 11:30 AM UTC:
Speaking as an expert in morality, a Philosophy Ph.D. with an emphasis on ethics, I daresay that a game like this would trivialize morality. Morality is about real-life situations, and the arbiter of morality is reality, not a so-called expert who gets to decide whether you will move in a game. Before people could play such a game, they would have to agree on who to accept as experts. Although moral truth is not a subjective matter, it is not a subject met with univeral agreement, and it is one on which people sometimes strongly and sometimes violently disagree. Besides being computer-resistant, this game would be human-resistant.
Knightmare Chess involves intuition and ingenuity. It is not mere randomness like throwing dice to determine which pieces to move. It is the closest a Chess variant gets to Calvinball without losing structure.
Speaking as an expert in morality, a Philosophy Ph.D. with an emphasis on ethics, I daresay that a game like this would trivialize morality. Morality is about real-life situations, and the arbiter of morality is reality, not a so-called expert who gets to decide whether you will move in a game. Before people could play such a game, they would have to agree on who to accept as experts. Although moral truth is not a subjective matter, it is not a subject met with univeral agreement, and it is one on which people sometimes strongly and sometimes violently disagree. Besides being computer-resistant, this game would be human-resistant.
Knightmare Chess involves intuition and ingenuity. It is not mere randomness like throwing dice to determine which pieces to move. It is the closest a Chess variant gets to Calvinball without losing structure.