Yes, according to the great Freudian chess player Reuben Fine <a href="http://www.librarything.com/catalog/228949">http://www.librarything.com/catalog/228949</a><br><br>But if your read Alex Cockburn (Idle Passions), George Steiner, Vlad Nabokov and Krogius
<br><a href="http://www.librarything.com/catalog/897990">http://www.librarything.com/catalog/897990</a><br><br>And then there is the counter -hegemonic view of Marylin Yalom in "Birth of the Chess Queen" who makes an historical and psychological argument for why the Queen is the strongest piece on the board.
<br><br>Personally, my belief is that chess is <span style="font-style: italic;">about</span> geometry and spatial computation, and male chauvinism in chess is <span style="font-style: italic;">about</span> exclusion of women from the traditional male enclaves of coffee houses, male clubs, and intellectual battlefields.
<br><br>JM<br><br><br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/5/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Doug Henwood</b> <<a href="mailto:dhenwood@panix.com">dhenwood@panix.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Because it's all about killing the king, no? Or is that too obvious?<br><br>Doug<br>___________________________________<br><a href="http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk">http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk
</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Jerry Monaco's Philosophy, Politics, Culture Weblog is<br>Shandean Postscripts to Politics, Philosophy, and Culture<br><a href="http://monacojerry.livejournal.com/">
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